A 29-year-old influential man living his dream of traveling from his home country Brazilto reach the US alaskaHas died after just two days from its destination.
Jesse Coase has traveled 52,000 miles and 17 countries in a 1978 Volkswagen Beetle with his pet golden retriever Shurste, since he began his journey in 1978.
But on Monday, Coz and his pet were killed in a head-on accident with a Ford Escape on US Highway 199 near Selma, OregonKoz and his dog were pronounced dead at the scene.
Ford Escape’s driver, 62-year-old Eileen Huss, was taken to hospital for treatment for her injuries. The two-year-old girl in his vehicle was not hurt.
Brazilian influencer Jesse Koz and his golden retriever Shurste were joined at the hip for six years before they were both killed in an accident this week
Brazilian influencer Jesse Koz and his pet golden retriever Shurste died Monday after collided with a vehicle in Oregon. Coz was just two days away from reaching his dream destination of Alaska, a journey that was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
Jesse Koz, a 29-year-old Brazilian influencer and his pet dog, visited 17 countries since 2017.
On Saturday, Coz shared a photo of his camp site in Oregon as he and his pet golden retriever get ready to get back on the road and head to Alaska
Jesse Coase returned to Queretaro, Mexico in January to pick up his 1978 Volkswagen Beetle and resume his trip to Alaska.
Koz has been on the road since 2017, but her trip to Alaska was slowed in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic, which prevented her from driving across the Mexico-United States border and forced her to return to Brazil .
He began his journey with The Clash’s smash hit song, Should I Stay or Should I Go, named ‘Shuraste or Shuaigo’, a playful combination of his dog’s name.
He resumed his much-anticipated journey in January, coming back to Mexico and reuniting with the Volkswagen Beetle, which he named the ‘Dodongo’.
‘We left Mexico in September 2020 with the idea of only staying in Brazil for four months, with the hope that the Mexico-US border would reopen,’ Coz explained. ‘But the months went by, and there was no news that this would happen, month after month[of]hope was waning and the dream of completing the drive with the Beetle (sliding).’
Coz crossed Texas from the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León on February 9 and later visited the NASA Space Center in Houston before leaving for Louisiana.
Coz decided to name his trip to Alaska ‘Shurste or Shuago’, a playful combination of his dog’s name, with The Clash’s hit song, Should I Stay or Should I Go
Brazilian Jesse Coase, known for traveling the world with his old Beetle, has died in a traffic accident in the state of Oregon. He and his pets are pictured above during a stop in Arizona in late April
With the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance in San Francisco, Jesse Coase expresses the ‘freedom’ he felt to travel the world. He wrote, ‘There is no happiness without freedom, and I have always paid too much to be free in this project. ‘I came out of a prison that was my old life where others made decisions for me so that I had the freedom to choose what I wanted!’
Jesse Coase’s 1978 Volkswagen Beetle was wrecked after a head-on collision with a Ford Escape
He stopped on the morning of February 10 and watched the sunset with his best friend of six years, Shuraste, recalling the moments they shared and the future that awaited them.
‘I told her how important she was to me, and I wouldn’t have been able to move forward without her company. He just smiled with his tongue hanging out and didn’t breathe on my face,’ he wrote. ‘I just wanted to enjoy the sunset in the company of my friend, I know we still have a lot to come and as far as it depends on me we will always be together until the sun Don’t set one last time.’
The road trip took him through the Mississippi to Florida, where he met his childhood idol, Brazilian Formula 1 driver Rubens Barrichello.
In April, Coz’s drive to the East Coast included stops in Washington, where he posed in front of the Capitol, and a drive through Times Square in New York City. He headed north to visit Niagara Falls, where he was ‘astonished by the blizzard’.
Jesse Coase and his golden retriever take a break from their trip through Florida in March
Coase, Shurste and Dodongo then headed west, passing through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Arizona, where they camped near the Grand Canyon before continuing on to California.
With the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance, Koz expressed the ‘freedom’ he felt to travel the world.
He wrote, ‘There is no happiness without freedom, and I have always paid too much to be free in this project. ‘I came out of a prison that was my old life where others made decisions for me so that I had the freedom to choose what I wanted!’
On Saturday, Coz shared a photo of her old but reliable Beetle parked in the middle of a camp site in Grant Pass, with her sleeping tent perched on top of the car as she and Shurste prepared to get back on the road. described the harsh conditions. And head to Alaska.
He wrote in Portuguese, ‘Hey my friends, it’s time to enter Canada and finally go to Alaska.
‘It has started cold in the camp from yesterday till today and from now on it will be cold and cold. But the good thing about the tent is that it tolerates negative temperatures well and keeps the interior very warm and also has a ventilation system which helps (keeps the hot air out).’
Brazilian influencer Jesse Koz and his dog pose for photo in Arizona as they return to the West Coast to continue their trip to Alaska
Cuz’s first stop after crossing the United States from Mexico was the NASA Space Center in Houston.