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I was really, really, really looking forward to
this day, to being able to share this time and this space.
I hope it’s of some use, and I’m very happy that what brings us together is
travel, motorcycle trips, the desire to discover other ways of
thinking, of feeling, of understanding why the world is the way it is and why some things
happen the way they do. That, in the end, is one of the main
purposes for which I do what I do. So, let’s get to it, shall we? Shall we begin
? Come on, let’s go. I really like
definitions, and I wanted to start with this one: inspire. That word defines
the first thing we do when we come into the world. I mean, we emerge from the womb and
boom. Sometimes we downplay breathing, but there’s a second meaning,
which is to inspire, infuse, or give birth in the spirit or mind to affections,
ideas, designs, etc. So, of course, one of the basic things I
can’t help but mention is who inspired me , given that there’s sometimes a certain
reciprocity at work in these processes. Surely some
of the videos I’ve been making over time have touched your
soul, moved some nerves, but that was also the case with these
three. The first is the story of Christopher McAndles, “The Into the
Wild” to “Rutas Salvaje,” a person who leaves everything behind and decides
to give up even money to return to his roots and truly provide for
himself in the middle of Alaska. Second, if you
haven’t read it, I highly recommend it: the story of Dead Simon and Jupiter’s Voyages
. It’s the bible of motorcycle travel. He traveled the world for five
years in the 1970s. And third, the journey of “Long Way Round,
Long Way Down, and Long Way Up” by Edwan McGregor and Charlie Burman. And I said, “I
‘m going to empower myself, and if they’ve been able to do it, I think I can too.”
Then I remembered the concept of the butterfly effect. Something that happens in one
part of the world to a person in a completely unexpected way can
make another person somewhere else decide to completely change their life and begin
the Soy Tribut project, which brings us here today. Butterfly, it has to be a
big, big butterfly. And along the way, this blessed path I’ve had the
good fortune to travel, I’ve met many wise men, wise women, grandfathers, grandmothers,
connoisseurs of… Yes, I agree. Uh,
and one of them is Jate, who lives near Savoy. So, doggy,
shut up, you’ll hear him. Nacudiar,
we study to work, we work to consume. Finally
, we die. The poet says. So, we were born to
die. We’re dead from the moment we were born.
That shows how poor modern society is for human beings. A
human being who seems to live his entire life
boxed in. He ‘s born in a box and in that box you grow and move around in boxes
to learn, to know. You live in a box, you sleep in a box, you walk and
move around in a box, you study and learn in a box. You have fun in a box. And
the best thing that can happen to you is that in a box you can remember that there is another
existence beyond the world of boxes. Finally, you die and you die in
a box. It’s that raw. Finally, you die and
you end up in a box. So, faced with this, I thought, boxes, what [ __ ] I
don’t want to live in a box, or at least I want to significantly
reduce the time of my life that I spend that way . But before I start, I want to
show you a little bit of where I came from, that is, what my background was. This is a photo
of me at what I consider to be the worst moment of my life, when I played
Deep down. I think I was almost depressed, almost , or maybe I was very distracted and didn’t
realize I was actually depressed. The body warns you, right? I
mean, when something’s not right emotionally,
it’s like biologically the cells rebel against you to send you signals that
something’s definitely up. And a lot of things started happening to me
. Suddenly, one day, a vein burst in my eye. I’d never sprained my ankle in
my life, and suddenly, I stepped wrong, and they gave me a third-degree sprain.
They had to do the, what do you call it? an MRI in my head because
they had found some white things and I don’t know what and I said, “Shit, it can’t be
that the fact of having studied law and the world that I was getting into,
which was the world of international trade and business,
was giving me such a huge debt at a vital level, right? I mean, that
it was taking its toll on me so young and so soon. So I said, maybe it’s
that the law that I studied was the right to be free, a
fundamental right that we are always born with and that somehow the
system in which we are immersed seems to be taking away from us little by little. And in another little corner
of Cundinamarca I met a beautiful Muisca grandmother, a Muisca heiress,
who told me this. Something that time does not forgive is what is
not done in time. Something that time does not forgive is what is
not done in time. I always thought that the last thing I would want was
to get to my deathbed, look back and regret all those
things that I did not do and that if I tried and I tried, maybe I could have
. This photo is a photo of planet Earth. Carl Sagan called it that pale
blue dot. All the people we know, the entire history of
humanity, the entire history of the planet is in that tiny pixel. And
I ask myself, what do you want to do in it? I’m inside that little dot. There’s little
chance, especially with these overcast skies, that I could go
outside. What do I want to do in it? And I was clear about it: I wanted to use my time
to travel because I’ve always conceived of travel as an exquisite source of
knowledge, of learning, of growing, and of getting to know oneself as well. But I didn’t want
to travel in any old way; I wanted to travel through the people who inhabit
the territory. You know, sometimes we can pass by, sometimes we can
go a little deeper, and sometimes you can go right to the core. And I wanted to get
to the epicenter of the universe. That’s where I wanted to be. For what purpose? For
this purpose, the purpose of seeking knowledge. Knowledge of how others
think, which at the same time helps me understand myself. But I realized Consider
the time that I wasn’t just going to be seeking knowledge, I was also
going to be seeking patience, because things didn’t start off so well.
At the beginning of the trip, my budget was quite limited. I’d been saving
all my life to get started, and I was counting on selling my motorcycle in
Madrid to cover at least 60% of the cost of the next one. However,
unfortunately, a month before selling it, an arsonist decided to burn
10 motorcycles in the Malasaña neighborhood of Madrid, when that, as far as I know,
has never happened before. So I said, well, I’m not going to be able to afford the motorcycle
I was aiming for, which at the time was the 800 GS. So I started looking for
second- and third-hand motorcycles. And here comes the story of this guy who
apparently seemed like a good guy, and today I think he scammed me
miserably because the motorcycle looked really good, it’s really beat up, man. But
I had a bunch of parts from other bikes, from other models. Uh, the cables,
we never knew what was going on with the cables, my bike would turn off
seven times a day on average, but I liked the aesthetic because it looked nice
and had a certain epic quality, and since at that time my motorcycling knowledge was
equivalent to almost zero, I said, “This looks good. I think it
can handle the hero’s journey.” So, with some Argentinian friends, for two
weeks we decided to make it a little more epic and paint it. We spent two weeks sanding,
priming, painting, and that’s how the legendary supernova was born. What is a
supernova? I’ve told you about it in a video , but I’ll remind you. A
supernova is an astrological, astronomical phenomenon in which a
massive star, much larger than the sun, suddenly implodes and explodes,
scattering all the material it contains into the cosmos . A nebula forms
, and over thousands of years and with the
universal gravitational movement , that material ends up condensing and forming
planets, uh, other stars, maybe even a moon. So, what
fascinates me about the supernova is its meaning of destruction,
creation. It seems like something has to be destroyed so something else
can happen. And that seemed metaphorical enough for me to
name the motorcycle Supernova. So, Supernova, November 17, 2017,
I put it in a, no, yes, a week before I put it in a box and arrived in Santiago de
Chile, where the motorcycle was supposed to arrive four days later. And here I began to
understand that some things don’t always happen the way you expect.
Guess who’s here. They deserve it. [Music] Hey, excuse me, excuse me, I’ve cracked my helmet,
man. I was calling United Cargo that
because the motorcycle was delayed almost a month, right? It took three weeks, the helmet arrived
broken, and I had to wait another week for them to send me a new helmet. It was how
it happened. I was desperate to get started; imagine, I’d been wanting to do it for seven years since
I was 21, and the bike never arrived, never arrived, never arrived. But
anyway, it finally arrived. The helmet arrived too, and I came to the conclusion much
later that the timing is perfect, even though sometimes it doesn’t seem
that way. Something I’ve never shared, but that I want to reveal here today because
I want this to be something intimate and go beyond what’s published
on the internet, is a message I literally received. I left on December 24th
—no, sorry—on December 22nd for the Maipo Canyon. And a
friend from Madrid, who was my dance teacher’s partner, sent me this
message, saying, “Compadre, I’m going to Chile on January 25th . I’ll be there from January 25th to
February 8th.” It’s a very deep personal project I’m here to do, and
I invite you to participate in it. And I said, “So, Victor, tell me a little bit
about what this is about.” He said, “Well, it’s a job with plants.” And when he said
plants, of course, I thought about this. What does it mean to learn how to make a
garden, to grow good vegetables? I don’t think I was
getting it quite right because the words were kind of coded. And
on the other hand, he said, “Are you going to meet grandma?” And I said, “Grandma?”
I was imagining a grandma like this, right? And I said, “Wow, that’s what I’m here for
, to meet old people full of kind words.” And he said, “You have to
meet my friend Juan, who lives very close to where you are.” Juan stumbled
onto my website by chance. At that time, I had a tracking device on my
motorcycle that was publicly displayed on the screen. real time where I was. He saw that I
was literally two hours from his house and invited me to stay. And that’s when
he revealed the truth. He said, “Well, let’s see, this isn’t exactly a
gardening thing, eh, it’s about work with power plants, it’s four oc days.”
I said, “But [ __ ] I’ve never done this .” “Where is it?” He says, “It’s in
a part of southern Chile. But how far south? Chile goes all the way to
the south.” He says to me about halfway. And I say, “Oh, Juan, well then it’s
complicated because I did the math and I had approximately a month to travel
6,000 km.” In other words, I had to go down from Santiago, get to Usuguaya and come back.
I said it in other words, it’s the same distance between Santiago and
Medellín. I don’t want to start this in a hurry, I don’t know, I don’t think I’ll make it, to be
honest, Juan. Uh, I prefer to take it little by little. I have no idea how to travel by
motorcycle, I have no idea how to record, I can’t commit. And he said, “Okay,
but before you go, come meet Arturo.” And I said, “Okay, fine, let’s go
tomorrow morning.” That morning was December 24, 2017, and I met my
dear German brother, Arturo Bigfoot. As soon as I got in, he said, ”
Not you, not you, you don’t need it, you ‘re fine.” And I said, “No, but
I’m not suitable, no, I’m not suitable to meet grandma or whatever.” And in the end,
he led me to the craziest one. We were talking for a while, and something happened that
I’ll never forget. While we were looking into each other’s eyes, we got
really emotional and tears started to well up, and at the same time, like a
bunch of visions, crazy images, this without having taken anything, right? And
nothing, I told him and I said, “Look, this is happening to me, I’m not, this is really
crazy.” And he said, “Yes, yes, I know, I know.” Like a good shaman. So, in the
end, we got to the following. As the poet says, “Today is always still. I’m
going to try, but I’m not going to stress myself out. If I make it, I make it, and if I don’t,
well, it will be another time.” So I left that same day, that same morning
after seeing them, I left. But before I left, a Brazilian friend, a Rastafarian,
shaved my head. That’s how the tradition began. And I remember that as I crossed the
first street out of the Providencia neighborhood of Santiago de Chile,
a car full of things saw me . I think he realized I was
starting something and said, “To life.” And I replied, “To life.” And off I went.
My first destination was this, right? The Maipo drawer. And I’m posting this photo
so you can really see how green I was and what a novice I was, that
I had distributed my luggage so badly that when I was stopped the motorcycle would tip over
. I think in the first three days, I don’t
know if I lost between 15 and 20 things that I thought that held up and didn’t. Since
I’d never done this before, I remembered that in reality no one is born knowing and
I had to remind myself of this, right? It was, man, you’re learning, don’t stress, don’t
get overwhelmed, little by little, yes, you’ll almost get off this curve, but oh well, next time
give it a little better. And the truth is that for having only done a
2-day introductory off-road course in Spain and coming to the Andes
, I think it went pretty well. Antonio Machado said this, didn’t he? Well,
I’ve modified it a bit. Walker, there is no path, the path is made by rolling,
as is our case. I arrived in Pichilemu, where I met this
wonderful couple with whom I spent Christmas Eve and it was already meeting these two
and already at the farewell I cried. I mean, [ __ ] but the number of people who
I’m going to meet, as I have to cry for each one I meet along the way,
harden your heart or process it in another way. I said to them, “Hey,
guys, I’m looking for tribes, but I don’t really know which ones. I haven’t had
time to do pre-production work . I mean, I know they exist,
but I don’t even know their names or where they are, but I know I’m going to
find them. Can you help me find them?” And they said, “Yeah, we know
a cochayuyo fisherman. Cochayuyo is an edible seaweed that grows on the
Pacific coast of Chile. And they took me to meet him and after 5 minutes
I said, “Wait, wait, his name is Marzo.” I said, “Marzo, wait a
minute, we have to record this. I’m going to the room for the
camera.” And this was my first interview
that showed me a little where things were going, right? Not even the land
should be sold because we are an inheritance. An inheritance. This is a planet. If you
could read yourself in a barilla ship to infinity, perhaps you would see a
little bit of land like this. And inside that little land there are thousands of living beings. Just like inside your
body there are also millions and millions and trillions. Look, I didn’t go to
school, but I’m not stupid. Of cells and you know what it’s called, life.
