Karl Bushby completed his 28-year odyssey to walk around the world Monday by returning to his mother's home in northern England.

Bushby embraced his emotional mother, Angela, outside her row house in Hull, England, which he left in 1998.

They were surrounded by journalists, a documentary film crew and a large crowd outside the home that had a banner saying "Welcome Home Son." Bushby was a 29-year-old ex-paratrooper when he walked away from the home to a Royal Air Force base near Oxford and caught a flight to South America.