Campos of Goitacazes -

Saturday, May 05, 2001.

Dream done of sand Analyst of systems that travels Brazilian beaches
to foot the day passes in San Francisco of Itabapoana! Gustavo Araújo

Tired of 15 hours to pass a day in front of a computer, the analyst of systems Dan Robson Dias, 31 years, it decided to radicalize. needed a physical activity. Resident in São Bernardo do Campo (SP), it opted for a walk conventional: a walk of Chuí to Oiapoque, traveling the 2 thousand beaches of the Brazilian coast, in a total of 8 thousand kilometers. Today, he leaves San Francisco of Itabapoana in direction to the Sul Capixaba, walking an average of 30 kilometers a day ".

I always practiced sport and I always went extremist ", it simplifies. In the backpack, the pilgrim group 15 kilos of equipments, including two shirts, a shorts, an impermeable boot of French production, a camera, a camp kit and a filmadora .

Mas the Project " Sands 365 " - that has nine sponsors and an approximate cost of R$ 50 thousand - it is much more than a simple walk. Since December 31, when it began the course in Barra of Chuí (RS); until Oiapoque, in the border of Brazil with French Guiana, where it intends to arrive in the last day of the year, Dan will be developing a study on medicinal herbs that are used in the communities of fishermen. The research will be a correspondent to University, in São Paulo. Later, the trip reports will be transformed in a book. leaves of the material it can already be accessed by the home page www.dan.com.br

.Cento and thirty days and 600 beaches already traveled they left a lot of histories.

Dan counts that suffered in the soft sands of Saquarema, 30 hours passed without eating in the coast gaucho, it faced ten days of rain and it shook of fear in the Spa of Hermenegildo (RS), hearing grunts at night that, according to residents, they would be of the lendário Big Foot (but that didn't pass of a monkey monkey) .Uma of the curiosities of the " Sands 365 " is a national flag, that the traveler takes to the last city hall of each state that visits. In San Francisco of Itabapoana, end north of the state of Rio, picked mayor Pedro Cherene's autograph yesterday.

It is " worthwhile his sacrifice, Cherene said, that signed beside the mayors' of Towers autographs (RS), Itapoá (SC), Guaraqueçaba (PR) and Ubatuba (SP). At the end of the itinerary, with 17 picked signatures, Dan intends to take the flag to the president Fernando Henrique Cardoso Brasília.

Will it be that he is going on foot?
Who knows!