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Montevideo, Uruguay
on May 9, 2009 in Travelogue Add new tag backpacking photos South America Uruguay Sorry for the recent lack of updates– I spent the better part of last week lying sick on a cot in Buenos Aires. I think I caught a virus (or, as it’s called in the colorful local language, “un virus”), but I recovered just in...
Leaving São Paulo
on May 3, 2009 in Travelogue backpacking Brazil Sao Paulo South America The first stage of my trip came to a fitting end this morning, when I left Brazil mysteriously on a flight I can’t recall. My memory dims to black at about 2am last night, in an abandoned hotel (now a psuedo-legal dance club) with ghostly deco...
The right angles of São Paulo
on Apr 29, 2009 in Travelogue backpacking Brazil photos Sao Paulo South America If you were to lock an unimaginative eight year old in a room for several months with an infinite supply of Legos and nothing to eat but bread and Adderall, the São Paulo cityscape is pretty much what you’d end up with. São Paulo is a city of...
Woman Who ‘Loves Brazil’ Has Only Seen Four Square Miles Of It
on Apr 27, 2009 in Uncategorized Yep. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28470...
Idle days in São Paulo
on Apr 27, 2009 in Travelogue Brazil Sao Paulo South America I think it’s safe to say that the past three days of my life have been a bigger waste than the 7500 or so that preceded them. Aside from sleeping, eating, and doing a bit of desultory wandering through the metro system, I haven’t really s...
Some photos from the Amazon
on Apr 25, 2009 in Travelogue Amazon Brazil photos South America I meant to work these into my last post, but as you can imagine internet connections are infuriatingly slow in the middle of Amazonas. In any case:...