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For Twenty Eight years, East Yorkshire’s Karl Bushby has been walking thousands of miles across continents from Chile, experiencing unforgettable moments and challenges. He returned to his home city of Hull on Monday, and here’s just some of his many reflections on the people he met travelling.

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00:00so many stories i mean people who would drive eight hours down the road complete strangers to
00:04find me and feed me um people who are taking me into their homes and have been very sick and
00:09have nursed me back to health and and you'll get it from the poorest of the poor i haven't people
00:15pulling me off the road they live in shacks built from car parts uh and all you know they just
00:21have
00:21to give you a bowl of rice and some water and talk to you on on the sides of the
00:25roads in the
00:25deserts of peru somewhere to hotel owners with more money than they know to do with um or just
00:32wanted to hear stories wanted to sit and talk um you know i remember being walking through the
00:39deserts in patagonia sorry in um the atacama desert and there's big long you know hundreds of kilometer
00:46stretches and and in chile for example one big road route five and everyone gets to know you on that
00:53road and then trucks are passing by and there's bottles of water just getting chucked out the cab
00:57window into the desert in front of me oranges and stuff and then another truck will throw throw some
01:02water out so i have this rolling support network i don't even know these people are they've never
01:07stopped to say anything but they just kept me fed and kept me warden through these dead things like
01:11that um and that would happen throughout the world uh so the world is has been my support network there's
01:20been some times where we thought we were truly up against it and we questioned how we were going
01:25to do it we always kind of believed in ourselves that we could figure things out

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