Fifteen
days after their wedding, Beatrice and Emmanuel Béjanin chose to
discover the Pan-American Road on their tandem bike during a year and a
half. From Anchorage in Alaska, to Ushuaia in Patagonia, they followed the
Pacific Ocean through the Rockies, the Sierra Madre and the Andes over 14
880 miles (24 000 km).
Beatrice and Emmanuel braved the boreal winter and the tropical heat, felt
the volcanoes breath, crossed seventeen passes over 4000m and fought against
the wild Patagonian winds. Their tandem listened to the Tlingits tales in
Alaska, slept in the ghost-like towns of California, participated to the
syncretic rituals of the Maya descendants in Guatemala, shared the chicha
drink with the campesinos of the Peruvian and Bolivian Altiplano and the
maté drink with the Argentinean cowboys ; the gauchos. This descent
on the Pan-American is also the opportunity for a nourished reflection on
the New World's history and the contemporary situation of the fourteen countries
visited.
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