When we thought that the odyssey of Fabio Belnome and his Fiat Marea had ended on the shores of Japan, we were wrong. The world is a map that begs to be traveled. The protagonist, whom we already met on his trip from Barcelona to Tokyo, has started up the engine of his ’98 Fiat Marea once again.
But this time, the challenge is even greater: to drive for 5 months from the extreme cold of Alaska to the end of the world in Patagonia.
After finishing its route in Tokyo, the car was shipped and crossed the Pacific Ocean to Vancouver, Canada. From there, it traveled by train to Toronto, where Fabio has rejoined him to begin this new chapter.
The plan is a veritable 50,000-kilometer epic, a distance greater than circumnavigating the globe around the equator. Starting from Canada, his first mission is to climb to the northernmost point of Alaska to reach the Arctic Ocean.
From there, he will descend the mythical Pan-American Highway, a network of routes that connects almost the entire continent, with the notable exception of the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, a jungle obstacle that Belnome will “figure out how to cross” when the time comes.
The final destination: Ushuaia, in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego, at the gates of the Antarctic Ocean.
For the next five months, the 900 euro Fiat Marea will not only be his transport, but his home. Fabio plans to live in it, adapting to the most extreme climates. He will start in the north and then “chase the summer” until he reaches the southern hemisphere in its summer season.
As the car had to be completely emptied for shipment from Japan, it has had to be refitted in Canada with the essentials: from a chair and an anti-bear spray for the north, to an inflatable bed that turns the cabin into its bedroom.
If you want to know how this incredible story is progressing, you can follow @volatadipeluca on his social networks and join him, kilometer by kilometer, on this new journey.