Diary of Great ABC
January 26, 2002 Adventurous of S. Bernardo does to foot expedition
for the whole coast of Brazil

When abandoned the autonomous work with computers, there is more than 2 years, the resident from São Bernardo do Campo, Dan Robson, badly imagined that one year would pass I find out at the beach, Fan of the adventurers' daring, Dan became the protagonist of your own expedition in December of 1999, when it decided to travel to foot the whole Brazilian coast, of the Stream of Chuí (Rio Grande do Sul), to Oiapoque (in the boundary among Amapá with French Guiana), in 365 days.

The Projeto Areias365 had beginning in December of 2000 and it was contained exactly with success in the same month of 2001. " worked in the area of analysis of systems 15 years ago. It was very unhappy and it didn't tolerate that life. always looked at those faces making wonderful expeditions and imagined there.

It sought a road for my life. There I finished a seven year-old courtship and I decided to venture. Now, I know what it is to live ", proud Dan said, that chose for the challenge to foot due to the lack of resources. " As was a freshman in the business and didn't have many sponsors I decided to set up something cheaper ".

According to Dan, in eight thousand Km of coast, he went by 17 States and almost 2000 beaches, what generated a lot of histories. The most interesting of them was the legend of the Big Foot, counted for the residents of the Spa of Hermenegildo, in Rio Grande do Sul, second which a monster attacked the close people to the light of the Open border.

" In beginning, I thought that it was game ", Dan said. " But I went by the place and I saw enormous footprints in the beach, that was deserted.

I followed the footprints and after a dune I heard screams leaving the sandbank, later other screams. The fright took care of me. I ran as a lunatic rolling for the dune until reaching my backpack. Be 30:00 walking without food frightened. With hunger, I got to eat grass ", Dan said, that discovered that the such monster was just a group of monkeys Bugil, that has size and big foot after this marathon as of a man. To eat during the expedition, Dan counted a lot with the sympathy of the Brazilian people. " When the people knew what did there, they invited me to have dinner, they offered me a place to sleep ".

Dan did more than 20 reports for television during your trip, in one of them had a face that was camped 2 days in the alone beach to speak to me.

The expedition Areias365 had become book soon together with the other two continuation of the project in 2005 and 2007, the interested ones in more details on this and other adventures of Dan Robson can visit the site www.danrobson.com.br