ADVENTURE

I was born into a family of coal miners, poor, of French father and Indigenous Mother, I am the oldest of a lot of children, we grew up without a television, and when we finally had a television, I was not interested.

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Growing up, I went to the movies only twice, once when I was 6 years old with my Mother to watch a Walt Disney movie, and the other time it was the following year, at age 7, when I entered clandestinely --- I entered through the back door --- to see an old Japanese movie of monsters, Godzilla vs. Ultraman.

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Even if we did not have a television and even if I did not go to the movies, little by little I learned that there existed on this planet, great continents, immense jungles, gigantic deserts, and many different races and cultures, like the Eskimos of the North of Canada, the Nenets of northern Russia, the Bedouins of Arabia, the Yanomami of the jungles of Venezuela and Brazil, the Pygmies, the Berbers, and the Tuareg of Africa, the Sherpa of Nepal, and the Maori and Aborigines of the region of Australia.

I knew these things because my Mother always bought me books, which I read almost every night until 3 AM.

In school, when I was not in classes, I spent it in the library where I also had lunch, and on weekends I spent it in the library.

I also began to read --- until today I read it --- the old testament of the cristina bible since it contains a lot of very precious information about the evolution of Western civilization and about the true origin of the human race as we know it today.

That's how my adventure life began.

I wanted to discover the world.

From the age of 13 I regularly ran away from home, I rode on freight trains (one day I almost killed myself when I fell off the train), and I went anywhere, sometimes for days, hundreds of kilometers away. distance, but I also spent it in the Indigenous reserves where I fished my food and slept under the stars on the smooth stones of the rivers.

It was one of the greatest and most wonderful adventures of my life.

I began to dream of going to the jungles, but not as a tourist, no, but I wanted to spend some time living there, maybe in Africa, in an exotic, distant place, where there were no cities or modern things, where the tribes still they lived to the old, between the animals and the virgin heavens.

I wanted to discover more of the world ...

I wanted to be like Indiana Jones ...

Although at that time that character still did not exist.