And you know how long what they have to last will last. So don’t love
money anymore, love life because life is short. Yesterday I
was 15 years old. And today I opened my eye,
54 years old, tomorrow I’m going to open my eye again,
maybe I’ll no longer be there. So, why strive for such great things if we have
to strive for them in life? Why strive for such great things
if we have to strive in life? In life there are A path, and a very
wise sensei I also knew in Chile told me, “You have to be the path
you walk.” How far? I asked him. Until you find what you
need to find. It’s that simple. And I still think
I’ve found things, but there are still many others missing. That’s how
I began to travel through Chilean Patagonia, eh, a place, the Carretera Austral,
a must for all two-wheel lovers . I saw lakes like
Lake Rupanco, wonderful, and I crossed into Argentina and began to travel the other
legendary Route 40, which has some parts that are more complicated than it seems, especially
in the north. I began to receive irrefutable proof of my lack of
experience, one after another, every day passed. And this one I’m going to tell you about now
was arriving at a very beautiful place called El Chaltén. I
arrived and saw a young man doing deodorization and asked him, “Where are you from?” Hey, I’m
from France. And I started moving forward. It really gave me a very good vibe. Well, not
by nationality, but rather by a question of the words
we exchanged, well, I didn’t feel the energy, but I continued for 30 m. In other words, the
other guy was watching us and I stopped and said, “Where are you from?” And he said, “I’m
from Córdoba.” “Are you from Córdoba?” “Yes, yes, from Córdoba.” “Well, where
are you going?” “To Chaltén, huh? I’m waiting here for someone to take me. Is it
going to get dark?” Well, look, man, the other guy is going to be really upset that
he was more of a friend, but he’s taking you. That motorcycle wasn’t designed to carry my
luggage, which was already a lot, and I had to bear the weight of him and his luggage. And what
happened? Well, my kickstand broke . I looked for seven welders and
none of them wanted to take it and then they told me about a kid who was
learning to weld. I said, “Well, if this is my only
option, you grab onto a nail splitting.” However, what happened? It became a
bit Hilllerian. It was so that it was as if there was no leg. The solution
was not to remove it and put it back because it had to go. Then
he started adding objects underneath so that it reached the ground a little more
. And in the end I started every time I took a turn I would see
sparks coming out, I mean, I got to a certain place, people laughed at me, it was ridiculous.
Another thing that happened to me, which relentlessly demonstrated my lack of experience
was this. [Music]
He fell. He fell.
following his group. When the I don’t believe it?
Yeah, believe it. We started to pass you and you started to
accelerate, dude. Ah, I didn’t realize.
I realized that you didn’t realize. Of course, I had two helmets, the one with the
hole that had come to me on the motorcycle and the one they sent me later. And I said,
“Well, for when I take a kid like the other one who take it to the
chaltén, I’ll take it.” And so I dropped it. And they just happened to be that we had left
the campsite together and it must have been 10 km away that I dropped it and luckily it was a little
scraped, they recovered it and gave it to me. But of course, dropping
a helmet is one thing, but suddenly having a scare like this in your
first week or two of travel, that’s serious, right? A bigger mess.
The rain hood got stuck in the chain, all tucked in. How careful do you have
to be, please? Yes, I didn’t have waterproof material like
that bag there now. They were things that if it rained they would get wet and you had to
put them on with a rope or in this case with a typical rain cover so they wouldn’t
get wet. The fact is that it flew off, it went all the way down and suddenly I think
I was going 120 and I feel like, I didn’t know what had happened, I controlled the bike as best I could
and luckily the wheel didn’t lock up and I didn’t he spat. How beautiful that when
it seems that one needs emotional support, the universe conspires in favor of something
happening. And on that same day that I was saying, “Damn, I almost killed myself, I almost
killed myself, how dangerous, this isn’t as fun as I thought.” I met
someone on the road that I found very funny at the same time that I said,
“Well, let’s see what happens. [Music]
[ __ ] Why isn’t it my day today? Kiss. This is my reward for the day. It has me
having a [ __ ] day Seriously, I can imagine. I almost died. You’re a gift from the lecino. What’s your
name? Miriam.
Miriam. How are you, Agustín? Nice to meet you. Yeah. Well, let’s go to dinner. Let’s take
it easy. An improvised dinner, right?
You see? I have a little grease on my hands.
A little. It’s really great.
Don’t cover your face. Chronic. Do you like rap?
Do you like the sea? Greeting with
the connection of the questions. Of course, if you like one thing, you have to like
the other. The third was, “Do you like me?”
No, but the truth is we became very , very good friends, and it was the
emotional support that life gave me out there in the middle of nowhere. It really is
a terrible, windy desert where you have to push your motorcycle
sideways. She had a rather tragic story that she later told me at
her house, and the next morning I could feel that the love I couldn’t see
where it came from was more of a filial love, not a passionate one. And she said some
very interesting words to me before I left her house.
In fact, look, I love you now, and I don’t want anything to happen to you. I can’t
take care of you anymore because I can’t go back. yours or ahead of you, but I’m going to
send you an army of angels who will accompany you, but you have to be
responsible to take that motorcycle and see that the only life at stake is
yours, son. You’re going to have an accident, you’re going to die, and you’re screwed,
that’s it. You’re gone. And those who remain, your mother, your father, your sister, your friends,
your girlfriends, your girls, your adoptive mother. What you’re
doing is beautiful. Learn, live. God has given us life,
but he gave us a soldier, right? Day
I was a cat. It’s a lie. Well, uh, the wonderful Miriam
surely told me what my mother would have liked to tell me before leaving.
Kid, be careful that you do whatever you want, but
we want you alive and back home for Christmas. And I tried to tell
them both that there’s only one life and that if it’s cut short, as long as you’re doing what
you want to do, then you’ll live well. Because how sad to make it longer,
but without doing what you want, right? Then we arrived at Usuaya, which
was my first objective. There I tried to find a boat to go to
Antarctica to do a couple of drifts, but I wasn’t successful on that mission, but
I was on another one. In all those days that I was going to Usuaya and those that
I was returning, I looked at the calendar and said, “Oh, could I get
to what my friend Víctor told me about?” And something very curious was happening to me. Every day
I woke up, at this moment when the brain isn’t functioning
rationally, I would have visions again, but literally, I mean, visions. I saw
things, I saw scenes, I saw, I don’t know, like things that came to me from the future.
So I said, “Oh, but I wanted to see the Torres del Paine. It’s
the place in Chile where everyone goes, and we had to wait because a lot of
people go. It’s a private place, I don’t know, I don’t know how much.” And I said, well, if I want
to get to the meeting with the plants and Grandma, I’m going to have
to miss it. And I started to trust my intuition and said, “Well, you only
have one life, but if I can extend it, maybe I can return to Chile another time
to do what I’m not doing now, but to get to this thing that
I’m suddenly feeling a very great calling to.” And after many
hours, many kilometers, many days, I arrived, I remember on February 1, 2018,
at a place called Quitralma, where some work is done—
human engineering, you could say. And in this little room, I experienced things I
‘d never experienced before in my life, because I’d never had any contact with
any of this. Suddenly, one day, a dizzy spell came over me in a bar, but not something
that put you in a trance, you know? And the door to what I was looking for, to
knowledge, began to open for me . I began to understand that
perhaps what I was searching for, although I sometimes have, wasn’t
necessarily what is sometimes aesthetically sought from indigenous people, but rather the
knowledge of the legacy of my ancestors. And there I began to
find it, but fully, at the same time as the doors of
perception were opening to me, like Aldo Saxley’s book . They didn’t know me, but they trusted
me, I suppose because they in turn trusted their intuition. And I
proposed an interview. Imagine these things that are often half-
secret and such. I told them, “Well, we can talk about this without talking about
this. Let those who know, know, and those who don’t know, imagine whatever
they want.” People have no idea why they come to
Earth, what it is. They’re searching for who I am, why I came, what lies beyond.
Dealing with the outside, because that’s what they induce us to do, because it’s what
weakens us, it fractures us, they’ve trapped us through our heads and manipulated us,
sometimes making us believe that having a salary will give us better
opportunities. And I see many who study at universities, they graduate, they have
a title that certifies that they are skilled labor, nothing more. But their
time isn’t theirs, it belongs to someone who pays to consume their time. And time
doesn’t exist; it’s Cronus, it comes from the Greeks who ate their children. Look how he manipulates us and how we’ve been
manipulated for generations. When the only truth, I feel, is being able to live in
peace and with dignity. That our children grow up with water that runs from the river, that
comes from the waterfall, that they eat from the garden. The dream, I hope one day
we’ll achieve it. Maybe we won’t see the fruits of that tree, but someone among us
will. Curiously, on February 5th, the day
I came into the world, after a night with Grandma, Grandpa,
the children of the light, and a couple of sweat lodges, we took a hike at dawn
toward this waterfall, where I was able to receive the blessing. The yachas, the
wise men of this land, have the power to convert the energy of the waterfall and,
let’s say, apply it to anyone, from the waterfall, from the lagoons, from the
mountains. Arturo always told us this, right? That we [ __ ] because
they told us the wrong way around. They told us that we had to think with our heads and feel with our
hearts. And he proposed the opposite, to think with our hearts and feel with our
heads, that if you think and feel it well, absolutely everything changes.
We were in these mountains, and this is an anecdote that I’ve probably
told to three people, and today I’m going to make it public. I decided to turn off my
phone. I didn’t want any connection at all. I was completely committed
to whatever was happening there, because the truth is, it’s a very intense job, and I didn’t
want to be disturbed by a message, checking Instagram, or anything, so I turned off my
phone, even on my birthday. So, when my dad saw
I wasn’t answering, he got really worried and went to my website. Remember,
there was this device that showed my real-time location? He saw I
was in the middle of the streets, and there was practically nothing there, and he thought
I’d killed myself. My theory was that I’d scheduled a post for
February 5th, and when my mom saw I’d posted it, she’d think
the kid was okay because he’d just posted something. I thought she’d
tell my dad, but she didn’t. So, here comes the kicker.
My dad organized a search
for a Spaniard who had gone astray, and the police started looking for me in the area
. And on the last day, February 6th,
I turned on my phone and found my messages, and right at that moment I saw
some police cars arriving at the site with some mountain guides—
just imagine, a place full of hippies. So, everything that happened,
which initially made me really angry, somehow caused
the past to be torn apart. It was a supernova in itself, because even at parties,
you have to confront your family at some point and say, “Hey, from here on out,
I’m literally in charge.” And one thing I’ve been experiencing all these years
is that everything happens for a reason. That had tremendous significance, as did something
that later happened when I arrived in Santiago de Chile. There I met this group of
female bikers called the Motograndiosas, and they decided to support me and
accompany me to the Los Libertadores international pass , which is a pass.
Beautiful thing about Chile and Argentina. We were touring the caracoles,
we were about to cross the border, and suddenly I realized two
things: the motorcycle they had just serviced in Santiago was still losing
oil, and the drone they had just repaired was still failing.
So they told me, “Agustín, come back later. I mean, go back to Santiago and
fix things, and then leave the way you should so you don’t
get into trouble later.” Then Paula told me, “Agustín, remember to always,
always, always listen to the signs.” I stayed at her house. There
was a Canadian biker boyfriend she ‘d found on the road, and while talking to
him one night over a beer, he said, “So, what
exactly are you doing, my friend?” Well , look, I’m starting a motorcycle trip
looking for tribes. I still don’t know exactly where they are, but he says, “Don’t you know
the story of the OidB brothers?” I say, “No, who are they?” He says to me, “Well, they’re
two Iranian brothers who in the 1950s traveled the world on motorcycles for 10
years interviewing tribes.” I said, “Man, how is that possible? I
thought this hadn’t been done. I thought it was the first, and of course,
listen to the signs. Suddenly, the guy tells me he had a contact in
Australia for an Indian who had gone to Santiago de Chile to visit one of the
brothers because he fell in love with a Chilean woman and lived in the
Providencia neighborhood, four blocks from where I was staying. I said, “Shit, it
can’t be, I have to go meet this man.”
So I went, I called, spoke to his wife, and I said, “Look, I know
this has happened many times since then, but I have to meet
your husband, okay?” And I’ll explain why. Because it just so happens that
I’m starting the same thing he started in the 1950s, all
things considered. And he welcomed us into his home, and look how wonderful it is.
Travel, travel, and travel. It’s better to see the world than to conquer the
world, because there are other types of people, from the moment they are born, on the path from home to
business, From club to home, from home to club
and back again. They’ve lived their whole lives . Others become bikers,
traveling freedom. [Music] The sense of freedom is everything.
And the model is the same. You feel free, like flying on two wings.
We didn’t want to be two selfish travelers; we wanted to record to share with
the rest of humanity. Well, our goals were
aligned. So, finally, with the bike seemingly ready, which wasn’t
the case, and the drone that lasted until a couple of months after I lost it in a
favela, I began the journey to Brazil, passing first through Uruguay. I say
the bike wasn’t repaired because upon arriving in Buenos Aires, right in the tricky part
of Buenos Aires, well, two hours before, the bike started spitting at me
. They hadn’t tightened the cap properly and of course, it started to boil like water in
a pot and I remember having a cloth removing oil from my face and well,
that’s when the engine started to break down a little , but luckily I made it to Uruguay.
This is a Photo of Cape Polonio, a place where I would stay to live,
which was populated by shipwrecked people from two ships about 200 years ago and
can no longer be built on because they made it a national park. So, those are the
little houses that are there and that’s how it will remain. And it’s wonderful. And of course, in Uruguay,
making a small ellipsis, I met someone very interesting whose words,
uh, are you from the political thought that Well, they reach the heart. For me, more than
a politician, he’s a poet, a philosopher, and an anthropologist, and he’s Pepe Mujica, whom
I was lucky enough to meet two years ago. Why were you born?
