B.C. man takes public transit all the way to Mexico

William Hui did not cheat. He set his own rules and then planned his route carefully, determined to make it all the way to Tijuana without flying or using Greyhound and Amtrak.

William Hui did not cheat.

He set his own rules and then planned his route carefully, determined to make it all the way to Tijuana without flying or using Greyhound and Amtrak.

At the end of June, he did exactly that, travelling from Vancouver to Mexico using only public transit.

“People who know me, they already know I'm nuts,” said Hui. “There's a lot of surprise. There's a lot of, ‘What did you do?’"

A TransLink employee, Hui admits he loves transit.

So for nine days, and nearly 3,000 kilometres, he transferred between busses and trains, making his way to the southern tip of California and beyond.

“One of the things I enjoyed doing was just purely looking out the window, looking at the scenery that was passing by,” he told CTV News.