Funny how your brain works after being up for over 24 hours. In my case, it doesn’t. After a very long day, and almost 5000 miles later, we arrived in Raleigh at midnight. That was good. Then we faced a 2 hour drive to Wilmington. That was bad. Felt like a 8 hour drive. Continually […]

Sometimes you just can’t win . . . Poor ol’ rooster. He’s the King of the coup; he struts his stuff; the hens are his harem. But, in the backyard of a small house in Ubaúna, one particular rooster was having an especially hard week. First, there was the issue of the fox. Now, foxes […]

We’re baaacck! Made the drive from Ubaúna in record time. Only hit 1 pothole, no donkeys, no goats and no people! Car looks like it has been through the Baja1000 cross-country road race — totally covered with sand and dust. I want to try to define “hot” for you in an upcoming post, but, just […]

Since we’ve begun coming to Fortaleza regularly in 1998 we’ve always stayed at the same hotel. Every day at 6:00 a.m. the tapioca lady shows up in front of the hotel to sell tapioca. She stays for almost 3 hours. It takes her an hour and a half to bicycle from her home to her […]

Stupid rooster . . . Here I sit in the middle of Ubaúna,Brazil, in the middle of the desert, 5000 miles from home and 6 hours from civilization. Peace and quiet, right? Wrong! The stupid rooster can’t tell time! Three o’clock in the morning, three o’clock! The crazy bird starts crowing and crows every half hour until […]