There was a 40 million chance that someone else would be born, and it was you. If that
‘s not a miracle, tell me what is,
okay? If that’s not a miracle.
Now, since it’s such an everyday occurrence, it’s relativized;
we don’t value it, and by not giving it value, we don’t appreciate the miracle of having
been born. Paradise is no longer before or after; it’s this, just as
it is , with its contradictions and its limitations.
It’s this: we come from nothing and go to the nothingness of nonexistence,
to the miracle of being, to return to nonexistence. We could
give Pepe a round of applause, couldn’t we? I think he’s left so much.
[Applause] How lucky, how lucky, how blessed the
moment when I left my house, so that years later this could happen.
Sometimes things happen that are notoriously good, and other times they’re
interpreted as something negative, but over time you end up being grateful
for the lesson you might not have seen at first, but you process it later
. Yes. In that sense, relationships teach a lot. Another topic
I haven’t usually touched on, I don’t know, because it moves you, right? A month and a
half before starting the trip, I went to a festival in Hungary called
Ozora, a festival in Crans. I’d never been, something like that. But I got the urge.
I convinced seven or eight friends, and off we went, and one night of
bright lights, I met this person from Croatia named
Dorotea, and in the end we fell in love. But I was leaving and I said, “How? But how do
you put this together?” No, I don’t. I don’t want to be tied down, but at the same time,
I feel something beautiful. Well, in the end I said, “Well, come to Brazil, and we’ll see how
it goes.” And of course, you always have to make a big difference between
expectations and reality. These were my expectations. This is the Elora
Festival. Okay. [Music]
It’s a lot of mud everywhere. One day you’d shower, maybe three days you wouldn’t. And
relaxed. The reality I found myself in, unfortunately, was this. At first,
I thought everything was fine with the mud, but I realized it wasn’t. This was happening. Of course, I didn’t organize
the routes well, and I tried to apologize, saying, “I’m sorry, darling, but I didn’t
think it was going to rain so much and that this road would be like this.
Here we go. Oh my God. [Music] Let’s see, between the fact that I had no idea, that
I thought the puddles were caught in the middle
, and that I also didn’t control the weights and all that. Many times I would say to him,
“Better get off. I’ll ride the bike and you walk across the puddle.” Well,
this immediately began to break down the relationship
, and the motorcycle started to sound really bad, really bad, really bad, really bad, and at the same
time, night began to fall. Imagine my ignorance, no, I mean, the motorcycle
hadn’t run into any puddles. I was thinking that water had gotten into the engine
from driving through the puddles. I also began to worry because, like
in many places, they tell you, “Hey, be careful with muggings, especially
at night.” We had already seen several people with the typical machete, so
you know later that they’re peasants, normally nothing happens, but at that
moment, your mind goes on the defensive. Then a wonderful thing happened
that I’ll never forget, which was this.
I think there’s water in the engine. So close. One, two, [Music] [Music] Well, suddenly we got really worried
because I had been seeing for a while that someone was following us, uh, I saw
a motorcycle light and I was worried. I say, “Wow, is it one,
is it two? It’s already dark, suddenly we hit a rut,
the bike fell, it wouldn’t start properly and between the nerves and all, well, you
feared the worst. I was already looking for the pepper spray I carried for
animals to try to defend myself from what they can do, right? And no, nevertheless,
this happened. [Music] [Applause] I love you . Thank you very much. Hey, what’s your name?
Moisés. For Moisés. For Moisés. Incredible. He was chasing me with the
exhaust pipe under his arm. That’s how bad the bike sounded. Well, here I learned two
things. The first is to break down prejudices. Uh, many times we think
things that have been implanted, unfounded, that someone has tried
to make us believe, for some kind of convenience and other times it’s based
on reality. I mean, it’s true that these things happen in Brazil
just like in other places. So, the number one lesson was that we have to
break down prejudices And number two was that love is complicated. There’s nothing like
a 30-day motorcycle trip to make you realize that it’s one of
the great subjects of our lives, where you fail and fail,
sometimes barely getting a five, and one day if you’re doing halfway well you get a seven on one
side and on the other. Then two things happened: the relationship broke down and
the motorcycle broke down. I arrived in Salvador de Bahía and they told me the engine was
broken, that 55 parts needed replacing, and that it was better if I found another one.
So I said, “Shit, third lesson, practice detachment from your
girlfriend and your motorcycle.” Well, I wanted to finish the five years of traveling with this one,
the five I was thinking at the time with the 650. It couldn’t be. I had to make way for
Super Supernova, a supernova but bigger . There, BMW Motorrat in Spain lent me
a hand, they helped me pay for part of the motorcycle, and the first trip
was to go from Salvador de Bahía, where I received it, to Boavista in the north,
bordering Venezuela by a three-hour border. But of course, crossing three places that
practically no one tells you about, which are French Guiana, Suriname, and
Guyana, I have no idea, but I saw that there was a road and on the way I met a
person, a person named Joselito. You can’t talk about Brazil without
including a little bit of the social reality of Brazil. I’m simply going to describe
how he described the favel he lived in. Favelas are a branch of
hell where even the [ __ ] lose control because here not even the [ __ ] rule,
he told me. I was lucky that he took me; we spent a whole day there
getting to know, understanding, very complex realities. And in the other place that I
loved on the road called La Chapada Diamantina in Brazil, I met this other
character who has been one of those whose critical messages towards how the
world works has most impacted and nourished me, whose name is Eduardo Mariño and I give you a
little piece of his words. Nasceu moro gives life to death or provide something to travel
to life. If you want a meaning other than the natural sense, which in death will
depend on your internal posture, your choices, your vision of the world,
your two feelings, your desires, your life goals, your
values. Is it appropriate for you to question what values are most important and what are the values implemented
by social inductions? This is a question that I
constantly have in my head. how Are we induced? Because sometimes I think
the smartest thing to do is to doubt what you think. I mean, when I feel
really convinced of something, I say, “Wait, wait. Could it be that I’ve been induced or have I
wanted to believe this truth for whatever reason?” An exercise that I recommend because
it seems very healthy to me, eh, is that when you’re very sure of thinking something, believing
something, feeling something, question it, because it might not be like that, because
there are many angles of truth. The thing is, I said, well for this part I’m bringing a
friend, eh, things haven’t gone well for me with my partner. Hey, I’m going to try with a friend
from my town called Manué. So, Manué took a plane to Cayén in
French Guiana. I met him there. As soon as we arrived, he threw me seven sausages and
chorizos from my town. We were in French Guiana for a short time and
headed to Suriname. To get to Suriname, you have to cross a river, a
very big river. And what we didn’t know was that we needed a visa, which you can process the
day before or the same day on the French Guiana side. What
happened? Some Argentinian guys we’d met in French Guiana had
left two weeks earlier and told us, “No, everything’s fine.
Just show your passport here and they’ll let you through.” And suddenly, we arrived and they told us
we needed a visa. We automatically thought we were being
extorted, that they were trying to steal our money and that they had bad intentions.
Then, something incredible, surreal happened: we couldn’t go back
or forward because to withdraw money, you had to do it during the day.
The place where we were getting the money from Suriname had already closed , which
I don’t even remember the name of, and by the time we got back, we didn’t have enough
euros because since we were already leaving French Guiana, we spent them all.
So what happened was that the Surinamese customs authorities
decided to lock us in customs for the night because they said
it would be dangerous if we stayed, so the best thing was for us to pack our
suitcases and camp inside customs . Surreal. But what a hilarious
moment. [Music]
[Applause] [Music] A little bit of palo santo to purify
the bad energies of this place, please . In the end, we have to use the
fire extinguishers for real. This first night in Suriname, pay a band [Music]
the money here. And
oh. Now
the guy came out staining Surinamese customs with fart , man.
The police [Music] who were great. We started acting like
hooligans. It was really hot, we were there half naked and we
were going to get drunk and we said, “Well, since we’re here, at least
let’s have a good time.” And our way of having a good time, well, it was a little
disastrous. And of course, then the question is, how induced and how
lazy? Because we could have gotten into a hell of a mess there
throwing ourselves with this board, grabbing the fire extinguishers, in short, things you get
when you’re half-witted. The next day, the strange thing was that they didn’t
want to extort us, that the visa was real, like I told you before.
They helped us get the money to return to French Guiana to get the
fucking visa and they also brought us food. So, we had such a guilty
conscience that the jungle caught up with us later.
I tell you, Guyana, it’s the hot potato of these three strange countries.
Georgetown must be like Jamaica. It’s something, I’m not in Jamaica, but like that
I can imagine it. And you get here to a place called Linden, and
I never want to do the whole distance from here again in my life.
It’s practically 500 km of mud, mud, mud, with very little in
between. I mean, one day you find gas and a place to put up your tent
and a little store to buy some tuna. I think I remember that’s
all there was. Seen from the air , it looked something like this. The road, look what it
was like. Uh, that’s where we were going that day. Well, since I keep telling so many
things, uh, we didn’t sleep at all, a story that happened. We had slept for four
hours in a 90-cm bed, he and I stuck together because my friend was afraid
that the person who was hosting us would rape him that night.
We had drawn lots, rock, paper, scissors, and I got the bed, and
in the middle of the night he said, “Dude, please let me sleep with you, I’m
all worried in the living room.” So we slept there with our backs against
each other, and the two of us were at Calicanto fighting that Amazon, which to this day is
the most brutal and savage I’ve ever seen. The truth is that the first half of the day
we were really motivated because we saw that we were doing it, but
of course, it started to rain and rain and rain. It was the rainy season, and maybe the road
closest to Georgetown still needs a little
maintenance, but you know that when you go far from one place
to another and there’s little traffic in between, that road isn’t maintained, and
things started to happen. Did you know that in Motoaventura there’s a part where
they test certain characteristics of your personality? Because if you don’t
have them, you’re going to have to develop them in situ, especially if
you have to get out of there by your own means. There’s a psychological aspect that starts to
play very strongly against you. It’s either bravery or recklessness. There’s a fine line
between one thing and the other. And of course, we found ourselves in what we consider
one of the most critical moments in terms of adventure we’ve ever experienced in
our lives. Well, there on that bridge, although the video wasn’t literally visible
, you could fall between one log and another, and it was very difficult for us
to lift the bike because our anchor point was lower than the bike’s.
So it was like a kind of weightlifting to do it like that, and there were two of us
, and we couldn’t do it. Plus, the wheel kept slipping, the logs were
soaking wet, and well, it was very difficult for us. It was a
moment of desperation in which something that made our
ancestors survive was activated, which is the attempt to survive, something that
we carry innately, and that somehow, when you know—or rather, when your
cells know that an end is possibly imminent—it suddenly
says, “Let’s all work together to get out of here.” If you don’t
have the strength, don’t worry. I’ll give you a little adrenaline so
you think you do, that this is going through your head. Don’t worry,
I’m going to secrete a little endorphin, dopamine, whatever
you want, but please get us out of here. We were there, honestly, for a very, very
long time. I mean, it was like an hour on that bridge, like in such deep jungles,
well, I thought, could it be a jaguar coming? Could it be people coming? In fact, a
truck drove by; they were from illegal mining, and they gave us a little bit of food. That day in
total was 14 hours, the day I’ve driven the most, my most tired day on
a motorcycle in my life and luckily we were able to leave, go to Brazil, go up briefly for
two days in a 4×4 because it wasn’t possible by motorcycle, to Venezuela and we went down to Manaus. From
there he left and I continued. I continued on to where, well, crossing the state
of Roraima, Amazonas, Rondonia, Mato Grosso, Matogroso del Sur. I arrived in
Paraguay, from there I went to northern Argentina, from northern Argentina to
northern Chile, I got into Bolivia and went to Peru. This is in Chile, this is
arriving at Arica. I’m going to tell you a story that I’ve never told either.
I hope my friend doesn’t kill me for this. I arrived in Iquique, which is the city
before arriving at Arica and in the hostel I think she was the one who worked there or I don’t
know, and she said to me, “I like you. Tomorrow I’ll show you, Iquique, we’ll go for a
ride.” This girl invited a friend of hers that night, she literally gave me
, like, a little bar, a little, harmless bar. And I said, “But look,
I don’t usually smoke, honestly, uh, I’m going to cross into Bolivia, I don’t want to get into
trouble at the border or anything.” He said, “No, but for Arica, in Arica you
smoke it.” I said, “Well, I’ll see. Probably not, but I’ll see.” So
in Arica, my friend Flor from Chile, the one I met in Quitralma, told me, “Hey, my
father is a writer and lives in Arica, he can see you. He lives there with his wife and
his other son.” And I said, “Okay, fine, perfect, so I’ll let your father know and
I’ll stay there with him.” I arrived in Arica, the father welcomed me, he started telling me
the history of the city, about the wars, and that night we were having dinner, drinking, and I
brought a couple of bottles of wine, and suddenly the subject of cannabis came up
, which is legal in some places, but not in others, and so on, and he said, “Well, I’ve
talked about it with my daughter Flor, and I don’t think it’s a bad idea for her to smoke.” And I said, “Oh, really
, and do you smoke?” And he said, “Well, I smoked once when
I was younger, right? But I haven’t for years.” I said, “Well, it’s just that we’re
having such a good time that they gave me this right now, Jerin and Quique. I don’t want to
take it to the border, and since I’ve been so comfortable, maybe
we couldn’t smoke it together.” Okay, yeah, we go out to the street and we do it. Anyway, the
man takes a couple of hits, and I start to see his face getting
paler and paler. Suddenly, I see him as so dizzy. I think it’s better
if we go upstairs, get some water, and you can settle down. The man went
to the bathroom, got dizzy, fell against the vine, and tore some ligaments in his
leg. The next day was the book fair , and the woman there wanted
to kill me. I was there, and I didn’t know what to look like. I mean, at what point
did I accept the other girl? At what point did it occur to me that this was a good idea?
