12 / 05 / 2001

Espírito Saint Gazette Wanderer crosses Brazil of north to south

Eight thousand kilometers of walk to the seashore, cutting the whole Country, of the south end, in the Stream of Chuí, Rio Grande do Sul, to the city of Oiapoque, in Amapá, in the boundary with French Guiana. That is the challenge that the person from São Paulo from São Bernardo do Campo, Dan Robson Dias, 31 years, it began in the first day of the millennium and it intends to end until the end of the ano.

A adventure had beginning at the 10 hours of December 31, 2000, same schedule in that the new millennium began at the islands Fiji, in Pacific, first point of the planet to greet the year of 2001.Mudança Dan walks about 8 hours a day, traveling about 30 to 40 kilometers, just carrying a backpack with equipment, clothes and food. In São Paulo, he worked as system analyst and it passed about 15 hours in front of the screen of the computer. They were " more than 14 years dedicated to the computer science. One day, in the middle of the Christmas, I caught eating lunch me and playing in the computer. It was there that noticed that needed to change of life " .

A chooses for the project of cutting the Country of North to South to foot it appeared for the love that also had always to the sports. During the whole last year he prepared the trip. I " looked for help with sponsors and I got ready physics and psicologicamente ".

Besides, the analyst of systems partnerships with universities, so that you/ removed some advantage of the walk for the 8 thousand kilometers of beaches. Experiência"Estou picking medicinal herbs, that sending for one of the universities.

I also have plans of writing a book on the way of life of the population of the coast and I still serve of base for a research of students of Psychology ", explicou.Ele crossed the border of Rio de Janeiro with the Espírito Santo in the 5 of this month. I " already passed for more than 700 p lines in 2,8 thousand kilometers ".

During that itinerary of the adventure, Dan counts that the formation of a desert in the area of Rio Grande do Sul, with about 50 kilometers, it was it that more it impressed

I " also went totally by moments of solitude in places isolated. During the trip, that R$ 10 thousand, Dan cost it counts with the solidarity of the fishermen, that shelter him/it in most of the villas and cities.