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Adventurous of S.Bernardo it travels Brazilian coast to foot Marcos Schiripa
Of the Diary of Great ABC

What do you find of doing a trip for the whole Brazilian coast, visiting 2.000 beaches and traveling about 8.000 km? And was that adventure accomplished to foot, for 365 days, would you agree? The plastic artist Dan Robson, 31 years, it will face that challenge and will try to be the first man (the history doesn't register such feat) to get to outline the coast of Brazil walking.

Resident in São Bernardo, Dan began the adventure to half night of this Monday (schedule of the Island of Tonga, located in Oceanic Pacific, and first place in the world to enter in the New Millennium) and it intends to complete on December 31. The adventure begins at the beach of Barra of Chuí, in Rio Grande do Sul. In the Brazilian schedule, it went at 14:00 in the 31. The expedition will extend for 17 States and it contains in the boundary of Amapá with French Guiana.

Dan will be walking between 6:00 and 9:00 and 15:00 and 18:00. The intention is to flee of the strong " sun, it counts the adventurer. In the rest period it will make a research work, which should be used by an university and for in the future to write a book of the adventure entitled Sands 365. Most of the course will be accomplished to foot, in the sand of the beaches.

Dan won't walk in highways will be climbing hillsides, and sometimes, tends to cross barriers I swim her. For that, in your luggage they are escalade equipments and dive, that should be used in the hillsides. " During my preparation, I took dive courses, of escalade, of survival in the jungle. In other words, I am going to that adventure conscious of what I will face. I am not any nut. Everything was drifted ", it explains.

Dan traced a map defining which the days and places where it should be during the whole year. In your mapeamento, he classified the second stage of the adventure as the most difficult.

" In Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná I should not face difficulties. The most complicated part will be when it is in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo ", bill. " In these States they have many hillsides. When it arrives in Bahia it will be alone happiness ".

The idea of traveling the Brazilian coast, according to Dan, appeared by chance. I " woke up a kindred day of doing a trip, I thought about knowing the coast and I went behind conditions to place in practice that dream "., bill. The trip for Brazil, however, it is only a stage than the adventurer of Great ABC intends to accomplish.

Your intention is to travel the whole South American coast. " In 2005 I should begin the second stage. In that I go accompanied of a biologist. We should leave Guyana, to pass in the boundary with América Central and to contain in the south of Chile ".

The third stage will be contained in the North of Uruguay in 2007.