And now, how do I explain to my friend that I’ve torn her father’s ligaments
? So, well, in the end they made me
some coca tea for the road because that day I climbed to 5,500 m to cross into
Bolivia and I left. I traveled through Bolivia and then, of course, what we said before,
there’s a universal law that when you screw up, you pay for it, and uh, traveling at
high altitude in Peru, uh, an area where I had mistaken because the map sent me
where I shouldn’t have, I paid for it. No, no, no, please. No, no, man, no, no,
please. [ __ ] the radiator, no. What a
huge mess. It was the time when I didn’t have my satellite phone, where
there was no signal, 4,500 m high. In fact, that night it was -17º. Then, I remembered
Guyana. One problem, one solution. My grater is broken,
I need someone to take it to me. It stopped. a 4×4 and they helped me. They took me to a
town called Kayoima. Cayoima or something like that was a gold mining site.
They took me to a truck repair shop where, in the end, the system was understood
to be applying a blob of cold welding so that the leak could be repaired,
and the next day, with Peruvians from deep in the middle of nowhere, we managed
to fix it. How curious that the person who rescued me is from a town
called Jerena, 50 minutes from Medellín, Extremadura. The man’s name was Álvaro
Yerena, which is a super unusual surname. God, coincidences,
coincidences, who knows. Returning to the world of quotes, the great Gabo says
that man is the only animal that stumbles twice over the same old thing.
Gabo is a friend of mine from Aranjés, right? What happened? Although I’d
suffered a lot along the way and all that, it seems that sometimes in relationships
, the bad times are put into perspective , you start to remember the
good ones, and how great this was, and how great that was, and you get back with your girlfriend and
decide to travel again. Well, I didn’t learn, I didn’t learn, and what
happened? We realized that, like , we confirmed the no.
But sometimes you have to confirm, right? You don’t have to stay with the doubt; if
it’s no, confirm it, and if it’s yes, confirm it, but don’t stay with the
doubt. So my dear Dorotea, with whom I have a good relationship today,
left just as she came. When I started to go public, since I was
very late with this part of the trip, we were no longer together, so I had to
modify all the photos with photos to make it look like I was going alone, right? Anyway
, things of the road. That’s what my friend from Aranjez said, and I say this:
to be grateful for every fall for the life it gave us. One of the things I wanted
to celebrate here today is both the triumphs and the failures. I’m not saying that
triumph gives nothing; it gives many things, but failure surely gives
more if you approach it properly. Mujica told me, when I visited him
, “Because no one learns from what they’re
told , but you learn from what you suffer.”
And you learn from what you suffer. And it’s true. So, every time you
fall, every time you screw up, every time things don’t go the way you
thought, something creeps in, well, in the end, something always comes out. And that
‘s the work of how you handle things. I still despair today
over many things. I’m still in that process. We continue the journey. I arrived in
Cuzco after the radiator fuss, all that happened, and I said, “Well, now
it’s my turn to experience Peru, the deep Peru, which I loved, it’s wild. Its
mountains are, I think, the most impressive I’ve ever seen, along with those
of Chile and Argentina. And I arrived in Ecuador, where I really want to, I’m
very excited to mention Don Casimiro Mamayacta, taita of taita,
eighth-generation shaman of shamans. His family had maintained the art of teaching
yahuasca medicine well for eight generations, and he
‘s Arturo’s teacher. So, how good it was that at the time the visions
showed me that I had to skip all those places in Chile to arrive
alone at the little house, at my grandfather’s cabin , where on many, many
moonlit nights, with lightning, and clouds, I was able to purge the scar left by the
breakup of that relationship. That’s why I went. Grandpa Casimiro went to heaven a
month ago. That’s Margarita, and wow, I have so much love for you. We can send you A
round of applause. Maybe. They cured a lot of people, a lot of
people with natural medicine. So, let’s talk about the material itself.
Let’s talk about Ayawaska. This is in Colombia specifically. I came across it and
asked an indigenous person the other day, what was recent? I asked a
Curripaco indigenous person if they were still taking it and they told me, “No, not anymore. Since
Sofía Müller arrived, it’s sort of forbidden.” I said, “And who is this
Sofía?” Who is she? Who is she? I want to know who she is. This is Doña Sofía. I
respect all religions, but what I don’t like, and this happened
50 years ago, in the department of Guainía, which I didn’t know, is that the people
were already converted to Catholicism, that is, people from outside had already come to
tell them that this was the way to believe. And another person came to tell them, “No,
no, it was almost close, but it ‘s not exactly like that. The correct way to
believe in God is this.” And I thought,
what is the vulnerability of the Native American peoples that they are susceptible at any moment
to someone coming along and telling them, “You are not in
possession of the truth? This is the truth. If you don’t believe in it, you will burn
in hell.” And since then, in the department of Guainía, Yaj is no longer taken
because it is considered a substance of Satan. Just like that. I’ll leave it there.
Sorry, I had to add a moment of criticism . It’s that along the
way, eh, I have become very sensitized to this because I have found so much
knowledge, so much truth and so much essence in the people I have visited that
in the end it makes me angry when some things happen, right? Like why don’t
we leave them with their things, with their beliefs, the ones that are theirs, why don’t
we even learn from those beliefs? So, well, in Ecuador I was
lucky enough to meet Taita Polivio, Taita Alejo and Taita Chiriboga, who is
another of the people who left a deep mark on me.
That we are not isolated units Self-sufficient, that we are
nothing without everyone, without everyone.
We are nothing without the whole sense of collectivity, of community, but
from a biological point of view, the triumph and success of our species
has always consisted of the diversification of skills, that each
one specializes in something and in that way we are stronger, we are a
much more optimal group to survive. And today we may not
realize it as much, but imagine the time when nature was much
harsher, where you didn’t know where the dangers were coming from, in the end it is that. I
mean, I am nothing without others, I mean, I need a duo at least so that
I can be there as an individual, right? And my dear ones, the time has come.
Everything we’ve been talking about, especially the bit about us being nothing without
everyone in your country, I ratified it. I want to remember what happened.
It’s true, it’s true, even though sometimes we divide,
right? And how can I not remember my first day in
Colombia, 30 minutes after entering IPALES, and that you have to have
empathy, respect, and if you can Help those who
aren’t in that situation. Hey, I want a voice with
What’s up? What’s up, man?
This was the first time this happened to me on the road, but not the last. What’s up?
How are you? How are you?
Very good. Meeting you at Perdona. Oh, my God. I’ve left the main course
for last. What’s up, bro? How are you?
Thanks a lot. Hey, it’s nice to arrive in Colombia and have your
chain lubricated in the middle of the road. Hey, I have three people here helping me out on the
motorcycle. What can I do if I want to stay longer? More people coming,
more coming to your country. [Applause] I come an average of four times a year.
I come here more than to Spain. My mother calls me, eh, she’s already looking for a place
around here to see if she sees me more, right? It’s crazy because in the end you
have all kinds of experiences along the way, but yeah, this territory
usually happens to travelers that you fall in love and get hooked from a place that
you say, “Oh, but here life is more life, right? Emotions are more
emotions and people in general are super nice. I mean, it’s like for a
traveler, especially a solo one, it’s perfect because all day long you have a
ton of interactions, you don’t get bored sometimes too many, there are intense people
too. So uh I put all this
together with a traveler that I met after all those guys.
I met all those guys on the first day, uh, I mean, very much in the first two
days. But who I met on the first day, and this was also
a surreal story, was I was recording a shot with the drone and I was already
bringing it closer to my position and suddenly I realized that someone was
approaching, like, pedaling towards me and I say, a cyclist and let’s go survey, I
mean, he was coming very slowly. And I started talking to him and he said, “I
met a Turk in the middle of the road who’s going to tell you how
long he’s been pedaling.” I said, man, Gurkan, you’ve really struck me as
[ __ ]. I wouldn’t like this to end here. Why don’t we sleep in the
same place? And he said, “But you, I mean, you’re going to go further than I
can.” And I said, “Well, how about it? What if I tow you? We arrived at a place called, I think
it was called the Strait, where after towing it, I don’t know, for about an
hour or so, a bunch of kids who lived around there joined us and we had
a fantastic night. Sometimes I think, I say, am I the only one who falls
so in love with Colombia? No, definitely not, because it happens to travelers
. It often happens that someone who comes from Alaska, heading towards Usuguaya, stays in
Colombia and vice versa. It’s like this territory traps people and well, suddenly
, well, you end up having a child, for
example, it happens a lot. The thing is, and I’ve never done this before, I had thought about
doing a video call with Gurkan so he could tell us what he
thinks, what his experience was like here, because he cycled a lot in Colombia. Oh,
I have to connect to the internet. Wait. [ __ ] What’s crazy, right?
Like over there it’s infinite. [Music] Hello,
how are you? This is Colombia, Gurcan.
[Applause] Ah, sorry for my Spanish. I speak a little
Spanish, not much, but I try to speak Spanish now.
Well, Gurkan, where are you? I’m fine, thank you. I am now.
No, no. How? Where? Where? But well, I’m glad you’re okay.
The United States in New York. Okay, okay. Well, Gurkan, I wanted to ask you the
question. I think that’s how you’ll see me. Hello. I sometimes think I’m very exaggerated
with my opinion of Colombia. So, I wanted to confirm with you that
you’re also a profound traveler. How was your experience traveling through Colombia and what
do you think of the country in general? And while you answer, I’m going to pee. Okay. Okay,
okay. Uh, my 60th country. I’ve been on the road for 15 years. I’m a cyclist, so
I can say that Colombia is my second homeland, the most beautiful women.
I met on my trip around the world. They were
Colombian on bicycles. Thanks, Agustín, for introducing me. I’m so glad to be your
friend. Thanks, Agustín. I love you, Burga. Thank you very much. See you
later. I’d say that in your country I experienced
what we could define as my beautiful COPD, my most beautiful time as a traveler in
these 7 years. I feel that for me, in terms of experience, this was the pinnacle because
two things came together. I was still at a curved point on the learning curve
. Here I learned many things. So, that gave me a tremendous input of
excitement and adventure, while at the same time, I naturally felt I
connected deeply with the people of the region, which can
legitimately happen to you more in one place than another. Then, arriving here, I began
to meet characters like Don Antonio, the former gravedigger from Barichara,
may death rest in peace, as he said, a little path that touches us all. In Jericó ,
I knew a storyteller who had a pathology: he couldn’t
stop telling stories. At first , he was cool, but two and a half hours
later, you wanted to join in, and suddenly , boom, a 15-minute story.
And he told me that he genetically couldn’t keep quiet. And well,
it was hilarious. Then I met a friend’s father in Machetá, who is an
impressive multidisciplinary artist. And there was something I found in his house that
really caught my attention: he had the house full of little pigs, little
piggy banks. But, Don Gonzalo, what does this mean? Each of these pigs
represents the different actors in this country’s armed conflict, because
they all have one thing in common: they all, in some way, want money. And I said,
“Wow, holy crap, one day I’m going to [ __ ] a hammer and I’m going to do a
performance where, on a Colombian flag, I’m going to blow them all up with
a lot of enthusiasm. I don’t know if he has done it. I fly a lot. I’m a violent flyer.
I started to soak up a little bit of the things that happen around here and what the
thoughts are on one side and the other. But above all, I got carried away, I started to soak up
humanity. I came to your house, Julián, with plans to stay two days and I
stayed for a month. They had to kick me out. That’s him and his mother celebrating me on
February 5, 2020. And a lot of things were happening. Here I started to take into account the
paisas who suddenly started to introduce me to their family, their uncle, their
cousin, I have a friend, but come to this as a proposal, proposal, proposal,
doors that open, almost none that close. And he said, “I’m going to
introduce you to my aunt who, you’ll see, makes the best eh arepas in Itahí.
I’m still digesting it.” [ __ ] it was quite fatty, it was very
tasty. Suddenly, eh, he introduced me to other friends who is responsible for the stick
I have on the motorcycle. Norberto also with his family, right? But come, stay
if I go to his house, he welcomes me with some empanadas, with the lulo juice that I
like . There it is. A lot of things started to happen. A kid told me that his
teacher showed him the videos of the tribes in class and we went there,
we had a talk. There was a shoot that year, just before I met
Jack, I met him that day. Jack introduced me to a lot of friends here in
Medellín and when you go on a trip you think about those dreams that you’re not
dedicating much time to, but that you would like to, right? Suddenly there is one of
those dreams that consumes all your time and most of your energy and
the others are kind of set aside. So I said to Jack,
“Jack, man, I’ve been rapping since I was 15 years old. I don’t think I’m very good, but
I think I could be mediocre. And do you have any friends you could
introduce me to with a studio where I can record the songs I didn’t record from the
ages of 18 to 21? And he said, “Yeah, I know someone in Aranjuez named
Sheik Henry. Even though he’s imposing with his gaze, I remember us meeting at the
brown parchment. I played him the song I wanted to record and he said, “Oh, dude,
this is… this is really weird, but there’s something about it.
