BOSTON, Mass. — Scotland fan Craig Ferguson is standing at the bottom of Jersey Street looking over at Fenway Park stadium, the home of the Boston Red Sox.It is all quiet as the 22-year-old from Paisley, a town 7 miles (11 km) west of Glasgow, readies himself to complete the final miles of his Tartan Trek expedition. Ferguson has spent the past 110 days walking over 3,000 miles from Santa Monica Pier in California to Boston, where Scotland will play their first World Cup game in 28 years on Saturday as they take on Haiti (9pm ET, 2am Sunday BST).Wearing his tartan kilt, Ferguson, who used to work in hospitality, has been walking at least 30 miles per day and has crossed 18 states in heat, snow and tornadoes to raise money for a mental health charity called Scottish Action for Mental Health. Ferguson set out to raise £1million ($1.3m) and earlier this week, after a final push which included a £400,000 donation from the Scottish government, he reached his target.Ferguson’s reward was the humid embrace of hundreds, if not a few thousand, Scotland fans who waited to cheer him on at the finish line on Boston Common. With a fleet of bagpipers providing the soundtrack to his final steps and a helicopter filming the moment from above, Ferguson rubbed his eyes, emotional at the sight before him on the hill surrounding the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.“I was walking down that street thinking I don’t know if anyone is going to be there,” Ferguson told The Athletic.“I could never have pictured this in a million years. Walking up there and seeing all the support and being embraced by my own country, the country I am so proud to be from, was just amazing. I can’t sum it up with words, thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone that has come out here.”His mother Joan was among those to greet him at the top of the hill as a powerful rendition of Flower of Scotland, the country’s unofficial national anthem, was belted out.“It is just unbelievable,” said Joan, who was the first to uncork a bottle of champagne and spray it into the air. “I can’t believe all these people are here just to see my boy. It’s just so overwhelming. There are no words.“I never doubted him for a minute. I knew when Scotland qualified for the World Cup he was going to come up with some crazy plan, it was just where, when and what.”Ferguson said there were multiple reasons why he set off on his long walk. One was simply because he’s adventurous and loves supporting Scotland. He was invited to do the coin toss before Scotland’s 4-0 friendly win over Bolivia in New Jersey. He said it was “surreal” to have been shaking hands with captain Andy Robertson, who told him the entire Scotland team, his “absolute heroes”, were right behind him.Ferguson (left center) celebrates after completing his epic trek (Caoimhe O’Neill/The Athletic)“The much deeper reason, the reason why I do all this, is it’s inspired by a mental health story,” Ferguson explained.“My best friend Struan, his dad, Russell, sadly took his own life seven years ago. The impact that had on their family, and seeing it from afar, was the whole inspiration for me.