A few years back I set off to travel the world. The journey enabled me to swim with Amazonian pink dolphins, summit the highest peak on the African continent, and sail below the Antarctica circle. The 1 1/2 year trip netted me a worldwide troop of friends and stories out the ying-yang. Currently I live in New York City and have decided to write about the energetic madness that occurs here on a daily basis.
The above movie was taken on Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro in March. I apologize to anyone that might not want to watch 2 minutes of shirtless Brazilian guys on the beach in advance. However, these guys can really play soccer. John and I were in a trance watching these guys (the soccer skills, [...]
In the next few days I will write about the significance of this photo.
Over the course of the last few months of writing this blog I have had quite a bit of internal and external dialog about the contents and subject matter that I am writing about. I know how many people are reading, [...]
Pictured: Rio de Janeiro, the “City of God”
Well, John is gone. We had almost a full month of traveling together and now he is off to work in a big law firm and to get married. All in all, I think he is really looking forward to it. He is going back to a good [...]
View from the top of the hill in Trancoso
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After Salvador, John and I took off for the beaches of Bahia. We jumped on a 35 minute flight from Salvador to Porto Seguro. From there, we ended up taking a ferry from Porto Seguro with a Peruvian girl named Aralyn (more on her later) to a [...]
Salvador de Bahia feels so much like New Orleans its scary. I have spent a few weeks in the Big Easy and John went to school at Tulane. We are in complete agreement that Salvador is the poor mans New Orleans. Salvador comes with a distinct Afro Brazilian flair, music in the cobblestone streets, and [...]
