February 16, 2007
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Two Guys with Guitars in a Beat-up Buick…
Supposedly this is how one of the trios of carnival began. Guess who the third member was? The driver.
Anyway, if I forgot to mention it we crossed the equator a few days ago. Today I was out on the seventh deck, trying to get some color, and never in my life have I felt such sweltering heat. There was not a breeze in sight and it literally felt like the sun’s rays were burning my finger and toenails off. With that said, tomorrow we will be in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Hopefully there will at least be a breeze moving around.
My plans for Brazil include going to Cachoeira to talk with the landless workers, partaking in Carnival celebrations in Salvador (the second biggest part, next to only Rio), Bicycling in Pitaucu Park (for my sustainable communities class) and going to the North coast of Bahia in search of a supposed hippie village, the beach and some groovy handcrafted items.
We have logistical pre-port in a few minutes, where the staff will hopefully (for everyone else’s sake) inform us about the dangers of drinking alcohol after being in the sun all day and then partying in the streets and alleyways of a foreign country. Some of these kids are dumb. Mr. Bob is playing his guitar for us, gotta run!
FYI I will also be purchasing a phone card, hopefully sometime tomorrow, so keep your phone lines open!
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My Dearset Bug, Sounds like your over your sea sickness- I hope so ! Please call when you can I miss you and am so very proud of you! Dad leaves for Bradenton in 6 days ,then it will just be SDG and me for 4 weeks.We fly down on March 24th.I love reading your posts- helps me not pine for you so much. Have you E-mailed any/all pictures to Walmart? Hows your roomate working out? Do you need me to mail you anything?I will put alittle $$$ i you account on my payday, I put in an extra 100 when I got back from Nassau.I have art this moring time to go be creative! Love you soooooo! YO momma
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