The British adventurer returned home after 28 years of walking around the world

After walking 30,000 miles from Chile to England for 28 years, adventurer Carl Bushby swam the English Channel and feasted on fish and chips.

British man came close to walking around the world

Adventurer Carl Bushby has finally set foot on British soil after 28 years of traveling around the world.

On October 5, he announced that he had swum the English Channel from France to England. While relaxing in Dover, he said: "I'm staring at the Union Jack flying outside this hotel. I've seen a lot of flags over the course of the day, but that one is special."

She took to social media to share one of her first meals, as she was delighted to be eating British fish and chips again.

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His journey is not over yet. He hopes to reach the finish line - his mother's house in Hull - by the end of the month.

According to his website, he received a birthday card from his father in the 1990s about two soldiers arguing over an impossible feat, walking from London to New York through the Bering Strait. Carl picked up a map and drew a line, knowing he had found his life's mission.

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Bushby is shown driving through Dover, England, on October 9 as he begins the final 250-mile leg of his 28-year journey.

On November 1, 1998, the former skydiver began his journey in Chile, with only a few hundred dollars in his pocket, said Bushby: "South America, you were young, everything was new, it was a boy's dream of adventure."

He headed north to the United States, waiting for the Bering Strait to freeze over to cross from Alaska to Russia in April 2012, when Russia refused his next visa and halted his trip. So he started walking the wrong way to the Russian Embassy in Washington DC in protest. The ban was lifted and he continued his journey. From Russia, he entered Mongolia, China and swam the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan.

"You see you're much more capable than you think, people underestimate themselves all the time," says Bushby. "The world always seems bigger and scarier than it is."

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Bushby passed through Cameron, North Carolina in 2014 during his tour of the United States. (Megan Moore/Washington Post)

He originally expected the journey to take 12 years, but visa restrictions, the 2008 financial crash, COVID-19, geopolitics, detention and some close calls slowed his progress. He says it was the people who kept him.

"The world is an incredible place, and it's the people, the strangers I've met along the way, that have kept me going," Bushby said.

Bushby has approximately 240 miles left to walk. He traveled more than 30,000 miles in 29 countries. "We went at a reasonable pace, we did what we had to do and it paid off. I know it's time to stop, I know it because I can feel it in my knees and ankles."