I: Good morning
Vladimir Alexeevich Yarets was installed next to one of the outputs of the Skytrain in downtown Vancouver, and displayed a bulletin board with photographs, maps, flags and newspaper clippings of all the places he had traveled on his motorcycle. Belarusian Vladimir was a bearded, ever smiling and looking good-natured that, leaning on his motorcycle, he answered all the questions of the people and all had conversation. When I met him there By August 2003, Yarets was three years traveling around the world, having started in Minsk at 59 years of age. It was his first trip: since 1967 had been spent navigating roads, and over three decades had gone through all the republics of the Soviet Union. With these gait in tow, in 2000 imposed a goal: to become the first person born deaf and dumb to go around the globe. The mysterious words today are: hic sunt DRAGONS.
II: "And there is / part of the air"
His early pictures, from the late 60s, are in black and white show him clean-shaven thin, smiling at some anonymous town in Uzbekistan with a toothless old woman looking at camera with suspicion. A 1969 photo, taken by him, shows an old man with thick white beard and turban sits on his donkey, with the first bike Yarets, which had accumulated the names of countries on the windshield, all written in Cyrillic.
The journey started in 2000 took him first from Asia and Europe, then was in Morocco and from there he traveled to Venezuela, then jump some Caribbean islands. Continued by the United States and Canada, and eventually traveled all the states of the Union American, including Alaska and Hawaii. Mexico's rapid pace and was in Central America. He was then Pacific, making news in Australia and New Zealand, then flew to Japan, went through several countries in Asia Pacific, and then went around some areas of the Arab world. Later went through Europe, South Africa jumped to another and then to Chile, South America to account for, including three days around Easter Island, rented a small motorcycle there. Currently
Yarets walk back in Europe, it looks like more for pleasure than to record, because it is their third time traveling the continent, thanks the videos on YouTube and his website, the man is known and well received wherever he goes. Vladimir Yarets just missing a part of the globe to complete their goal: the great African continent.
III: Travel illustrate his fevers
Nick Jones came to Colima, Mexico, after more than 800 days of travel in Rudolf, 125 cc motorcycle in which he left Wales with the intention of not return until turning it over to the world. I opened my door and there he was, his eyes still bloodshot and muddy road to the ears, "I thought it was a puddle and was almost were quicksand, told me to tell me an incident that had taken earlier that day. Nick had contacted me through CouchSurfing.com, a community of travelers that we offer each other free accommodation, asking for asylum for a few days in Colima while fixing his bike, I gladly accepted his request.
It had all started as a project to give the bike back to England, accompanied by a friend, years ago. Then the idea grew to cross Africa from Cairo to Cape Town (including Europe, encarrerados), so they began to train, make lists of necessary equipment, trace routes and prepare papers would require for the trip, but successive injuries and physical problems were delaying the date of departure to that at one point, decided to cancel the proposal. However, Nick had been the concern, so he bought a motorcycle and proceeded to make the trip alone, now motorized plan. Nick
that the first few weeks, through France, were the hardest, by loneliness and depression. In addition, concern was a latent unknown in the way that lay ahead, and the certainty that eventually would have difficult experiences. "You know I will be spending a lot of things that you're going to lose, you're going to steal, you're going to get sick, it will break the bike, all that will happen during the trip, just a matter of time. " Nick was given space to work a couple of weeks picking grapes in France, and continued his trip through Europe en route to Turkey, then move to the Middle East and finally to Egypt.
Africa was an adventure full of contrasts. From the dangers of being an old white man in colonial territory to the breathtaking natural beauty of the continent, through fascinating encounters with human and animal groups that would not be conceivable in his homeland. Zigzagging to avoid particularly dangerous areas, Nick went through, literally, jungles and deserts over eight months, mumbling a bit of swahili progress and surviving the heat, poisonous insects, sand storms, exotic foods and beverages and the risks of going into land as of Others to ignore the map that says "Here Be Dragons."
was stoned several times in Ethiopia, where he also stole clothing and equipment in more than one occasion, had to be emergency surgery at a hospital in Nairobi, was arrested by Egyptian police, never knew exactly why, had to redo the roads several times simply because the maps did not correspond to reality orographic; happened all, but finally arrived in one piece to Cape Town, Table Mountain where the spot is a question: "And now to where?". Needed
first, money to finance the remainder of the trip, investigated, weighed options, and decided that the next step would be Korea, where he could work as an English teacher. Travel by land was out, because China does not allow entry to foreign motorcycles, so he had to embark Rudolf and take a plane. So, he spent a year in Korea, working, saving, knowing the culture, drawing strength for the next stage.
Oakland, in the Together, was the next starting point. With the south on the compass, came to Mexicali and then set out to cross the peninsula. A boat took him to Sinaloa, and then rolled to Chihuahua fell to Durango, Zacatecas, Nayarit and Jalisco then. In Colima parked a week to make repairs to his bike, relax, write, and revise maps to plot the next part of the route.
company spent good hours of chatting and drinking tea. Nick took time to hang out in Colima around and go see about the volcano we went to a concert of Susana Harp, and was pleasantly surprised with the Teatro Hidalgo was interviewed for television and newspaper, and then came in contact with a photographer who asked her to model for a session and presented him with a camera did not fuss at the local kitchen and I went to tacos, pinched, the quesadillas, salsa.
He left ParicutÃn taking to the volcano, with the intention of arriving in the city of Mexico, and then point to the Yucatan Peninsula. "I do not know what's going to do when he returns to England, I guess if it is going to be able to stay there," said one or two days before returning to the road. For someone who has seen the same the Eiger, in the Swiss Alps, which crossed the 450 km alone in the desert of Atbara, Sudan, must be hard to imagine a return to a sedentary life down the road.
IV: And there is /
released Nick Jones has covered 66 774 miles since it began its journey 821 days ago. The circumference of the Earth is 40 000 km, so in a straight line, has traveled the equivalent of giving him back and half the globe. Aims to reach Tierra del Fuego, and then return to England, but who knows if it is going to resist sitting still after all I lived. Vladimir
Yarets has traveled 302 279 kilometers since it began to travel, 43 years ago in his native Soviet Union. These thousands of kilometers silent Yarets that life devoted to learning the world, are the equivalent to the distance a beam of light travels in one second, just a tick in the cosmic clock.
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're on the Web: ErnestoCortes.com.
References: www.TalesFromTheSaddle.com, www.Yarets.com, en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Here_be_dragons
Soundtrack: Air Party, Fito Paez, Argentina.
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