You’re out of rhythm, you’re off-key, but oh well, I think we can
help you, I think you’re in good hands.” So I went over there and
started recording my songs in Aranjuela. I haven’t released many of them
because I’m embarrassed, but they were things I needed to get
out and they were recorded. One thing led to another, and this is where my
dear friend Juancho, whom I’ve seen, comes into play. Thanks for coming, bro. I thought
you weren’t coming. You’re coming from recording the second season of 100 Years of Solitude. He’s in
charge of all the music for the series. A big round of applause for him because he’s one of
the best musicians in your country. Juancho, from Puerto Candelaria.
Then, one day Hunter, the producer from there, tells me, “Bro,
one of the guys from Puerto Candelaria from Merlín Producciones told me
that if you want, they’ll master the songs for you, and I said, [ __ ] but they’re going to sound better
than they really are.” I mean, I mean, a very good sound, but
There’s still a bit of development to be done there , right? So I said to myself, “Don’t
worry, we’ll do all the masters for free with one condition: that
you record a track with us.” And I freaked out. I said, “No, say these people have
grami, that’s it, I’m a [ __ ] guy. What [ __ ] am I recording with these people?” And
what a joy to overcome fears, Guancho, and that last year we recorded the song
that although it hasn’t come out yet, there it is. It’s going to come out. Thank you very much.
Be yourself, not like another kid. We are the softest.
It’s with music, it’s with the sport of my dear friend, who is also around
here. And he took me paragliding. What if the people from the house in the air sell
tacar for a while, that I arrive at the Sierra Nevada and I join the Arawaks and suddenly
I begin to soak up their worldview and origin. Then everything
was perfect. The Velpo POC was like growing apparently without limits
until suddenly this [ __ ] caught me here, caught me in your country.
And at first, the truth is, I took it very badly. It was like it can’t be, I’m going to
stop traveling, all this is happening, people are dying, this is
crazy. I was addicted to freedom because I took the right to be free very seriously
. Also, I got sick. I used to say, Gananda, that everything has its season
and every purpose its time under the heavens. And I, the truth is, since I had
just been healed by Grandpa Casimiro in Ecuador, arrived in Colombia very hot,
very hot. So, I messed up where I shouldn’t have and I got sick, but I
got sick but badly, badly, badly. I had an infection of the [ __ ] that got complicated and
that caused María Antonieta, the name I gave to my hemorrhoids,
which I had to live with for a long year until, thanks to the help
of people like Simón, 9 months and three operations later, I was able to get ahead
because things got very complicated for me. The truth is that I learned, I learned that you have to know how
to direct your energy. I was able to return to Colombia and say, “Well, the pandemic
paralyzed the trip. What a wonderful opportunity now to resume from
another perspective. But I couldn’t go to Panama because Panama was closed with
Costa Rica. So I said, well, man, between how much I’ve liked this, how much fun
I’ve had, I mean, well, I think I’ll spend another year here, that is, another
complete trip around the country that went much further. So, I came back with
great enthusiasm and, dear friends, we already know that eagerness is not good,
that it can take you to places, well, I don’t know, like a ravine. My bike
went off , man. [ __ ] No, man, I don’t know how it happened
that I pushed the accelerator a little too hard because I had been
without a [ __ ] bike for 8 months and if there’s vegetation you’re saved and if there’s no vegetation you fall 40
m into a river. So, it’s great that despite the advances in
deforestation in the world, in the Sierra Nevada there’s still a lot of vegetation. A
little tree broke when the bike fell, but the second one stopped me and stopped the
bike. Luckily, the motorcycle fell first, because otherwise it would have destroyed me.
And we’re back to these kinds of extreme situations where you suddenly go into
shock and somehow have to keep going. And how do you keep going
? Well, by calling someone to come and help you, with people,
a donkey, and a rope. And since unity is strength,
we started to keep going. That night, I had no choice but
to get completely drunk. When you have an experience like this
, you know, where you find yourself trying to grab onto things, it feels really long. It
probably doesn’t even last a second and a half, but it feels really long.
Someone here knows about it, so I’ll tell you about it later . With Simon Ice, one of the
greatest adventures I’ve been lucky enough to have in my life. The idea was
both to have a great time on a good motorcycle adventure with a friend, a great plan, and
to get to know the reality of the Guayu people . So we contacted an NGO
there, Guayu was born, and they took us to the ranch, showed us around, and all that,
but of course, they accompanied us for a stretch. From there, we continued on our own. And
then, continuing on our own until Cabo de la Vela, seeing the reality of the
people, the way the children look, and especially the duty of children in the
Hawaiis. You know how it is? I said, “Fuck, sometimes you associate it with
certain realities of the world, with places like Africa, India, around there, and it’s here
too.” And you start to learn about their daily lives and how their
bellies swell from the bacteria from the animals that drink there and all that, and
at least you become a little aware, even if it’s just a little. The fact is that in
Gabo de la Vela, we met two guys who showed up there one
night. They introduced themselves as guides and told us they could take us to
Macuira there, whose capital is in Nazareth, the capital or largest town.
We knew that of the 100% that go to La Guajira, only 10% go to La Macuira. And
at that moment, it didn’t occur to me to think that there must be a reason. I saw on the map that it was
a green ecosystem in the desert. The guy told us he was from Nazareth,
that his family lived there, and I said, “Wow, if we go with someone from
there, this is perfect.” And that’s when I was really scared. We were scared, really
. A lot of things happened, I already told you about it in the video, eh, a chain of
errors. The guy wasn’t actually from there and he insisted on taking us to some
waterfall. I flew the drone, Simón with the guide smoking, eh? And in the
end, they gave a guy money to take us because his mother
had said no, man, they almost killed us, I mean, literally. Luckily, we didn’t.
They burned the motorcycles. And suddenly, when we went down to the place, because we never
found the waterfall, it happened that, well, there were 20 people waiting for us
with their machetes drawn, shouting in Wayunike, very angry, and with good
reason. We literally did everything wrong. One thing led to another, and in certain
parts of the world, if you screw up in a certain way, it’s understood that you
did it on purpose, that it was voluntary. Therefore, I have no reason to feel
sorry for you, especially when our law is the law of retaliation. You messed up;
you know how to pay, right? Well, luckily they extorted us the
next day, we had to buy some things, etc., etc., etc.
We got out of there okay, and that’s stuck in our memories. It’s a magical territory for
me. The macro is impressive. What a shame they took the
drone shots, because I don’t think there are any. Wow, it’s so beautiful. It’s just gorgeous. It’s
literally a green oasis with a mountain, eh, and all around it, a little brown. I don’t
recommend you go or not go, just be careful if
you do, okay? Here I reflected for the first time on the trip about
true fear, that is, the fear that shakes you, the fear that makes you fall to
your knees and beg for your life, literally, we had to do that.
And there was a person in Jericó, a town full of characters, who one day
spoke to me about what this is, why we came here, right?
That we came to this world for two things: to
conquer fear. If you don’t conquer fear, fear kills you. That sends you
to the other side. And the second is to conquer happiness. By fair means or
foul, there’s no other way. And when you conquer those two, brother, you feel like
you’ve already got everything, the rest comes as a bonus. If you’re not
afraid and you’re happy, what worries you in life? Death is right there. I feel it
right next to me. I want to see it face to face so I can mock it in the face. No, maybe
that day he’d tell me, “Come on, you were really nagging me that he was going to
challenge me, and I’m going to give him a boil here. And a hernia, serious stuff. Well, in the
end the story at Macuira ended well. Uh, a
deal was made, they took the drone plans from me, we paid, I don’t know if it was a million and
a half, 2 million pesos that Simón was able to negotiate that it wouldn’t be in cash,
but in school supplies. And the funny thing was, man, before we left,
this guy who said that if he punched you he’d change your
sexual orientation, he said to me, “Hey, if you want to go to the waterfall
we’ll talk about it.” I said, “But dude, you’ve made a
lawsuit.” I mean, uh, we’ve been scared, we’ve feared for our
lives and now you’re telling me that if we pay you more he’ll take us, right? Let’s go somewhere else
. And I want one person, since we invited him before To Gurkan, now
we’re going to give it a try and see how it goes. Let’s welcome Simón. You’re live, Simón.
Wow, greetings. Hello, how are all of us who have been inspired by this
man, this journey, this route? A big hug. How nice to be there,
dear Simón. Since we’ve been companions on great adventures and
we have Mongolia pending, eh, I ‘d like
you to summarize in a couple of minutes what the trip to La
Guajira was like for you, how would you summarize it. Well, I think La Guajira was
motorcycle therapy because the desert
is something that takes you inside, right? So the trip was always an
introspection. I think what we did It was an inner journey, talking
between headphones, maintaining that therapy , and what we had done, what we were,
what brought us there, and also encountering the lives of people so
far away. It was all very magical , and at the same time, it was also very
harsh. It led us to an experience of being a palabrero. I think
we experienced what it was like to be a palabrí , finding balance with
words. Because we found ourselves in a very, very difficult situation, and everything was about
words, everything was about character, everything was about the way we conveyed it, and well,
we came out well, hugging people, but it was a very internal process, very
beautiful, really. What does traveling in mode mean to you? What do
you feel about life and what do you feel when you do it? Because I’ve
traveled with you, and I know that your way of experiencing it is like squeezing the juice out
of the juice. So, I’d like to know your opinion on that.
Well, I don’t know. When I was little, people used to ask me , “What do you want to be when
you grow up?” I said, “Hawaiian.” I want to be Hawaiian. I was just thinking about that
man’s energy that’s there all day. My reference for this motorcycle experience
is the long-haired guys who are so rebellious and it’s anarchic.
I feel like traveling by motorcycle, moving around by motorcycle, is like the anarchic stimulus
that everyone has inside, and you kind of unleash it, and in some way,
being a rider is like, “Wow, yeah, I have the brand, yeah, I feel like it brings out the most
rebellious in me.” And yes, as I said just now, I think riding a motorcycle is
motorcycle therapy. It’s something very introspective and it really makes you recognize yourself, it makes you
be careful, and when you have someone in the back, you’re too responsible. So much
so that sometimes I remember traveling with my girlfriend in the back and saying like, “Shit,
I’m the owner of her life right now, faggot.” Like, “Wow.” I think it’s a very
responsible and very anarchic action at the same time.
Well, uh, you’re my favorite responsible anarchist . We say goodbye to you. They’re going to say goodbye to you
with a big applause. I love you, brother.
I do. How lovely. Thank you.
See you later. The best. Thanks for inspiring us,
Agus. The best. Take care. It’s mutual. You’re welcome. Broccoli.
There you go. It’s just that whenever we send each other an
audio, that’s the first word. Broccoli.
Sometimes he calls me “babysaurus,” you know? Like a baby dinosaur. He’s crazy.
Anyway, what’s clear, talking about all this, is that if you want something
, you have to work for it. And well, I feel like we learned a lot from that trip
that added more than it subtracted. Wow. This was my motorcycle trip
through Colombia, and the really small parts don’t show up because of the map, nor
do the ones I’ve come to later with other means of transportation, right? But of
all of America, the country I’ve traveled the most is yours because I feel
like it’s a university, I mean, you learn a lot. You learn about love,
you learn about war, you learn about needs, you learn about other ways of
life. And for me, one thing I really appreciate is that, in general
, you can make friends with anyone , regardless of their
social class. That’s not always the case in other countries, like Panama
. It’s much more difficult because they categorize you from the start based on certain things they see,
and I might make friends with you, but maybe not with you. And life is so beautiful and
diverse that, well, I really like this. The fact is that, in the end,
I spent almost a year, plus a year and a half, just traveling in Colombia.
And as they say, scabies with pleasure don’t itch. I’ll keep doing it.
What? And if it stings, it doesn’t mortify.
Well, then this has been the slogan they’ve given it, right? Colombia, the
country of beauty, very well brought, very well, because since I arrived I found
places like the Chicamocha Canyon, the large and wide parts of the Magdalena,
the small ones at its source, impressive rivers like the Metas, routes like
this one from Saravena to Pamplona, many high routes through the páramo, places like the
springboard of death, the snow-capped mountains. What’s going on?
Ah, it’s already messed up. Too much beauty.
Too much beauty. Places like the estoraques in Ocaña. The cocui, the
incredible cocuy, the pulpit of [ __ ]. This route from Barichara by oo, what was it like? Or
MAGA, right? With Gonzaga. By Gonzaga. Highly recommended place. The Héjar Canyon
. That place is impressive. In Guaviare, there are also amazing sites like the
Cerro Azul pictograms. Orion’s Gate , which, although very
touristy, is truly beautiful , even though it’s artificial.
Amazing sites like the Tatacoa Desert. I was so happy to be able to promote
tourism in Las Ventanas del Tisquisoque. Not to boast
—I’m not looking for that—but it’s true that after that video, a lot of
people started there, and it’s great to see tourism develop in areas that were still
somewhat untouched, having such treasures. I was recently in this place, and it’s
where the Guaviare River mixes with the Inírida River. And further
on, that mixture of Guaviare and Inírida mixes with the Atabapo River, which runs
between Colombia and Venezuela, giving rise to the Orinoco. And I went there because
I didn’t know anyone who had been to Guaviare; that kind of thing
interests me. And I went over there and said, “Oh, I’m going to take some shots of the
Mavicure hills.” You’ll see. [Music] Subnormal, I mean, a bib-wearing idiot,
as my mother says, a bib-wearing idiot. I had already recorded 5 minutes of the boat
and I said, “No, but I want one on the side and suddenly go up and see
the hills later and then at dusk and at dawn I record it and man and I lose the
drone and I say, it can’t be, eh, I’m missing, I’m going to miss the most
important shot of Guainía, which are the Mavicure hills. However, we are
in Colombia and in Colombia these things happen.
