i went straight from the party to the 6am bus, arriving within 15min of departure time. going straight form the pary to the bus, i didn't have any br…

Today basically started the same as most of my other days here: breakfast at the bakery, reading on the beach. I kicked it at lazy days again because…

Despite the luau last night i woke up pretty early today, like 9 or something. suffice it to say i was underslept and hung over, so i hurried on over…

Richard left early this morning and the pousada said i can stay for 20, so i'm gonna kick it here by myself for a few days. as usualy, i woke up pre…

i'm continuing to enjoy canoa, but richard isn't feeling it. we've both been traveling for awhile and seen alot of beaches, and the kid is looking fo…

canoa is the beach i've been looking for this entire trip. i speak well of it here apprehensively, because honestly i don't want to draw anymore tour…

pipa was exactly what i expected, which was not what i was looking for. post-carnaval, recife and olinda basically dump all of their tourists on pipa…

today aussie phil, richard and i went looking for the baia dos golphinhos (lit. dolphin bay), a beach famous for the dolphins that frequent it. it's …

spending the night in the hammock meant i got little sleep: i went to bed late, courtesy of the fiasco last night, and i woke up with the sun (and ch…

i ended up moving back to the HI hostel in olinda last night. there were still a few people hangin around so i didn't feel bad paying a few bucks to …

so post carnaval, there's basically nothing goin on in olinda. a few friends are still around so i've spent most of my time the last few days between…

i'm glad i got this apartment. i wasn't getting any rest at the CS house. i woke up around 7 something and after tossing around sick for a bit and …

lat night i had decided to move upstairs for health reasons, so i was very annoyed when i heard voices at around 4-5 in the morning whispering about …

I woke up in olinda feeling pretty crummy. guess the midnight man was a little too much for me. tiago swings by and convinces me to head out with him…

issues at the CS house. apparently karina (the main organizer, who has been MIA) organized breakfast lunch and dinner in olinda, which is silly; why …

carnaval started tonight, and i decided it would be prudent to move a few things into the CS house. I packed my daypack with a few changes of cl…

Here's a piece of very real travel advice, at least for moving around brazil on the cheap: DON'T MAKE RESERVATIONS. sounds wierd right? especially …

Today was a fun day. for starters, it sprinkled rain on and off all day, which was refreshing in the humid heat. after breakfast i headed over …

Exhausted from last nights festivities, i slept in and missed breakfast. I joined the nutty brits i was hanging out with last night for lunch at…

Since ig ot here the whole city was wild. i thought it was an extended pre-carnaval, but really it was the weekend-before-carnaval party. this mornin…

i woke up around 9ish on my own. everyone else in the hostel woke up at 10, courtesy of the trio eletrico (speaker towers on wheels with a band on to…

After roughly two days of traveling (minus a pit stop in salvador), i finally made it to olinda. the rodoviaria is incredibly far from recife, so it …

i arrived at the salvador rodoviaria early in the morning, dismayed to find that the only direct bus to recife was at 6pm, and all the indirect route…

Planning this trip, I had figured that if I made it as far south as porto seguro, I would focus on the nearby beaches I'd heared were gorgeous: Praia…

The crew as of itacare was myself, juan (new york born, doing med school in argentina), Richard (world traveling kiwi), marcelo and felipe (mineiros)…

the short version, for the time being: i tried to leave morro on the 11th to go to barra grande, but i took too long getting off the island and by t…

I decided to leave morro on the 10th. my trippy friend was leaving, i hadn't planned on staying so long, and i was just partying way too hard: drinki…

I met Eduardo and Elena, AKA the spaniards, on the trek through vale do pati. That was 11 days ago, and today was gonna be the last day we hung. We…

After using all of the first to recover (i could've gone to see daniella mercury perform at barra for free, but i mean, fuck daniella mercury), i wan…

<<sorry kids, decided it was prudent not to take the camera with me on this particular adventure, so no pics.>> I organized this trip ar…

by my third day in lencois, i had learned that there was plenty to do around town that you didn't need a guide for, so i'd arranged to hike one of th…

next day we started off with poco diabo, a nearby waterfall that feeds a deep pole. toshi came along for the fun, but melissa and her dad had other p…

i took the night bus to lencois and got a little sleep listening to my mp3 player. when i get to my stop, there's someone there waiting for me from t…

So excluding airfare to and from the north, i've set aside roughly R$7000 for the trip (according to my most recent calculations); somewhere between …

So due to some serrendipitous accidents, I found myself in Curitiba, a tiny but really interesting city in southern brazil. One of my mom's oldest fr…

I wanted to go back to argentina to do this nature trail but was told it wasn't worth crossing the border for. Today the germans were all going to th…

The argentinian side rocks the brazilian side. Hard. I got lucky this morning. talking with some kids at breakfast I learned that getting over to th…

The bus was a red eye. I spent most of the ride listening to music and talking to these two bermudans who were sitting behind me. They made bermuda s…

this weekend is special. Thursday is some sort of catholic (i.e. national) holiday, i don't work on fridays, and tuesday is a citywide holi…

Recife is hot as hell. I am practically on the equator, and this area of brazil doesn't get much wind (it's actually cooler further north, i.e. on th…

So i'm finally spending some of the money i've earned!i'm in recife right now, way up north. i'm in my hotel instead of enjoying the nightlife cause …

This past weekend was a national holiday so i hit the beach with my family. they own a house on a small private beach directly between two very popul…

tonight was the first night of Yom kipur. We had a nice pre-fast dinner at the house with my aunt, uncle, his three kids and two grand children. Afte…

So last thursday I called up Pablo (from the caconde trip) to see if he was down to get some beers. He said he was busy, but would hit me back on Fri…

thurs evening i headed out on a weekend trip through a Jewish community organization to Caconde, a small coffee-farming city in the interior of …

The family down here has this really cool tradition they do for kids birthdays; instead of hiring entertainment, they have the kids write a play. it …

 i made up my mind: i'm staying. sp really ain't such a bad city, even if it is filthy and has no beaches...it'll be like LA all over again minu…

So I really have to decide now, am I going to live in RJ or SP? I've been invited to 2 different peoples placees in rj, so housing is not a(n imediat…

So we didn't end up staying in buzios. Ben and i got trashed our one night there, and just hung out in this bar talking philosophy, which was fun. Th…

Buzios is not what it's cracked up to be. It's winter here, so it's the off-season. In other words, the beaches are pretty empty. And windy. Really r…

the nightlife in rio is insane. Tonight we went to Lapa, which i guess is what you'd call the bar district. But it's more than bars, the whole s…

On the 2nd, ben and i left for rio. 6hrs by bus. My cousin Ricardo is the PR director for the rio orchestra and we're staying in his apartment, which…

so last night ben and I had nothing better to do, so we decided to go back to Villa Madalena (bar district). After dinner, we wandered around looking…

today was a day full of surprises. It started out with a trip to the MASP, thinking it was the museum of modern art. turned out to be the museum of o…

<<I promise, at soem point I am goign to break up this entry into a few days at ubatuba, and jsut pretend like I wrote them over the space of t…

I'm living in this little apartment behind my cousin/uncles (he's my mom's cousin. I call him my uncle, he calls me his cousin. whatever) house,…

So I don't think of myself as the most spontaneous person, but I'm starting to realize that maybe i am much more spontaneous than I see myself. I've …