Arrival post updated with video :)
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Posts from December 2008
Jayme Watt Longo
My grandfather went today after a fruitful life of impressive discipline, determination, focus, honesty, and vision. A leader, a gentle boss, stern but not harsh, quiet but attentive, a traveler and e...
Day 80 - Fazenda Mato Dentro to Sao Paulo!!!!
Woke up with Pedro and Armando who had arrived on their bikes from Sao Paulo :) Had some breakfast and went over to Sao Paulo with about 12 motorcycles!! Very cool and different riding with so many bi...
Day 78 - Fazenda Barbacena to Londrina
Great day - visit to Usina Vale do Ivai in the morning - sugar and alcohol production plant - always learn something new when I go there. It’s one of the most self sufficient industries I know of: -...
Day 79 - Londrina to Fazenda Mato Dentro
Quick post - no internet here - morning spent getting Gui a new tire then driving the entire afternoon (300 miles) to get to Campinas and then to the farm where Dudu (another cousin) was waiting for u...
Day 77 - Foz de Iguacu to Fazenda Barbacena
Short but exciting post! At my family’s farm in Parana, 450km northeast of Foz de Iguacu, +/- 1000km west of Sao Paulo next to a small town called Sao Pedro do Ivai. This is where I spent most of my...
Day 76 - Foz de Iguacu
All day tourist day :) Tour bus picked us up at 9:10am and took us to Iguacu Falls - very cool walk along the pathways and very impressive the size, noise and amount of water of the falls. Amazingly f...
TED Talks
Some of the TED Talks I liked in no particular order… Heard 79 of them these past two days riding… still in 2006 :) An atheist’s call to arms - Richard Dawkins (2002) Design is in the detail...
Day 74 - Presidente Roque Saenz Pena to Posadas
Hum… straight roads… very green… very humid and hot… lots of Brazilian trucks on the road. Presidente Roque Saenz Pena is a cute little town with a few restaurants and quite a few people cruis...
Day 75 - Posadas to Foz de Iguacu
BRASIL!! We have arrived!! Easy day of riding, some more turns than yesterday thankfully and a little bit more mountainous terrain but not that much :) We arrived in Puerto Iguacu and stopped for lunc...