Caminho do Peabiru
My first big project: over 13,000 km across Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and then come back from northern Chile and Argentina.
With the Portuguese and Spanish colonization, these trails - which were used only by the native and by animals at first - were widened, to allow horses and carriages to pass, and turned into roads. This transformation allowed us to travel on about 80% of the original route, for over 13,000 km across Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and then come back from northern Chile and Argentina.
It was the first time I ever travelled outside of Brazil, in my entire life.
For this journey, I replaced my carburettor Honda Shadow 600cc with a Suzuki V-Strom 650cc with electronic fuel injection - much more suited to travel on the Andean peaks.
But there was a problem: I only had leather saddlebags that did not fit on the new motorcycle. It was then that I reached out to GIVI do Brasil and pitched my project to them, asking for a set of cases in exchange for a partnership. Their answer came sooner than I expected.
A few days later, I was at GIVI do Brasil’s headquarters in Pindamonhangaba, and I was installing frames, the E41NN side cases and a Maxia E55N on my bike! Imagine how happy I was! Imagine how proud I felt!
Not even in my wildest dreams I could have imagined that creating a website and sharing what I knew could lead me to live the experience of travelling the world with a motorcycle.
During the trip, I saw some incredible places, through the majestic Andes Mountains, which still move me every time I cross them.
I reached Lake Titicaca and Cuzco in Peru, I visited Machu Picchu, I soared 5,000 meters over the sea, and dropped to the Nazca Lines.
For the first time ever, I saw the Pacific Ocean and walked the streets of San Pedro de Atacama, in northern Chile.
I narrated the entire trip, day by day, on my website and the Salone Duas Rodas’ website, at a time when people valued a good story more than a one-minute video. About 60,000 people followed my posts on the Diário de Motocicleta.
We suffered the cold, fell on sandy streets, took a lot of rain and snow, and came back after 52 days of travel with only one certainty: the world’s gates were open, and I would never go back to office work.
My partnership with Salone Duas Rodas lasted for three other editions - 2013, 2015, and 2017.
GIVI do Brasil was at my side during all of them, and was my partner in 2012, in my trip to Ushuaia, the “End of the World”, in the southernmost tip of America.
In 2012, I started planning daily trips and longer tours for groups in Brazil and South America. In 10 years, I guided over 1,700 motorcyclists.
In 2013, GIVI accompanied me on my first Brazil tour, along the Amazonas River, crossing a good portion of this amazing forest.
The many places I discovered led me to become a lecturer, a published author and a writer for motorcycle magazines and tourism columns in leading newspapers.
And finally, in 2014, when I had the opportunity to shake hands with Mr Giuseppe Visenzi, in Brescia (Italy), I signed my first sponsorship contract with GIVI do Brasil and we've been together ever since.
All these paths brought us here, and now we are beginning (or continuing) our motorcycle world tour, and I would like to invite you to get on our bike and enjoy this feeling through our eyes!
I hope you have fun, and, as always, I wish all my friends... A Good Road Ahead!