Well, the truth is that I didn’t count on losing the drone in the water. It’s a shame
because I had left the Mavicure hills for the last moment, but
we are in Colombia and in Colombia they always help you, so
it was time to record it. [Music] I had lost the drone, I was
worrying and in less than 40 minutes I had not one but two, but not for me
to use at that moment, but for me to take them and I took the two drones.
So, this is not mine. It will not be William’s.
William, come here to scenario that the person who lent me the
drone for a month because I was going to Spain came and said, “Take it to Spain and
then give it to me in Medellín. Come here and I’ll give you what’s
due to you.” We received it with loud applause, brother.
That’s great. Thanks. Why did you do this, man?
Why are we a tribe? There’s no tribe of one.
It was too late to change the name, brother. Well, I thank you
very much, huh? And I think I’ve taken reasonable care of it.
The gimbal is shaking a little, but I think you did that.
Thank you, brothers, with much love. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Raro.
Take care. See you later.
Wait, William, can you come? You know what’s going on?
The purpose of this event today, besides getting together and doing a good
review, was to collect, to gather a lot of
school supplies. And I’m going to Chocó on Monday to take it with a friend, and it was
to say, “Can you lend it to me for another week?”
[Laughter] We lent it to him.
Yes, obviously, obviously. Thank you very much. Now it’s
time. Thank you, William. Thank you, William. What this man said is very
true. In Colombia, the more you travel, the more
beautiful things you find. [Music] [Music]
[Applause] [Music]
That’s right. I loved traveling around it, and I still
love doing it. The time has come to leave Colombia in the past.
We still have a while to go; we’re halfway there. I told you it’s going to
be long. Now I’m stepping on the gas. The idea was that I wanted to cross to Panama by
boat, that is, on a sailboat, but since the
pandemic was still a bit recent, the sailboats weren’t carrying motorcycles, but
we were already on the coast, super far from the second option, a little more boring,
which was to send it by plane from Bogotá to Panama City. So, uh, in the end
there was no other option and I was with my friends from Cielo, a skydiving school
that I highly recommend. And well, my friend Pablo from Madrid, who
was with us, had the idea, he said, “Hey, why don’t you ask Nico
to take the motorcycle for you on the plane to Girardot and from there you go to
Bogotá?” Well, I hadn’t thought about it and in fact we’ve never done it, but
we can try and we tried. [Music] Oh, God, God.
[Music] The process was long, tedious, and
excessively hot, but thanks to teamwork, we were able to get Super
Supernova onto the plane, which would save her almost three days on the road to Bogotá. However
, we would soon discover that every shortcut comes with a price. We have it in gear. We have it
in gear, and it won’t give us neutral. That’s it. And that’s how you get a motorcycle inside a
plane. That one.
Exactly. Like that. I was very happy. I say , “Holy crap, man,
a motorcycle flying in a skydiving plane . How crazy, right! How impressive the
departure from Colombia is. I was even glad I didn’t take the glider. But of course,
when a motorcycle is lying down in that position for three hours, eh, flying through the air
of your country, well, suddenly it would be good advice upon arrival to leave it
vertical for a while before starting it, right? Well, I didn’t do it and this happened.
Feel the pure vibration. Don’t let the devil get inside you.
Feel the pure vibration and enjoy it. Find the exit to get out of here.
Feel it, feel it, feel it, feel it. [Music]
I think this is the moment when we should take a picture with the
plane and the motorcycle. Like this, just the tubes. Slowly. It’s
going to hide. Very carefully, we lowered the
motorcycle from the plane. This time, with a ladder and a lot of help from a friend.
Well, the runway we arrived at is the one used for
weekend skydiving . The next step, in principle,
would be simple. Inflate the tires, replace the parts we had removed
, and travel to Bogotá. [Applause] Did you see that? That’s what you call a serious
mistake. Did you see that? That’s what you call a
poor fool. What happened? It won’t start. Poor fool.
[Music] I can’t believe it. What’s wrong with you, man? Well,
the thing is, to err is human, and one should talk about the things
one can control. And since that’s not my case, I’m going to call Brian from
Autogermana on stage. Please, Brian, come here. Because to err is human, but
to help is much more human. And thanks to the repairs
they did against the clock at Autogermana in Bogotá, we were able to have the bike ready on time because
I had already paid for the flight to Panama. So, I want to thank you and
your team for staying those two nights
until 1:00 a.m. fixing my bike. Big applause for Brian and his
team, the best mechanic I’ve met in these
seven years. So, Brian, I wanted to tell you, or rather ask, what did
I do wrong? What they saw, and I told him on the call that day at 5:30 in the afternoon,
Agustín, is, “Don’t pull a Colombian stunt.”
I told him like this. He said, “What do you mean?” And I said, “No, go try to start the
push.” And then, “That’s wrong.” And I said, “No, it’s just that it’s neither
good nor bad. No, it doesn’t fit.” And he said, “But the manual doesn’t say it
can’t be fitted.” I said, “But it doesn’t say it
can be fitted either.” So, unlike a small motorcycle, this motorcycle has a
chain tensioner, which is what moves the hydraulic shafts. It needs oil to
prevent damage. Since it didn’t move properly, it bent
valves, hit the piston, and a few other things we found
from the country bumpkins we talked about that day. We arrived on Monday,
Agustín was waiting for us, and he said, “Well, we can check it, but
I need it by tomorrow because my motorcycle papers
expire tomorrow , and if the motorcycle doesn’t come out, it’ll have to stay
because they won’t renew my papers.
The Diante will break you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all do it once a year.
Normally, we don’t have these parts. I told him, “Let’s go check it.” We check it, and
everything’s there. We send for everything, we put the motorcycle together,
typical.” 11:00 p.m. We started it, and it didn’t sound right. I wrote to him,
saying, “Agustín, the bike started, but it doesn’t sound right.
And what did you do? We stayed and took it apart again.
We took it apart, started it again , like at 1:00 a.m. It started well, it sounded
good, we said, “That’s it for the night.” And we came back at 6:30 a.m.
to finish it. Why? Because he had to go
to Colombia for a year, and he’s spending the last two days.
An excellent team, all committed, everyone stayed, everyone got it done, and
that bike rolled out of the workshop that day at 9:00 a.m. with eight
other friends. Agustín, brother, deeply grateful to you and
your team, because thanks to you I was able to continue the trip. A big round of applause
for Brian, please. Now comes something completely
unexpected that wasn’t in the plans. Did you see how it rained yesterday?
Look, we stayed here until 11:00 p.m. because we were having some
technical problems, and in the end… Since everything happens for a reason, I was glad it
happened because I was returning to Medellín after a long day. I came back
from Spain on Thursday, and in that downpour, I was saying, “God help me
,” because I really couldn’t see anything, not even with my visor up or
down. It was, I think, one of the three rainiest days
of my life. I was recording, well, I’m not recording here anymore, I wasn’t recording.
nothing with the motorcycle, but I said, “What are you doing? It’s raining so much that I’m going to record.”
And look what I recorded. Haste is not good, especially with
all this rain. Mother, [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] What
the [ __ ] kid got into. Oh my God, he was going too fast, man. Are you
okay? He was going too fast. Are you okay? Are you okay? Did you hurt yourself?
I didn’t see him hit. I think he hit that branch. Oh my God, kid.
This accident happened during the downpour last Friday on the road from
Medellín to Caldas. Considering what it could have been, the kid was pretty
okay, but the surprise was what happened next.
What was up with that branch? Did the branch get stuck or something?
Boy, don’t you even talk. Let’s see, wait and see if it starts.
Oh, [ __ ] Give me more, give me more. Brother, if you want, leave the motorcycle here and
I’ll take you because I don’t think it’s going to start.
However, he didn’t want to, because the probability of it being stolen was
very high. Do you want me to take mine? If
you want, I’ll take you anywhere, but we have to move now, but for
safety, more than anything. After insisting for a while, he opted to call
a tow truck. Are you going to call? Okay, then good luck.
So I ended my attendance. Holy crap, man. What’s this crazy,
man? But before I left, he noticed the sticker
on my motorcycle. Yeah.
Ah, his [ __ ] mother. [Music]
Man, buddy, how could I not stop helping you?
Of course, three.
Look, do one thing, write down my number and tomorrow you come to the event I’m doing.
You won’t be able to come even on a motorcycle, I imagine, but we’ll find a way.
I’ll follow you. I’ll follow you. Let’s call Edwin on stage, he’s
come after saving himself from a real mess. [Music]
Where are you, Edwin? Come on, Soul of a Pitcher.
Hello. Hello. Everything happens for a reason, bro. My
friend saved his skin yesterday. He could have hit his head on the
curb. A truck could have come from behind and run him over. I mean, I don’t
want to scare you, but I think you already know. And well, uh, I’m very happy to
have met you and that you came to the event. How are you feeling?
Uh, good. I wasn’t expecting this. Of course, the whole
time I was helping him, he was in shock, not to mention [ __ ] that [ __ ]
slid like, what? 12 13 met, I mean, it was like
15 like that.
I went, I just saw myself and I hit here there, [ __ ] I rolled a lot
and no and it wasn’t a branch, it was a piece of bamboo from a tree that had fallen. And and
and Why did I thank you? Because it wasn’t you.
Because here the friend was in Avanzadilla and he fell for me, so
I could see it. Well, from the Castrol team and
at my express request so you’re more protected, next time we’re going to
give you a helmet, kid. Come on.
Thanks a lot. I know your hair stands on end, man. Not her.
Now I’ll tell you about the route from here to get back to Medellín. Be careful, okay?
You were going fast, dude. Around 60. But,
but, who saw a [ __ ] log in such a tremendous downpour?
The power of nature is impressive. A round of applause for Edwin. Thank you very much, everyone.
Are you okay? Let’s see, are you going to faint or something? Okay.
Well, let’s be very clear and we’ll finish this off, there’s one thing
I’ve observed in your country and I observe it in daily life so you
realize, because sometimes we relativize the place we are in
And we stop thinking about who we really are. And what I think about you,
Colombians, is that there’s much more that unites you, despite the
hardships, than what separates you. And in my opinion, always, as the slogan says,
Colombia, the danger is [Applause]
that you’ll want to stay, and that’s why I constantly return here to the part about
Colombia. Thank you very much. [Applause]
There will always be more. There will always be more. Okay, now let’s go quickly, okay?
Panama. One thing I want to say, something I want to show that sums up the
indigenous feeling from North America to Patagonia, is what
Clementina told me in this camp for people displaced by a hydroelectric plant.
They want to take ownership of all of our land. They say it’s
private land. We call it ancestral land, indigenous territory.
We are not invaders or intruders. They’ve stolen our land.
That’s right. They’ve taken what we have and made it their title. Business is done
behind the backs of the people, behind the backs of the Panamanian people, behind
our backs. Territories are sold, people are sold, water is sold,
forests are sold, the entire ecosystem is sold without the consent of
our creator. We haven’t stolen from him. They haven’t stolen, they haven’t plundered, they haven’t
beaten, they haven’t murdered, they’ve imprisoned us, they’ve detained us, and they’ve
done everything to our generation. These words, in my experience, based on
what I’ve seen in these seven years of travel, are true. Up to that point. The least
we can do is give them space to reveal what the majority suffers. I went to Costa
Rica, and not content with putting the motorcycle in the small plane, I tried to do it
in a helicopter. Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know, maybe it would happen, but
in the end it wouldn’t. And we were able to do something very similar to what we’re here for today.
We were taking a bunch of materials and things to a remote
indigenous community in the Talamanca mountains . Why? Because
even though there is so much evil in the world, I know there are more
good souls than bad. That’s undeniable, and it’s proven by traveling every moment.
As the biker version of Audrey Hepburn said, we have two hands: one for
the gas and the other for helping others. What we’re going to do on Monday
is take everything you donated today to a remote community in Chocó
called Arusi. 275 children from that village and
a neighboring one are invited to attend on Tuesday. So I want to thank you and give yourselves a big round
of applause for having agreed to the sole requirement
of attending this event today. Well, in Nicaragua, regarding the police situation,
karma works in mysterious ways, and I felt really bad for having
publicly denounced this attempted bribe, for trying to extort money from me in the middle of the
road, because for two weeks I was receiving messages telling me
that the person had tried to commit suicide twice because they’d been fired
from their job, it was a national embarrassment, such and such. Then they interviewed her,
she denied it, it turned out to be a lie. And on the other hand, I received messages saying
that I had participated in giving false testimony in trials against political prisoners
. Do you know that the political situation in Nicaragua is complex?
Karma works in mysterious ways. I ‘m neither proud nor sorry.
Things happened the way they did. We crossed into Honduras. In Honduras
, I had the second most difficult route of my life. With whom? With this guy. That way,
his feet didn’t get any worse than mine because he was carrying a hard boot, in
Hard. Well, I guess we could talk to him, right? Let’s go talk to Charlie, who’s been
waiting for an hour and a half. He’s made me wait more than once, eh.
I’ll tell you too. What’s up, Charlie? What’s up, man?
