Wow, a month has gone by since my last post! I didn´t realize how fast time could move along when I move about like a 3-toed-sloth. Well the last month has been like a never-ending beach tour and I can say I am now officially tired of being at the beach...tough life I know, but seriously they are starting to look the same. I will have to head to the interior to break up the scenery I guess. On the map to the right it looks like a short little trip since my ...

I have some news from a friend of mine that many readers and desktop travelers may be interested in. This friend is going on a trip that even has me envious... even though she invited me to go along with her almost a year ago. I declined for several reasons. First, I thought she was nuts. Second, I didn´t think she could pull it off...lots of stuff about permits blah blah blah. Third, I knew I would still be somewhere in South America when she wanted to leav...

March 24th ... two years have passed since I left the USA. What can I say? Before I left home, I thought I would be in South East Asia by now checking out beaches in Thailand and temples in Cambodia. But here I am, only in Brazil with several more South American countries remaining to be explored. So what´s it like traveling for 2 years straight??? Certainly there must be things from home that I miss, right? Of course there are... I miss getting the cell ph...

Brazil´s self proclaimed capital of Reggae music is Sao Louis... a cool colonial town where all the buildings are covered in Portuguese tiles, supposedly to combat the heat. I arrived with my buddy Boris after a miserable, overpriced, 14 hour bus ride over the worst road I´ve ever been on. I didn´t know you could even take a bus on a road like this. And when the road was not a pothole infested mess of moon sized craters, you know what they put on t...

Well one thing is for certain... I cannot speak Portuguese. I speak more like Span-guese or a Portug-ish combination of Spanish and Portuguese. The languages are similar but different enough that I can´t use it... yet. So for now, my travel buddy Boris does all the speaking and information seeking as it´s his first language. This sucks though, going back to square one with a new language and communicating like a 2 year old. My next move was to make the...