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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 you/they 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 ".
To
begin a new project, you are months imagining how it will
be, suddenly there this you due to the reality, or better of the unbearable
heat, I get off the airplane and I am hot that hovers in the air,
I leave São Paulo with your 15 degrees and I am me here in
Acre with more than 40 degrees, it is to leave any one sweating without
stopping, I delayed 3 days to begin to support what I call Amazon
Sauna, with your humidity and absurd temperature.
as if
my body had a hole or leak any, I place a mango blouse accomplished
wet to try to refresh a little, respiration bottom and I begin to
pedal, the first 10 kilometers are calm but when I arrive the mark
of the 16 kilometers I am hot and I take shelter in the cabine with
conditioned air of the it polices bus station, I admit that beat an
I discourage and I didn't have courage of continuing the trip, until
the policemen they were hot, imagine me a poor from São Paulo
accustomed with the cold literally frying in the asphalt of Acre,
as the night was already approximating if I asked to camp beside the
fiscal position, with their consent I went to lie down me soon, to
avoid the countless insects and mosquitos of the area, I left the
hut with the closed screen, I was me fanning the night finds out until
my arm to be aching and to faint of sleep, it was not long a lot and
I woke up all wet, it had imagined that it was feverish, it was not
true it was yes the perspiration that didn't stop ceasing, I went
until the policemen's cabine and I asked for some cold water, I sat
down a little in the chair, that good the conditioned air and the
cold water I gave an encouragement to the heat of the night, it was
when Sergeant Farias told me, - If you want can sleep in here
in the lodging, you should be frying inside of that hot hut.
I looked at him as if he had reading my thoughts, but before saying
yes, the not came, without thinking a voice he/she told me there inside,
- You have to accustom with the heat to give continuity with the trip.
I left the comfort and the cabine policeman's refreshing air and I
went back to my greenhouse, it was a very long night until that my
body turned off, I felt during the dawn a light breeze that comes
from the forest, there for 2 in the morning I could feel the temperature
to lower until about 20 degrees, that good I will be able to sleep
now a little, amanhão will really begin the project Amazon
Bike...
Everything
ready, I leave my thoughts for he/she brings, I am due to
the reality, the heat of 40 degrees leaves very clear that this trip
won't be easy I feel my skin to fry with the sunbeams and I consummate
liters and liters of water,
During the
trip, more than 70 days I will take to arrive in João Pessoa,
in this course teverei that to ask to the residents of the highway,
authorization to camp beside your houses, because in many places hotels
or camping site don't exist...
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