Well, it has been another week with a lot of adventures and many hours logged on buses. Is it bad that I am starting to kind of enjoy the bus rides because they give me time to finally relax??
When I last wrote, I was half way through my stay in Florianopolis. Well, the city continued to live up to all it`s hype. I learned to Samba dance (not very well) and in the morning my hips had never been so sore. I was able to surf a few times at Priha Mole and was stared at continuously because I was the only person in boardshorts (or maybe because I was the only gringo). Everyone else had complete fullsuits on and some even with booties. The water temp was about the same as it is was in May in L.A. On Thursday, I finally had to say goodbye to the lovely Tucano House and take the 16 hour bus ride to Foz de Iguazu.
Arrived Friday morning and immediately headed to the Brazilian side of the falls with some Irish folk I had been traveling with for about 8 days. This is the side with the overview of the falls. That night I stayed on the Brazilian side and in the morning headed over to Argentina and Puerto Iguazu. On this side, you can get very close to the falls as you can see by how drenched I am in some of the pictures. That is not sweat, just mist! It was breathtaking. My pictures are in chronological order, so you can get the jist of everything.
Saturday night I got on the 17 hour, which turned out to be 20 hours, bus ride to Buenos Aires. I swear, they seemingly pick any stranger up off the side of the road. It adds many hours to the journeys. I arrived Sunday morning and immediately got on another bus with my Mom to the Boca Juniors vs. Racing futbol match. This soccer match was just as exciting as the one in Rio. We had to cheer for Racing because that is where we were sitting, but it turned out to be a good thing as we won 3-0. I am still a Flamengo fan though...
It is nice to finally speak Spanish, but I am scared I trusted the fact that my high school Spanish would return quickly a little too much.
Had to change my plans a bit and am not able to venture any further south anymore. Thursday night, I will be taking a bus to Mendoza (the wine country) for some fun. Then headed up through MidWest Argentina to Bolivia to Peru to Ecuador! Bariloche is too much of an adventure for the little time I have remaining to hit up the other countries.
Got to see the Lakers win last night. Lakers fans seem to be acting like Raiders fans these days.
Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying summer. The weather down here has been incredible. It gets to 65 degrees and everyone wears snow gear! They think it is soooo cold.
Go Blue. Good Things.
TB
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