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I was born in Reus
(Tarragona). From early years I got fond of motorbikes. When I was 7
years old my father died. I studied in several schools and although
never was a good student I was able to get a decent education. In 1987
I moved to the U.S.A. with a title of Lawyer in Enterprise Sciences
and Masters in Administration of companies by ESADE and a full
knapsack of dreams. After five years of experience in New York, in a
good day I realized that there arrived the moment for giving a change
to my life. Disconnecting the telephone at my house I dedicated myself
to reflections. It had to plan my future and for this reason I decided
to elaborate a list of dreams: to fly by air, to sail the oceans, to
submerge to the depths of the seas, to cross deserts, to scale
mountains, to explore the world, to know its countries, their people
and their cultures... Working on this list of dreams I realized that
the common denominator of all of them was to know our planet and the
diverse forms to move around it. Thus the idea came to me to make an
expedition around the world with three objectives: go through the
maximum number of countries, use all the forms of transport possible
and to surpass by the way a series of challenges put by me to test
myself and to explore my own limits. One week later I decided to leave
my work in the Commercial Office of the Embassy of Spain, to sell
everything and to make a reality that dream that already counted on a
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On the 11th of August 1992 I set off for my dream journey around the
world. During three years and two months that I was travelling, my
office was the world and my equipment of work: a camcorder, two
cameras to photograph and a laptop. With this little equipment, I
initiated an adventure that put my life on risk in several occasions.
To cross the Straits of Gibraltar by swimming, the Atlantic - in
solitaire on board of a small sailboat of nine meters; to cross Europe
on bicycle and Africa - on motorbike: these are only some examples of
the multiple challenges that I put myself on while travelling through
120 countries in more than 130 different forms of transportation.
In October of 1995 I returned to Spain with more than 12,000
photographs and 170 hours of filming in video. While I was organizing
all this material for my motivational conferences, articles about the
trip and radio programs, a prestigious international consultant
Coopers & Lybrand entrusted me the organization of a program of
Motivation Outdoor.
Conscious that the beneficial thing of my project had so far been to
achieve my personal goal - to carry out my dreams and
adventures, challenging my own self, - I impassioned the idea of being
able to share and to transmit my experiences to the world of business.
And I decided to dedicate the remainder of my life to divulge the
benefits that a determined mentality, as well as some outdoor
challenges can have for people and organizations. And now I am doing
all this through the business Dreams & Adventures, one of the
pioneering businesses and leader in the organization of outdoor events
and activities for businesses.
After 10 years of arduous work in this business the moment to launch
me has arrived again, taking me back to a dream, a dream that keeps
returning to me since many years ago. Now the time has come to make it
true :
to ROW across the Atlantic, alone and unsupported.
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