How’s it going, Colombia? Charlie, briefly, in a couple of
minutes, I’d like you to tell people here how our
trip through Honduras was for you. Go ahead. Well, it was like what we like,
Merengal is one of the good ones, right? We got together, we’re friends, Agus and I have been
friends for many years, and it was the first time, and so far the only time, that
we’ve traveled together. I think it was three or four days, a very, very
spectacular area of Honduras called La Mosquitia, and the truth is that
we were traveling on a pretty steep, quite difficult road
, lots of mud, slopes, lots of holes. Physically, it was very hard, to be honest.
We both had moments of suffocation, of being stuck there, of not being able
to go on—well, of being able to go on, but of having to fight it out—and the
coexistence was spectacular. The truth is, we didn’t know either because we’re
very good friends, but clean, right? You know how much friendship you have with someone when
you have to spend three days stuck in the mud, pulling the bike, pushing,
helping each other, supporting each other physically and mentally, right? Because
sometimes one of us fails, and sometimes it’s the other who fails and
has to support, and so on. So, the coexistence was spectacular;
the journey was incredible because it’s a very special area of the planet and of this
wonderful Latin America, which belongs to everyone, and this is a very, very
special part because not many people pass through there. In fact, the route
we took was quite unique, and we were looking for a road we didn’t even
know existed, a path that would take us to the Mosquito Coast, to the
deepest part of this little Amazon there. And we never found it, and
it turned out there was. Then I found it later, and it’s another path, well, one
of the most spectacular I’ve ever taken in my life, right? So, the trip
with Agus was incredible. We reached the coast. I think that in the memories of both
him and me, and of everyone who saw those videos, there will be a
very legendary dance we did in a little town called Limón, eh, late
at night with our feet wrinkled from all the water we
carried and all the humidity from every day. And when we got there, we arrived at a
place with incredible music, and we did a dance without rhythm, at least
I did. He has a little more rhythm, but I have no rhythm at all, but we
managed. So, this is the story. It was a pleasure to travel through Honduras with you,
dear. Thank you for helping me since I started, literally. I
will always be grateful, and I hope to see you soon. I love you, Charlie.
Hugs to everyone. Go Colombia. Go.
Bye. Well, after Honduras, we moved on to El Salvador, where I was caught
during the time of all this, the Bukele madness that
completely changed the country. In 2015, they had 105 murders per 100,000 inhabitants,
the worst rate on the planet, and last year they had 1.9. In other words, it’s
become one of the safest countries in the Americas. So Aldu
Saxley said this, right? That traveling is discovering that we’re all wrong
about other countries. Traveling shows that. I was also a little scared
because I’d heard a lot of things about El Salvador. You go there, it just happens to be your turn.
A time and suddenly, boom, you break prejudices. I also found some miners
who caught my attention because , uh, they were artisanal gold miners who, with
pick and shovel, sometimes extracted gold without pay for a whole month and of course without
insurance or anything in those kinds of places , just to maybe extract a nugget. A
little different.
We work here Monday through Friday. Do you have occupational
risk prevention insurance ? No, here, as I said, here you work
voluntarily, there’s no insurance for anything. I mean,
I mean, without insurance for anything, I’d put you here every day.
Every day, exactly. Here you work voluntarily, I mean, there’s no salary,
so go ahead, that tells you everything. I mean, sometimes we work a month, two months
without seeing a dollar. This, ah, the famous paranormal event in El Salvador. I’m not
going to tell you about it today; I’ll tell you about it on El Camino del Viento, which will be the book
I’ll start writing soon. Sorry. We continue. Guatemala. In
Guatemala, I fell a lot. There are falls that burn
and falls that sting. That was one of the many falls
I would have that day in Guatemala, wasn’t it? Well, in the end, that night, I had to
activate my satellite phone. These police officers, whom I invited to breakfast the next day
, came to my rescue . They told me, “Look, we’ve
rescued many foreigners over the years, and you’re the only one
who invited us to lunch. We’re grateful for that. I thanked
all of them for going out into the middle of nowhere to try to get me out because the
truth is I was in a very complicated place. Well, you travel and you soak up
all kinds of realities, right? Sometimes they’re beautiful and sometimes they aren’t. This man
over here on the left, uh, José Raúl Ortiz, I recorded a video for him in which he said
that the job of a police officer is to protect the citizen, even giving one’s life for them.
And unfortunately, a month and a half ago, a woman called saying she was
having problems with her husband, he was violent. They went there, the
police arrived, the man started shooting at them, wounded one and killed him. Since
I know his son watches the Su Tribus project, I’d like us to send another round of
applause to this family, because the man was consistent, he was consistent and gave his
life to protect to another person. We arrived in Mexico, a place where I’ve
experienced all the facets of life that one can experience during a trip. I started out
very impressed by places like Chiapas. This is impressive. The
Sumidero Canyon, which, as beautiful as it looks, is filled with [ __ ] down below because
all the garbage gets there. The Orizaba Peak, one of the places I liked most in the
country, the Sierra Madre. I still remember the pounding of my heart
as I crossed that area of Oaxaca, where I had the opportunity to meet many
people from the territory, these people from the Oaxacan coast, the uelitas who
work with mushrooms. You know there’s a lot of tradition there, from the
totacas of Veracruz, to a blind man who sculpts a bunch of clay
figures of his wife. What’s that? What beauty! I was with the Mayans in
their different forms, with the heirs of the Mayans. Of course, in the
north I had the opportunity to meet the real Don Juan de Castaneda, who
‘s a real hunk. 110 years. There are 5,000 indigenous ethnic groups in nine countries. That
represents 5% of the world, about 370,000 inhabitants. And yet
they are considered the poorest 15% in economic terms. And I say in economic terms
because what is poor and what is being rich? Here’s Don Juan, the other don.
Juan de la selva La Candona told me that he was profoundly rich, because if
he had a jungle, he was rich, and if he didn’t, he was poor. The economic term in their
mentality depended on whether they had nature or not. That’s how they tend to think, and that’s why
they often suffer. Three basic concepts of
indigenous cosmology: Inlakes, jalaken. The Maya greeted each other like this. Hello, and they would say inlaces,
which means I am your other you. To which they respond, hello, also saying
jalaken, which means you are my other self. Already in the greeting, duality is incorporated
, the concept of commonality. In Africa, there’s something similar called
Ubuntu, the “I am because we are.” We return to what Arturo Chiriboga said, right?
Then the Aini, also from the Andean highlands, especially in Peru,
reciprocity. There’s a reciprocity between you, we, what we do
and don’t do with the whole. I found a lot of human richness in Mexico, a lot, a lot,
a lot, but everything has two sides, and Mexico has some
complicated realities, and also, like everything in life, it can suffer the
unforeseen consequences of riding a motorcycle. [Music] Edwin, that one hurt me more than it did you
yesterday, eh, I assure you. I was barely able to walk for a month.
Well, in the end, the helmet was auctioned for €30,100, of course, they never paid for it.
The person deleted their eBay profile, and the story of the accident is there.
Between Jalisco and Zacatecas, I was looking for an indigenous community
called the Wirrarica, also known as Hicholes by Westerners. However
, on my way there, I happened to be stopped by an armed group. Eh, the one near
La Guajira was the second most frightening experience in my life. But
since everything has two sides, the next day the people of the town
lent me a hand, wanted to accompany me part of the way,
and then I finally reached Durango. In Durango , they took me to Parral de Hidalgo, where
a BMW Motorra pickup truck would pick me up in Chihuahua, thus saving my life. The fact is
that Mexico is also like Colombia, a country of absolute contrasts
. They have a very complex law and order situation , I assure you,
much more so than here. And it can happen to you, and it can’t. And if it does,
then pray if you believe. Grandpa Chiriboga asked me the other day when I was there
for a month and a half, a month and a half ago I went to see him and he said, “What happened to you,
what stayed with you as a horror lodged in your body, conceive it as a
blessing and make death an ally. What happened to you can serve to
remind you that we always have it here, well, or here, but that it goes with us,
it’s invisible, it’s cold-breathed, sometimes it seems like
it’s not there, but it’s always certain that we die and since we don’t know if
we’ll be reincarnated or not, well, my advice, having already lived through some experience of
this, is that if something apparently traumatic happens to you, boom,
turn it into a blessing. These are the words about the death of a grandmother
from here in Cundinamarca, but since we’re short on time I’ll put it in, okay?
In the video and there it goes. I don’t believe much in death. If life
is energy, it’s always permanent. It’s a vibrant energy and death is
transformation. So, no, for me no There’s no life or death, everything is a
transition. She said, which is the end of her video, that the price of life is
death, that we’re like in a temporary case that’s been lent to us and
then, boom, you have to pay, right? Traveling with fear isn’t advisable; it becomes
embedded in you and permeates everything. And the truth is, I admit that I traveled,
I was terrified for a large part of the trip, but not just for the sake of it, because I felt it and
saw it. So, well, if you do it, be very careful. I went to the United States
, and what did I realize about the United States? That people love to be
right; there, being right is a sport. And this is super curious because
you talk to one person and talk to another, they consider you, as a foreigner, a
neutral being, and they start telling you their mental affairs without you asking.
If one of them is a Republican, they try to convince you of their own opinion, and if the other is
a Democrat, they try to convince you of their own opinion, but very fervently. And I tried to
tell them what we were talking about before, that this is the truth, it’s that little figure over
there, but depending on where the ace of light comes from, that’s true, a circle
or a square. I mean, the truth depends on perspective, right? But sometimes
we lose perspective. Other ways of seeing life is one of the main
things this travel project has brought me, because there’s nothing more beautiful
than trying to think like others think and feel like others feel to
expand your own horizons. In the United States, I was lucky enough to walk
a bit of the famous Route 66. I’ll show you some quick photos. It’s
impressive. If you can do it once in your life, I highly recommend it. The
Forest Gamp slope is a perfect place for camping. Everything
I couldn’t camp in Central America and Mexico for fear of something happening to me,
I’ve done in the United States. That, and the fact that hotels are too expensive.
So it’s an incentive to say, “Well, maybe I’ll sleep outside tonight
.” And in Arizona, I was lucky enough to meet this man; he impressed me
deeply. People we did not create the earth, we did not create the
universe that was created by someone or something else. Some people call it God,
other people call it the great spirit. Some people call it Allah, Jehovah. So
everything here behind meal people. I was able to continue traveling back and forth,
and of course, I’ve been very lucky with the police in
Latin America because, well, in the end, they don’t want to give a foreigner a bad experience
, a bad memory , a bad experience, well, a bad memory. But
of course, in the United States it’s a different story; the law is the law, I mean, it’s like an
entity. The law is almost always upheld. If I were you, at some point
I would have asked myself how this asshole always manages to get away with it, right? And the
truth is, I don’t know. It must be a question of aura, of energy, of
lowering your ego, of bowing your head, asking for forgiveness, accepting blame, who
knows. He wasn’t going that fast either, but according to his speedometer, he was. The landscapes of
the United States, for me, are the best thing the country has to offer, without a doubt that, and the
variety of people, who are like an experimental field. For me,
the United States is a bizarre experiment , and it remains to be seen what will happen
with it. I mean, things are heated. Grand Canyon, approaching Area 51.
Aliens, yes. Aliens, no. The haunted motel, I hope
you’ve been watching the episodes, the pieces of sequels. I already arrived in
Canada and this is the day I entered and I entered scared because I found, uh,
a life-size representation of a brown bear. That’s what they look like when they stand up.
But really, what landscapes in British Columbia, what a cold state
I’ve been through. And I was already en route to Alaska and something transcendental happened to me that
I never imagined so close to my destination. Why?
Because sometimes something changes everything, but it’s just that sometimes a taco changes everything and
That ‘s how it was. The gringos are very gringo. Well,
they’re Canadian, but it’s more or less the same. I arrived that night at the house of this
woman and her husband, who was the mayor of the town, a town of 1,000
inhabitants, and I told them, “Well, I’m into adventure motorcycles, I do a lot of
dirt routes, just like that.” And they said, “Damn, well here’s one you should
do, but we don’t know if it’s a good time of year because it’s done in the summer.”
And I said, “Let’s see, tell me more, I want to know, does this route connect to a
destination and then continue towards Alaska or do I have to go there and back?” Because
if it’s a go and back, I’m not going to do it. If it connects, yes, I’ll do it. And that was the route
from Telcua to Terras through this here mountain pass called
Telcoapaz. Oh, Telco Cuapaz. My God, what a
moment. [ __ ] Kid, this is really rocky,
huh? Anyway,
I’ll get to the ground just fine on the left. [Music] Let’s go. Don’t look to the left,
don’t look, please. But I told you not to look,
Agustín. How could I not look? I think there’s still the part where
the path is flooded 50 meters away. Here it is. This is it. We’ve arrived.
Phew. I mean, the videos I’ve seen weren’t like that, right? I have
to get in there to see what it’s like, man. Even if I get my feet wet
again. [Music]
Treacherous, treacherous.
Nothing, I have to get in no matter what.
So, cheer up and get going. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, good God, what a terrible idea. No, no, no, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t, man. What
have I done? No, no, no. I have to get out of here. It’s too, too much. It
‘s reaching here. I’ve certainly messed up, but hey, I’ve gotten into a lot of trouble in life
, but this one in British Columbia in the fall at 4g is unbelievable. The bike wouldn’t start.
And what did I get? Camp on the road, hit the satellite button, and call the
town mayor. Hey, come get me. The road was more difficult than
you told me. Going back wasn’t an option. I mean, there was
a very high chance that if I took that hill, the rocks were very
large and very steep, and I fell down that ravine, it wasn’t like the
Sierra Nevada where there was vegetation. There I would fall, tumble off the cliff, and die. My
best option was to take the river, and since they told me it wasn’t that high,
but it had rained for the last three days, what a mess I made.
