agua termincas… paysandU
admin on Apr 7th 2005
Our trip down Brasil COULD have been non-complicated, except for the random 6 cop cars that stopped us in the middle of a dirt road down some stretch of highway running through the crops. My dad and Adolfo told me that this is how it was during the military days of the ’70s. You would just be driving somewhere, anywhere… obviously they don’t have paved streets or lights in many places, and then BAM, a group of cops would stop you. They would rob you stupid, beat the hell out of you, and you’d be lucky to make it out alive.
The guy thought my iPod was some sort of bomb device. Thank God we made it out of there alright. We crossed over to Uruguay and hit the hot springs (aguas termicas). The bungalows are pretty decent, and this place would be somewhere I woudl return, if it weren’t infested with June Bugs. Everywhere you freakin walk they are SLAMMING into your body. Every single lamp has them SWARMING around, and when we sit at a bar, we hear them slamming against the metal walls.
The nastiest part is that, because they are everywhere, they die and end up on the floor. CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH. That is all I hear when I walk. NASTY.
We found a pool that they had just empited and were refilling it with the natural stream of water, so we climbed into the pool and used it as a massage. The old men are funny HAHA, I hope to not have to be old and in pain like them!
We left to Paysandu in the morning to go wine tasting and check out the beer factory. Turns out that the beer factory closed months ago. The town seemed strange, like something from a movie. It looked like there SHOULD have been life, but once that beer factory left, so did any desire to live?
Wine tasting was funny. This isn’t Napa, not even Sonoma. People here don’t go ‘wine tasting.’ We had a personal tour by the owner of the vineyard and even got to taste wine STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BARREL with pippettes. YAY!
We are driving straight back home right now. I need to get back in time for my baptism and then the baptism of my God son…
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