MAGAZINE VENTURES AND ACTION For the Sands of Brazil - expeditions

For the sands of Brasi, fifteen years looking at the screen of the computer is capable to transform the life of any human and to produce a stereotype that we knew well: the sad illustration of " a subject totally sedentary, with glasses ' garrafa' bottoms, holding a pizza piece in an of the hands, while it types with the other ".

Dan Robson describes, with those words, the one that your life could be had reduced. However, after one and a half decade breathing computer science, he changed the direction of that history. decided to give a turn thereabout, as all knots we do time or other. The difference is that he was well besides that pause for the coffee in the bakery of the corner. It is traveling the distance between Chuí and Oiapoque. To foot.

To accomplish the project " Sands 365 " Dan Rrobson Dias left Chuí, RS, on December 31, 2000, to face more than 8.000 km, until arriving to Oiapoque, in the State of Amapá, one year later. When it was in the composition of Adventure and Action, he had accomplished a third of the trip, or 2.800 km, until the stop in Vitória, you are. The walk for our coast is the first part of a turn for South America, I am making this space to foot, the close ones will already be of car, ship, motorcycle...", it explains. Dan, as it is called by all, always practiced sports, I " adore long itineraries. I already made marathons, autonomous dive, cyclism, athletics and swimming ", bill.

To the 31 years, began to work with computer science to the 15, dividing the time among the work and the sports that practiced. The idea of the " Sands 365 " appeared in Christmas 1999, when tried to remember of the last time in that had practiced some sport type. There were four years. I " got a fright. The time had passed too fast and I was not living, I only felt bill of that on that moment ", reminds. In the unpublished itinerary, he will pass for about 2.000 beaches, in 17 States. Besides the sporting aspect, one of the objectives is to research the habits, habits, religions and folklore of the people inhabitant of the seaside. also makes part of the project the collection of possible medicinal herbs.

" To the edge sea the index of skin diseases is very big, for that the researches are gone back to the area of cellular " renewal, it clears. The headquarters of that from São Paulo one for giving end to the that he calls mechanical " life surrendered projects that should extend for next nine years.

The turn for South America will be accomplished in three stages: besides this, there will be one in 2003 and other in 2005. He still has plans for other expeditions, that will happen in 2002, 2004 and of 2006 up to 2009. In 2002, in you Sand" Sub ", Dan will make the itinerary again of Chuí to Oiapoque, but car and ship, visiting the best points of dive of the country. In 2004 he intends to do the crossing of the Desert of Saara to foot, it is " a personal challenge, it will be the largest feat of my life ", reveals. In your days of walk, it carries the hut, sack of sleeping, filmadora, camera, insulating thermal, kit of First Aid, food and maps. Until the moment made two pauses. The first in the end of February and Monday in May, when it came to São Paulo to update the site (www.danrobson.com.br) and to bring images for the Rede Globo. The most important balance counted on those first months of expedition, without a doubt, the people's receptivity that found for the road, your legends, hospitality and gestures of disinterested affection was. As surprising as the manifestations of affection - of people that offer house, food and a good prose - the legends that are part of the imaginary of that simple and hospitable people are surrendering the best histories. Do you know the Big Foot? That dreadful creature exists in the south of Brazil, close to Chuí, and your screams made our expeditionary one to run for almost two hours, without stopping. I " never heard so a scream apavorante in all my life ", bill. The existence of the Big Foot is confirmed by any inhabitant of the Spa of Ermenegildo, the some 13 km of Chuí. Dan was in your second day of trip. didn't " eat eight hours ago, then I stopped for to set up the hut and to remove the food of the backpack. It was when I saw the enormous footprints in the ground. I thought that they were me nailing a piece, but what came to follow me made to enter in panic ", reminds. Same ressabiado, he decided to follow the footprints, going up the dune. " My boots are number 44, and the footprints were still larger ", bill. " In the high of the dune, I sighted a sandbank and, quickly, the bush if moving.

Soon after vein that absurd scream. There was not anybody there. Who would be screaming " ?. The fact is that he found better not to wait to obtain the answer and left rolling dune below.

In the desperate attempt of to join everything that was yours and to disappear as soon as possible, it ended up losing good part of your belongings, besides all the food. Just the following day, after almost 30 hours without eating and to the edge of the despair, it was that the former-analyst of systems - when finally other human beings that gave found what to eat - it could unmask the mystery that almost killed of fright. " The cable Gregório, that offered me landing, told me that the terrifying creature was a monkey monkey, whose footprints to the seashore, obviously, increase of size. It is a family of monkeys monkey that lives for those bands and that, times behind, they were maintained in farms of the area ", it explains. Undone the mystery, it continued strong and strong, heading for the north.

" After that day, it was prepared for any elegance " type, bill. Among the year that preceded the trip and this that proceeds, you Sand him/it " 365 " will have a total cost of about R$ 10.000,00. The expedition counts with the support of nine companies and it will turn book: " Sands 365, 365 days of walk for the Brazilian " coast.