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Countdown: T minus 10 days |
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I've just recieved my ticket in the mail, and will be heading down to the Brasilian embassy tomorrow to get my visa (hopefully, fingers crossed, etc.) I'll be heading to Kinko's today to get about a million passport size photographs taken, so if anyone has any hints about how to |
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28 July: Rio Food Edition |
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Travelouge :: Rio de Janiero :: The Food Edition
In Rio for a week now, as of tomorrow morning, that is. I?m still adjusting to non-touch typing on an international keyboard, so please be gentle with me about any typos that may pop up here and there. I am learning |
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5 August: Rio Tourist Edition |
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Travelogue :: Rio :: The Quintessential Tourist Edition
Just two days after the 40th anniversary of the writing of ?Girl from Ipanema?, I sit down to write something far more humble, and destined for much less fame as well: My Rio travelogue for my second week in Rio. And off we |
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18 August 2002::Brasilia :: HUGG, HIV and Reggae Hostel Edition |
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18 August 2002
Travelogue :: Brasilia :: HUGG, HIV and Reggae Hostel Edition
It`s been some time since I wrote to all you faithful followers of my jaunt around the globe and in that period I have come inland significantly to the Architectural masterpiece (and traveler?s nightmare) known as Bras?lia. For all |
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Rio & Brasilia go to the Bar |
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Rio and Brasilia at the bar
Have you ever been to a college bar? The kind of really loud raucous monument to alcohol and hormones that TV producers love to try to recreate. Not actually that much fun for most of the folks there, but forced hilarity goes a |
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31 August :: Bras?lia :: The Dorothy Edition |
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31 August 2002
Travelogue :: Bras?lia :: The Dorothy Edition
It has been pointed out, not unkindly, to me that in these modest epistles I have fallen into the trap of making Brasil sound a lot like the US, just with Portuguese and better produce. It?s not. Not by a long |
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12 September :: S?o Paulo :: The feverish dancing queen |
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Travelogue :: S?o Paulo :: The feverish dancing queen edition
L?Shanah Tovah to all of you and my respectful condolences to anyone mourning September 11th and the victims of that day. I?m in S?o Paulo, and at a new address, so I?ll get the new address bidness out of the way |
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27 September :: S?o Paulo :: Seizures and Snap Peas |
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Travelogue :: S?o Paulo :: It?s an edition, allright?
It?s been quite cold here in S?o Paulo, despite the fact that this week marked the beginning of spring. Nights have been averaging 9-10 degrees C, pleasing Paulistas no end, as it gives them a chance to wear the furs and other |
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27 October 2002 :: Rio de Janiero :: A brasilian alphabet edition |
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27 October 2002
Travelogue :: Rio de Janiero :: A brasilian alphabet edition
http://www.trekshare.com/
A Brasilian Alphabet
Disclaimer: This alphabet in no way represents the opinions of real Brasilians, the alphabet of Brasilian Portuguese, or even what I think when I have had more sleep. Read it at your own peril, as it has |
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