Meet Yarets

8 years and counting of touring for the 67year old deaf and mute Vladimir A. Yarets.

He is from Minsk, the capital of the Republic of Belarus, formerly USSR.

Why the "long ride"?
Believes his personality will be by right commemorated in the Guinness Book of world records. Vladimir is the first deaf person to have found determination and courage and set into a round-the-world trip on a motorbike.

He left his home and rode his motorcycle alone to over 40 countries and covered the total distance exceeding 100,000 miles since 27th of May 2000. And now he is on his way to China to enjoy the events of China Olympic Games.

The outstanding round-the-world trip started after traveling through the whole of Europe, he headed to Morocco and the Canaries. The journey resumed from an exotic point of the world map - Venezuela, whereupon Vladimir visited St Lucia Island and Puerto Rico. A ferry took him and his bike to the Dominican Republic, opening new directions for his trip - Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. After that Belarusian adventurer set course to Florida, USA. Covering a country as vast as the States, certainly, took quite a while, however, Vladimir managed to visit every state except for Alaska and Hawaii.

A small American town Peoria turned out to be a tragic point of Vladimir Yarets's trip where he was forced to stay there for much longer than initially expected - almost a year. On the 13th October 2003, with foul weather raging and strong wind blowing furiously, Vladimir's bike crashed into a lorry. The traveler was picked up by local people and taken to the nearest hospital with numerous fractures. After hospital Vladimir continued his way to recovery in the house of one of his saviors, who kindly offered help. At the moment Vladimir has fully recovered and is determined to visit Australia and the whole of Asia in order to leave nothing separating him from the world record..


START MAY 27 2000 - results - MAY 18 2005
1. BELARUS * MINSK * 300 KM.
2. POLAND * 800 KM * 5 DAYS
3. GERMANY * 1400 KM * 16 DAYS
4. NETHERLANDS * 400 KM * 2 DAYS
5. BELGIUM * 400 KM * 2 DAYS
6. LUXEMBOURG * 100 KM * 2 DAYS
7. FRANCE * 4100 KM * 50 DAYS
8. UNITED KINGDOM * 3000 KM * 47 DAYS (ENGLAND—WALES—SCOTLAND)
9. IRELAND * 650 KM * 8 DAYS
10. NORTHERN IRELAND * 180 KM * 3 DAYS
11. ORKNEY ISLANDS (U.K.) * 10 KM * 1 DAY
12. SHETLAND ISLANDS (U.K.) * 60 KM * 10 DAYS
13. FAROE ISLANDS (DENMARK) * 25 KM * 3 DAYS
14. ICELAND * 1650 KM * 12 DAYS
15. ANDORRA * 80 KM * 21 DAYS
16. SPAIN * 1600 KM * 28 DAYS
17. PORTUGAL * 900 KM * 14 DAYS
18. GIBRALTAR (UK) * 80 KM * 4 DAYS
19. MOROCCO * 1400 KM * 23 DAYS
20. WESTERN SAHARA * 120 KM * 5 DAYS
21. CANARY ISLANDS (SPAIN) * 300 KM * 60 DAYS (SANTA CRUZ de TENERIFE)
22. VENEZUELA * 2500 KM * 181 DAYS (ISLA de MARGARITA)
23. ARUBA * 40 KM * 5 DAYS (CURACAO—BONAIRE, LESSER ANTILLES)
24. PUERTO RICO (USA) * 500 KM * 44 DAYS
25. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC * 650 KM * 30 DAYS
26. HAITI * 170 KM * 10 DAYS
27. JAMAICA * 800 KM * 40 DAYS
28. CUBA * 1600 KM * 132 DAYS
29. USA * 50 STATES * 54.000 KM * 651 DAYS * HURRAY!
30. HAWAII * HONOLULU (USA) * 30 KM * 23 DAYS
31. ALASKA (USA) * 3000 KM * 20 DAYS
32. CANADA * 11 + 6 PROVINCES * 32.000 KM * 270 DAYS (VANCOUVER ISLAND * NEWFOUNDLAND * NOVA SCOTIA * PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND)
33. MEXICO * 8640 KM * 46 DAYS * (BAJA CALIFORNIA) * 1800 KM * 6 DAYS
34. BELIZE * 1000 KM * 8 DAYS
35. GUATEMALA * 936 KM * 6 DAYS
36. USA* 50 STATES* HURRAY!!!+39 STATES+65.600 KM+802 DAYS*JUNE 30,2005


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