A character. Sequins Note published in the journal Critique of Argentina Vladimir Yarets climbed into his BMW 650 motorcycle and traveled 311,000 miles in silence. Is deaf. In the palm of his left hand was written with indelible red fibrón age: 69 years, and year of birth: 1941.
Yesterday afternoon, Vladimir parked his bike in the pedestrian street Florida. "I want to enter the Guinness Book as the only deaf and dumb who traveled throughout the former Soviet Union, Europe, Africa and America on a motorcycle," says the proclamation is written in English and English and exhibits to those who come to greet him and shake his hand.
to the sides of the bike are engaged with their bags ropes. The road is like a traveling museum that goes around the world since 27 May 2000 and was already in 69 countries, has a German flag, one U.S., one in Jamaica, newspaper clippings from Taiwan where is seen posing with a smile, and a world map that shows the stages of its journey.
With his finger points to the names of their city and country: Minsk, Belarus. The has written to the storage room of the BMW. Each time the index supports rubs his arms in the cold. People look at him posing for pictures with him. Some will leave your helmet in two dollars bills and coins of one, so that the biker can continue its journey.
At six pm on the pedestrian porteña people swarm stops and looks. Vladimir grabs a sheet and write: 5% to 95%. With gestures of explanation: the 5 percent of people who see it pay attention, the rest do not care.
is dressed in camouflage pants, a belt buckle with American flag, sneakers and a black shirt rocker. In the storage room out a travel book. At the top stuck a photo of four Arab sheiks. The touch and lift your thumb. In the pages of the notebook has the hallmarks of the various countries visited. There are also dozens of dedications written in English, Italian, German, Arabic.
Near the end of the book stores a cut of an English magazine. Jean-Claude van Damme is on the floor legs open. Chuck Norris poses for a photo with the face of evil. Vladimir caresses and frantic. Take his hand on his heart and returns to lift your thumb: a fan of martial arts. Move your hand again by another picture of High School Musical and lift your thumb. Repeat the same scene when it brushes the side of the Queen of England Elizabeth II, which has a red cap. Vladimir raises his hand and takes it to his head and gestures.
On October 13, 2003 in Peoria, a small town in the United States, Vladimir crashed into a truck. He spent a year internship. When she was released, it went back up to the bike. Now you plan to travel to Tierra del Fuego and then cross into Chile.
is staying at the Hostel Inn and signs suggests that it is cheap. A man dressed in suit and tie comes up to him with a camera. He donates five dollars and hugs him. Vladimir knows what to do: thumbs up, smile and blue eyes look at the camera.