So it seems that cities like to show me their “fun” sides the minute I arrive. Today, I flew into Salvador da Bahia. When we landed, the woman behind me says in broken English, “I home, Bahia… I love you… I finally free!” She is cooing and cheering softly as she is saying this as […]

For the last too nights, we dined at two different churrascarias and it was great. You get to a large open dining room with a large salad bar in the middle and you’re greeted/assaulted by men in gaucho outfits (I liken them to Hammer pants). After you visit the salad bar, you sit down and […]

It’s really impossible to understand what it means to be in a city of 11 million people that takes up 1,523 square kilometres (588 sq. miles). I’ve uploaded some photos taken from the roof of the hotel I’m staying in near the city center. They are taken from one side of the building and then […]

After a long, uneventful, on-schedule flight, I arrived in Sao Paulo. The weather is actually a little on the chilly side (22C/70F) and it’s overcast. The forecast doesn’t call for much of a change in the next week, but I expect Salvador to be much warmer.
Nothing can really prepare you for not understanding a word […]

I’m heading for Brazil today. I’ll be there for 3 weeks. I haven’t taken any vacation at work this year, so I was able to lump it all up into one trip. My boss and team members have been very gracious as I leave them to fend for themselves for a while. Out of those […]