We strolled down the “boardwalk” in front of the hotel we’re staying in last night. Cultural appreciation at it’s peak! Handmade lace, wood and bone carved jewelry, dresses, toys, hammocks, all made by hand. Lots and lots of people (peak tourist season). Everyone is eyeing the souvenirs they’ve planning on taking back before we leave next […]

Good news: we don’t have to take an old bus with no air conditioning to the desert. Bad news: we don’t have ANY bus to take to the desert! The bus shot craps, transmission dropped out. Now the race begins to find a substitute.

We went airborne from Miami around 7:30 last night and touched down in Fortaleza around 7:30 this morning. Because it is one hour ahead of eastern daylight time, that adds up to 11 hours in the air, on the ground, in the air, on the ground, in the air, and finally on the ground. Whew! […]

Wow! The day has come! We met this morning around 8:00 a.m. — even JP (from our last trip) showed up to see us off (I really think he was just jealous because he wanted to go), put together our caravan and off we went. Fast, little traffic, uneventful… just the way I like it […]

As a boy, watching the NASA rocket launches was a really big deal. There was talk of going to the moon! Wow! To a young child back in the ol’ days, that was mind-boggling. It was such a big deal that when Alan Shephard and John Glenn were blasted into space the teachers brought televisions […]