Masetti Leite: Brazil

Calgary Dept: CALGARY - A Canadian cowboy hoped to join the ranks of the long riders as he rode out of Calgary on Sunday for an epic journey to his birthplace in Brazil, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Leite is expected to eventually cover about 16,000 kilometres and reach his final destination in 2014 and filipe Masetti Leite speaks to a reporter before riding out of the Stampede grounds in Calgary on Sunday, July 8, 2012. Leite is embarking on a two year, 16,000-kilometre journey from Calgary to Sao Paolo, Brazil. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Graveland Filipe Masetti Leite, 25, who immigrated to Canada when he was a teenager, intends to spend the next two years riding his two horses, "Bruiser" and "Frenchie," through 12 countries in North, Central and South America. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.