‘Something’s calling me:’ Canadian cowboy planning final ride home
CALGARY — Six years after it all began, Filipe Masetti Leite is still in the saddle and planning a new adventure.
Leite, 31, who immigrated to Canada from Brazil when he was a teenager, began his original journey in July 2012 and spent two years riding his two horses through 10 countries in North, Central and South America.
He eventually covered about 16,000 kilometres and reached his final destination at his home in Espirito Santo do Pinhal, Sao Paulo, in June 2014.
Leite, who has a journalism degree from Ryerson University in Toronto, fell into a deep depression after reaching Brazil.