We flew a small turboprop–just ten rows on the airplane–from Santa Cruz to the higher elevations of Sucre, Bolivia. As we were standing around in the tiny airport waiting for our bags, Erika complained that she could feel the altitude already. I doubted this–we’d just gotten there–but before we left the airport, I could too. Most of Bolivia ranges from ‘high altitude’ to ‘obscenely high altitude.’ At about 9200 feet, Sucre lies more on the ‘high altitude’ end of the…
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love” — Ernest Hemingway “Is everything okay in there?” Everything was not okay in there. He stared downward in frustration and rising anger, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Insanity, indeed. “I’ll be out in a second,” he yelled back to her. The water would slowly drain, but that’s all that would go away. The toilet was well plugged, and no amount of plunging or…
In São Paulo, our health luck finally started to run out. Pretty much as soon as we got to our apartment, I got hit with a nasty head cold that pretty much went from zero to a hundred real quick. Normally, head colds for me start with a tickle in my throat that I recognize immediately, and then I spend 2 days nursing myself with the hope of heading it off ahead of time. This one just walked up, kicked…
After an amazing time in Florianopolis, we were sad to move on. Especially since the day we left was the best weather we’d seen our entire time there. But getting to Rio de Janeiro was an easy flight, and the view from the air was amazing! Rio looked crazy down below – a huge city built around the coast, lakes, and hills that were everywhere. Since Uber is so widely used here, getting to our AirBnb was a breeze. We…
We were getting close to leaving for Florianopolis, and Erika was getting excited to be back at a beach for the first time in a while. Looking at pictures as we were planning our time there, I was excited too, because it looked gorgeous! And the weather forecast showed nothing but rain for all 6 days we’d be there. It’s fine, we said, it’s still days away, surely it’s bound it change. When we woke up to leave Foz do…
