First of all english is not my first language, I will try my best to keep this website bilingue, so bare with me on this.

After a successful career as an art photographer and 20 years of motorcycle travel around the world, my life took a major detour. While prepping for another motorcycle trip to the Philippines in January 2019, I suffered a severe hemorrahagic stroke.. After a brain surgery and 20 days in coma, I survived but with a left hemiplegia. I lost the hability to use most of my body left side. Fortunatly during my motorcycle travels I was blessed with good friends. Jorge, from USA is one of them, he came to visit me in Lisbon and brought me two gifts that made my stay in the hospital much more bearable. The classic book Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum and The Atlas of Pilot charts from the North Atlantic Ocean. These two gifts were instrumental in healing my brain, not his physical injuries, but by nurturing my perspective, it rekindled my desire to explore the world once more.

Despite my physical limitations and fatigue from daily physiotherapy, I continued to envision traversing the globe once more.

After crossing all earth latitudes on my motorcycle. I want to cross all Longitudes now sailing my boat

I am aware that my left hand is not functioning properly, and I am not as physically strong as I was before the stroke, but if I make some adaptations on my boat I cand try it, or as the Maori people say, tāmata.

The main aim of this site is to show people in alike situations that healing is achievable. Adapting and overcoming our limitations can enable us to experience a complete life, even when confronted with one of those transformative moments.

I hope this can inspire others to recover an create new ways to live a happy rewarding life