I once chanced upon this book about someone who embarked on a similar journey and then wrote about it at the end: https://archive.org/details/HandToMouthToIndi

I once chanced upon this book about someone who embarked on a similar journey and then wrote about it at the end: https://archive.org/details/HandToMouthToIndia/page/n11 https://archive.org/details/HandToMouthToIndia/page/n11 IIRC, he was 18 at the time and had a flute, a sleeping bag, and less than 60 GBP to his name, and this might happened in the late 90s/early 2000s. Though I suspect he spent less time actually walking than Stewart. Every now and then I see something like this pop up in the news, though usually its fundraising, or someone's blogging/instagramming their journey. Probably the biggest impediment to this style of travel is gradually increasing border protection in the wake of 9/11.