But you can always get into a little more trouble. The hero, this man, told me
, “Take this bear spray, he might need it.” Before
they arrived, it was two and a half hours until they arrived, it was raining. I
was shivering because it was 3 degrees and I was completely frozen.
And all of a sudden, man, I thought I heard a slipstream like something like that and I’m like,
“Holy shit, there’s a bear, man, on the other side of the tent. There’s a bear
coming for me.” So I took out the spray, I went like this, boom.
And there was nothing, but it turned a little bit against me and [ __ ] that [ __ ] is
super strong, man. I mean, never press it against the direction of the
wind because you literally stop breathing. I
mean, that knocks down a bear. Well, it knocks it down, it scares it away. Imagine a human.
But it can always get a little bit more complicated.
[Music] Spray the spray.
I had left the bear spray unlocked inside the suitcase.
They put something on top of it, it activated and it goes away inside the car, man.
And the woman was like this. That chemical is super strong. It’s pure
chemicals. It’s pure pepper. On top of that, you’re coming for me because you’ve been addicted
here. My friend ‘s joint was less serious
. Then, of course, they came in a jeep and the motorcycle says, “No, the motorcycle is
staying, sister. We can’t take the motorcycle and a
car with a trunk won’t fit here, I mean, with a trunk it won’t fit. Nobody’s going to
want to come because the car could get stuck here too.” And then
they told me, well, you’re going to have to hire a helicopter. [Music]
Are you seeing my bike? [Music] [Music] guys. But of course, the motorcycle had been
in the water, a lot of water had gotten in and I didn’t know exactly when,
where exactly, through which of the holes. So, what did I do? What
do you think I did? Call Brian.
Exactly. And Brian told me, among many things, that the first thing we should do is get
the water out of the exhaust, right? To start with. It’s coming, coming, coming.
It wouldn’t start anymore, it wouldn’t start at all . So, of course,
the only logical thing is that you have no compression
because a valve is bent. Yeah.
[ __ ] man, I have the valve curse , eh, man?
Of course, I mean, a lot of things could have happened and it started with one day of
repair and another and another and another and it was really expensive there, superco. The
mechanic’s hour in Canada and the United States is exorbitant for us. I mean,
well, plan B to get to Alaska is going to have to be this. I
wanted to get there by motorcycle, but I don’t know, maybe I’ll have to rent one of these uhuls and
put it inside, camp inside. and get here with her, get here, get there now, I’m not
going to back down, I’m very close [ __ ] I had six days left, so
say no, let’s not give up, and here between Mr. Brian and I and a couple of
other mechanics we came up with the resurrection plan and in the end, after
days of repairs, the last thing that occurred to us because the motorcycle
had never lain down was that the gasoline had water in it. We don’t know
how it got in, but it got in. It could be through the vent on top. What do you
say, Brian? Where did the water get in? The gasket on the cover, I mean, through
the engine itself. Oh, the top part, of course. In fact,
it was leaking oil. Maybe it got in where it was leaking, right? Maybe.
Well, the fact is that when we were about to throw in the towel and say
yes, rent the truck, it happened. A round of applause for this mechanic
who doesn’t mess with motorcycles of this type and did the impossible so that
I could continue the trip. The fact is that I was able to continue
and I was getting closer to my final destination. But of course, it was getting kind
of late in the calendar, right? And every time I got to a gas station, which by
the way, if you ever go there, people are kind of crazy because they spend half a year in
complete solitude, I ran into this character. Winters coming.
Ah, Winters here. A reference to Game of Throne.
Winter was already here and [ __ ] it was true, man. I had never
ridden in snow. Never, never, never. That day I was about to back
out and I made a pact with myself. I said, “If I fall more than three times,
I’ll turn around.” Because I saw trucks that weren’t traction, people
lying on the road, but I didn’t fall. Because over the years I learned and I got to Alaska, bro. I got to
Alaska. I got to Alaska. It was becoming very difficult for me to be able to
Combine the Motoaventura part with the tribal part in North America because
it’s not accessed in the same way. They’re much more suspicious. And can you believe it?
I got to the sign and two First Nations appeared and told me everything
that happened to them as a child when the Canadian government—and this is just
now becoming known—took them to the Residence Schools and they suffered
everything. Right there on the Alaska sign, as if it were a confirmation of the
fate of Look how your hair stands on end, man. Impressive. When
you see it, eh, I suppose you’ll cry. So, we return to the beginning and
also to the end, the famous butterfly effect . Something that happens in one part
of the planet in an inexplicable way can trigger
another somewhere else. And time passes. Charlie Burman and Edwan McGregor
grew old. Ted Simon is an old man, and I’m not spared. The years have passed for me too
, and I can see it when I go through the photos or give talks like
this. I say, “Wow, I’m talking to my past self. Here’s Memento
Mori,” the Romans said. Remember you’re going to die. Use death as a
blessing, as an ally. But hey, we’re missing someone, aren’t we? Who was the other
person who inspired me? Oh, yes, Christopher McCantless. How curious.
Where was this? Where in Alaska was it? Oh, I think it was in Nali National Park
, but this bus is no longer there. The
American army took it because people were dying as they arrived. Some
drowned, others were lost. A lot of public money invested in rescuing
those who did survive. So, they took it. And where did they take it?
They took it to a museum, a museum in Fairbanks, and I say, “Ugh, I’m going there.”
So I went to the Fairbanks museum, and I introduced myself there, “Hi, how are you? I’m
Agustín, and I’m talking to this girl who I thought was a native Alaskan, but she was
Chinese.” And she introduced me to the woman who was in charge of the bus restoration process
because, uh, it couldn’t be visited. I said, “No, but I’m coming, I’m coming
from Buaya.” I’ve already gone a bit far, but
I’ve been traveling for seven years to see the bus. You can’t tell me I
can’t see it. This was clearly an inspiration for me. You have to let me see it.
Then, like when you go with good intentions,
things fall into place. They allowed me to visit the bus where
Christopher McAndles died. There I was able to record the closing of the trip, the
end of the project, sitting on that bus, just like in the photo, which he
took some time before dying of starvation. But remember,
remember, Edwin, everything changes in a second. That day it didn’t stop snowing. I
‘d been announcing in the videos that I had a plan for my motorcycle. My motorcycle had to
stay in Colombia, and I’d been looking for transportation for months to
send it from Anchorage to Miami by land and from Miami to Bogotá.
But everything changes in a second. I returned to the place, it was snowy all over, and I told
Sofi, the Chinese girl who had put me up at her house with her partner and her mother, and I
said, “Sofi, it’s really snowy here, okay? I’m going to
try to get to Anchorage, but if I don’t make it to Anchorage, I’ll send you the
satellite button, the emergency call, you come get me, I’ll donate the motorcycle to you, and I
‘ll fly out.” And she said, “Hey, what a great idea.” Well, I
think Angi would accept it. So I was already packing,
I was about to leave, and I said, “Wow, I ‘m going to propose it to her.”
And what do you think? I proposed donating… to the Super Sup Super Supernova and they
accepted it. That’s the document that proves that the motorcycle I’ve ridden with
practically all of America remains in the permanent exhibition at the
Museo del Norte, right near the Into the Wild bus. [Applause]
Look, look, that’s the end of my companion from
Villaje. I encourage you to visit her at some point in your life, if you can,
because she’ll be there in the Fairbanks museum. These 7 years can be summed up as
110,000 km, 25 countries, as of today, 283 travel episodes, 97 tribes
interviewed, and a total of 6 million followers across different
social networks. And before we finish, a very important phrase that marked most
of us from Into the Wild. Why have I told this here? Because I’ve come to
Medellín to celebrate what I consider the final end, the true end,
because as Christopher McAndles said, happiness is only real if it’s
shared, and I wanted to share it with all of you today. Thank you very much. My love, my
missus. [Music]
The joke isn’t about living, it’s about knowing how to live. [Music]
Uh. [Music] Oh.
[Music]
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📚 ¡Gracias a todos los que vinisteis al evento y donasteis media tonelada de material escolar! El próximo domingo publicaré el vídeo de la aventura de llevar los útiles escolares a Arusí, Chocó. Os aseguro que estará a la altura. Un abrazo y feliz semana.
✋🏽 ¡SIGUE EL PROYECTO! 👉🏽 https://linktr.ee/soytribu
🚀 MATERIAL PARA VIAJAR EN MOTO 👉🏽 https://linktr.ee/materialmotoviajero
Nosotros somos nuevos en YouTube y en los viajes hace dos meses empezamos y esto nos motiva a soñar algún día viajar por América en ella ojalá se nos de lo de YouTube en algún momento ❤🙏 si nos quieren apoyar viéndonos allá los esperamos con mucho amor ❤
El chiste no es vivir, el chiste es saber vivir. Y tu has sabido vivir estos grande 7 años de tu vida.
"ME ENCANTO SOY TRIBU"
"GRACIAS POR MOSTRARNO LO GRANDIOSO QUE ES EL PLANETA CONFORMADO POR DE TODO UN POCO"
🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝
Agustín eres un ser de luz , no cambies nunca⚘
Hola Agustín no sabes cuánto sufrí contigo y tú moto cada vez que te estabas en el piso y todo el esfuerzo para levantarla un abrazo bendiciones desde Bogotá ❤❤❤❤
agustin lograstes tu odjetivo espiritual el universo te acompañara siempre …..hasta siempre ……
Agustín buena tarde quiero preguntarle sigue con videos o se retira de viajar bendiciones ❤❤❤ desde Colombia
Que de entre tantas cosas lindas que viste en Nicaragua, priorizaras hablar de una corrupta pues me decepciona un poco. Sin embargo eso no empaña para nada toda las aventuras que disfrute durante todo ese recorrido moto con un toque de poesía. Saludos Agustín.
Agustine! Lo hiciste! Eres lo maximo!!!!! Muchas, pero muchas gracias!!!! Cristibal Colón de nuestros tiempos. Y Dios lo hizo haun mejor! Nos dio un Cristóbal Colón poeta! Muchas gracias! Adelante caminante! Que el camino se hace al andar, roca a roca, peso a peso, beso a beso!!!!!………Gracias España por Por Cristóbal Colón y por Agustine, que la Historia se sigue creando!!!!!….Que alegria!!!! Gracias Agustine por hacernos la vida más significativa, de propósito y alegre!!!!
Primero que nada, te felicito Agus por llegar a completar tu proyecto Alaska, conseguiste lo que te propusiste con altos y bajos, estoy contento de ver este video y más felicidad me da que tuve la dicha de seguir tus viajes por esta plataforma, lamento que no hayas podido llevar una experiencia excelente de mi Pais Paraguay, pero me encantaría que te tomes una oportunidad o revancha y te prometo que no te vas a arrepentir de conocer tierra adentro mi querido pais. Ojalá nos lleguemos a conocer, acá tenes las puertas abierta de mi casa, mi ciudad Villa Hayes. Que te vaya bien siempre!
El final final, no será un final para muchos, repetiré todo esto cuando mi hija tenga uso de razón porque esto es inspirador por lo que haces y lo que aprendemos.
Amo tu proyecto.
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Agustin no soy motoquero pero vi cada uno de tus video, sos un ejemplo de vida y una gran persona, gracisas por abrir las mentes y el corazon de cada persona que te sigue, te envio un fuerte abrazo desde lo mas profundo de mi corazon
TE APLAUDO DE PIE DESDE MI PANTALLA, eres un gran ejemlpo Agunstin, mas allá de UN VIAJERO, MALLA DE LA MOTO, COMO HUMANO, TU ESPIRITU ES HERMOSO!
Un vídeo brutal, a pesar de que he visto todos los vídeos, este vídeo me ha impresionado.
Muchas felicidades por lograr tu objetivo.
Ojalá que las aventuras contigo y en este canal continuen y que este video no sea un adiós, sino que sea un hasta pronto.
Un abrazo y feliz día 😊👍🤜🤛💪💪💪🤗🤗✌️
Sabe mi deseó que por lo menos la mitad delos colombianos tu bíeramos la oportunidad de conocer Colombia como la conose Agustín gracias por querer tanto a nuestro país y el cariño es recíproco nosotros también te queremos un montón felicidades
Extrañare tus videos de viajes aunque no te e comentado mucho siempre los vi. Saludos desde Costa Rica 🤗🫂🫂🫂
Maravilloso capítulo. Grande Agustín, vuela alto. Colombia es amañable.
Gracias Agustin
Gracias Super Nova
Gracias Super super Nova
Gracias a todos los territorios que te recibieron.
Gracias soy tribu, por inspirarme a vivir
amigo muchas gracias por mostrarnos tu camino broh , eres una inspiración de verdad . ya aprendiste machismo jajaja que genial , ahora esperar las nuevas aventuras mucha suerte y éxitos amigo
Impresionante tus aventuras y gracias por compartir tus experiencias!!
Qué maravilla de cierre de la serie Soy Tribu!! Increíble, gran resumen! Se me fueron como agua estas más de 2 horas. Muchas gracias Agus por compartir tu viaje, por compartirte a ti mismo y a las muchas tribus que cruzaron tu camino. Gran lección de vida para los que te vemos a través de una pantalla.
Esperamos que haya más moto aventuras que podamos seguir.
Saludos desde México!
Como me vine a encontrar este video a la 1 am , si tengo que trabajar .
Me acuerdo mucho de simon