Travelin Monkey

Wow, after all these years flying down to South America, I finally get to experience BRASIL BRASIL BRASIL!!

I found Matt at the airport in Soa Paolo just fine. The ride was OK, I slept through all of it. I paid US$480 roundtrip on hotwire for this ticket! We immediately left in a taxi to the bus station, thinking that there was a bus that left at 10 am, like the internet said. When we got there, we found out that there was a bus leaving at 12:15 pm and that it took about 7 hours to get to where we wanted to go. We spent some time looking for places to stay, but everything was EXPENSIVE!! So, after killing some time, we finally got on the bus!

I slept about 4 hours and spent the next 2 hours enjoying the amazing scenery and SUN! The weather is awesome, nice and warm, but it gets a tad chilly at night. Not too bad for it being the dead of winter in South America! Matt became friends with a guy named Enrique on the bus, who told us it was in our best interest to stop in a city called Parati, 90km south of Angra, where we wanted to go.

He turned out to be Argentinean, that moved out there 1.5 years ago after the government collapsed in Argentina (yeah, I was there for that too! Left the same day the country went down the toilet too!) I had some very good conversations with him and his wife, in Spanish, of course! They brought us to a Pousada that they stayed at after they left Argentina, and got us a great rate. The lady that owns the place is called Lourita and the place is called Bananeiras.

They invited us to dinner at their resteraunt tomorrow night. There is a district here that is 300 years old and the only thing they are allowed to do is paint the buildings, so everything gets preserved. We went exploring and found an all-you-can eat pizza place for R$3 per person, beer for R$0.60 a can. We sat down and met a French guy, Cristof, who had been travelling the world for 8 months and has 4 left to go around South America.

We lef to find a bar, but nothing was lively in the town, so we decided to crash at around 9 pm, dead tired. It is 3:30 am and in about 7 hours we leave on a cruise ride that we paid US$5 each for. Did I mention that all the women are amazingly HOT?!?

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