thanx to will who handled the motivation. points to janis who actually fucking jumped off a mountain right in front of me ( Read more... )

yesterday was the zoo. ridiculous touristing in the rain. we were jumping around puddles and hiding under umbrellas while looking around for animals who were also hiding from the rain. it was kinda awesome.  theres a favela jammed right up against the zoo. right behind a row of monkey houses, theres a shitty house of concrete and brick, with rebar ( Read more... )

just got back from sugarloaf ( pao de asucar, the mountain with the cable cars and all ). got a bunch of photos of rio with a storm of doom looming over it. we'll see how those turn out ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Rio-Janeiro-Flooding/ss/events/wl/040610rioflooding#photoViewer=/100406/ids_photos_wl/r1584527955.jpgRead more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100406/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_floodingRead more... )

so... its not quite biblical or anything, but the flooding in rio right now is enough to fuck up traffic pretty bad, and the worst of it is about 4 blocks from here. the rain is supposed to continue like this for a few days, so it looks like we're stuck here.

janis ( LJ starfallz  ) and will ( Read more... )

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-22.965131,-43.222957&num=1&t=h&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=23.875,57.630033&ie=UTF8&ll=-22.965103,-43.222916&spn=0.001724,0. ( Read more... )

1 day in brazil was all it took. i shaved my hair off ( Read more... )

i got off the plane, went straight to aglai's place, sat around on her hammock for a while, then ate some of antonia's cooking. thats pretty much my top 2 reasons for coming to brazil. i'm done. the rest is just bonus. =] so... there was a nice bonus thunderstorm over corcovado last night, and we had a nice view of it from the balcony of the place ( Read more... )

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