welcome to an adventure

Current Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

as of 6/20/2009

A Little Background

what is this all about? where are we going? who is going? and most importantly, why are we going?

Status Updates

Looking for my first couch surfing experience in Salvador, Bahia, Brasil. No luck yet, but hope are high still. • 1 day ago

Spent the afternoon in one of Rio's most historical neighborhoods, Santa Teresa. Old mansions high upon a hill overlooking the entire city. • 2 days ago

Flight to Salvador booked! Price of direct bus: R$200, price of direct plane: R$100. Hours saved: 26. • 3 days ago

It is official, one week to go. Cannot wait to get back on the road. Now to plan the first leg... • 4 days ago

glad i went outside yesterday, weather sucks this afternoon • 1 day ago

soooooo fuuuuuull. love the churrasco for dinner on top of the octopus for lunch. • 2 days ago

hmm. disappointing. • 3 days ago

Amazing photos, all real: http://tr.im/qnua • 3 days ago

Blogs

2 weeks and counting

The day go by. It's hard to believe 3 months ago I was moving into this house I will now be leaving in 2 weeks time. Seems like just yesterday, but Carnaval seems like forever ago. I guess that's what happens when you spend the majority of your days working and...

My Carnaval, Not Everyones

The closest thing I can think of to relate what Carnaval (in Portuguese, everywhere else, Carnival) here in Rio de Janeiro was for me like is to go back to my small town semi-roots: "street dance". If you are unfamiliar with the term, "block party" might be more...

road construction ahead

Being on the road is quite simply, amazing. It provokes a different way of thinking for a new kind of life. Good and bad, not all is always well, but life is always swell. At 6 months into this journey, I have experienced so much in so little time. From people,...

service without a smile

If you have ever traveled outside the United States, you always miss this one thing we Americans pride ourselves upon: Service. Until a few weeks ago when we arrived in Brasil, this thing called service has been more or less non-existent. Even with a fake smile,...

hammocking

Sleeping in a hammock for 3 straights days isn't all its cracked up to be. Sleeping next to a cute Brazilian girl who dresses like she's hitting up the non-existent club every day on the boat however, is. The 200 other people crowded in next to you within a space...

Leaving Central America

For me Central America has come with its ups and downs lefts and rights and just about any other direction that one can think of. A part of me is happy that I am leaving C.A. and another part of me is already missing it. I feel like after four plus months I...

Bocas on the Wagon

I sit here as sober thoughts enter my head. I write and many find themselves on paper. The rest do not. Where do they go? Why can I not record them all? These other thoughts, these other memories. Gone. If I wasn't on the wagon, I would understand. Booze stole...

The Slums of Panama City

You show up in Panama City and from the word go the modern nature of the city is in your face. You look at the skyline and see the high-rises with apartments starting at a quarter of a million dollars. Anywhere you look it seems you can find an upscale shopping...