Vishnu Chapke on March 19, 2016, when he started his journey; (below) his parents

Vishnudas Chapke, 35, a former journalist from Mumbai, had set out in 2016 hoping to be the first Indian to travel around the world by road. He seems to have had no idea how tough it was going to be, because today that record stands to be abandoned. Chapke has found himself stuck in Costa Rica for the past 47 days, struggling to get a visa for Nicaragua, which is his next destination.