Project Amazon-Bike

Glimpses for the Daily Newspaper of Great ABC

While most of the cicloturistas chooses routes that ally beautiful landscapes and good infrastructure to pedal, others prefer the less favorable places exactly to be faced of bicycle.
It is the adventurer's Dan Robson,que case your house it came back in São Bernardo do Campo in the last 10, after passing more than 70 days crossing the country of West to East for the precarious highway Transamazônica, from Rio Branco, in Acre, until the capital paraibana of João Pessoa.

Although the course among the two capitals is of approximately 4,5 thousand kilometers, the deviations and obstacles took the former-analyst of systems to have to pedal more than 6 thousand kilometers to arrive to the same destiny. That without speaking in the ascents and descents that the own adventurer qualifies as " uncommon ".

And what is worse: in rain time. " the last 21 days were inteirinhos under water. In that time, Transamazônica is practically impassable; very difficult to finish the trip ", it counts Dan Robson, that characterizes the route as beautiful and, at the same time frightening, since it is far away from any place where one can ask for help case it dirties some unexpected.

" Before beginning the course, I caught some information in the 54 Battalion of Jungle of the Amazonian, that guided me with relationship to the five worse problems of the area: the risk of contracting malaria, the terrible conditions of the highway in itself, the assaults, the conflicts among Indians and prospectors, and the animals as ounces and snakes. But the worst of everything is the malaria that can kill if it be not treated on time ".

As compensation the those difficulties and to the lack of help, Dan detaches the infinity of types of fruits that can be picked there same, well to the margin of the highway, as the mango, ìnga, cupuaçu, wild passion fruit and banana, among others. " Of hunger nobody dies in Transamazônica ".


The Arrival: I Feel the smell of the sea, looks and I don't believe, after 71 days of a long trip I arrive to my final destiny, the coast of João Pessoa in Paraíba, to be more exact, the point more oriental from America, the light of Seixas' Tip, I sight a kiosk of ice cream of Kibon, I didn't think twice I asked for a super ice cream, one more and later more other, I was there admiring the sun that the more than 21 days he/she didn't feel air of your grace, pedaling the more than my body could support, it arrives at my end you reward the personal bonus.
For some seconds, my bolt eyes, I am trying to understand what it takes a man to leave the comfort and comfort of a home, to be 71 days far away from the pleasures that surround a great metropolis as São Paulo; to Camp in the bush, subject to diseases as the malaria, to be killed by indigenous conflicts against prospectors or even turning an ounce meal, it is difficult for who this of out of the world of the adventure to understand or not to call me of lunatic, but the reward of overcoming the challenges is summarized to be in front of the sea .

and to say for himself, which I dreamed in doing, already this accomplished ", one more reached objective. The ecstasy of the victory is summarized to the simple fact of being there, sitting down in front of the sea and to savor a delicious ice cream and to listen the noise of the sea, simply to rest to the sound and pleasures that the nature can feel.
OBS: Victorian, is not just a conquest, but a spirit state, each expedition that I accomplish seems a road that I have to proceed so that my being more and more can develop.