Ricardo Rocco R.I.P.

Like 21 years ago we met first time this amazing big equatorian guy, we met as fellows bikers and travellers, and very fast from there we become in friends and family, he used to call Sandra his adopted “Mamá Argentina”.

We have traveled together in that moment visiting some Buenos Aires province places like “La posta del Viajero en Moto” in Azul, or the “Juan Manuel Fangio Museum” in Balcarce, among other places.

From there we both were chatting a lot and imagining and planning a net of places for hosting moto-travellers in our cities, for a while he was doing it at his Quito Motohouse, as we did at the old DakarMotos in BA during many years.

As well, we rode from BA to Mendoza and followed the Dakar 2009 for some days together.

He with others old travellers has introduced me to the international community of motorcycle travelers, and especially here to the HU.

We have met few other times, and always kept in touch through all these years, we last met beginning of last year when he was passing Buenos Aires as the last leg of his last big around South America moto-tour.

From the return of that trip, all went down… A bad encounter between a moto and big truck near his home left him fighting for his life for too long. Anyway he did it all and always in a very good spirit, despite expectations. We last exchanged some messages days ago when we had the news that also a tumor had said hi, and he needed surgery and a Pneumonia was joining the party, anyway he never lost his good humor…

Well, he passed away yesterday, and now for sure is riding other roads, where we will meet again (hope in a long time).

Till then, a really big “Moto-abrazo” mi amigo!!!

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