Distance | Europe, Asia, Latin America Travels

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time."

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:34:36 -0400

- T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”

Family Photos

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:31:51 -0400

Charming men know how to taste lives: English in other languages

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:51:28 -0500

I’m not gay but I don’t care if you are

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:31:00 -0500

All in the confines of the King’s Palace

"Go on, who knows what awaits you there, it's all opportunities in this place. Only of course some opportunities are too big to be taken advantage of, as it were; there are things that fail for no reason other than themselves. Oh yes, it's amazing."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:36:17 -0500

̶̶ Castle secretary, The Castle. Franz Kafka

Sunday in Salvador

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:29:46 -0500

Sunday in Salvador

Jesus walks

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:27:22 -0500

The most important religious and popular party on the calendar takes place on the second Thursday in January. Dressed in traditional white garb and strings of beads, Bahianas (of the uniquely Brazilian, slave-descendant religion Candomble) lead an 8-kilometer (5-mile) procession of similarly white-attired and perfumed devotees and partyers from Comércio to the (Catholic) Igreja do Bonfim for the washing (lavagem) of the church steps.

- via Moon Guides

Peru you take my breath away

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:19:00 -0500

Day 2

Day 4

@ Machu Picchu

Oh! Yes!

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:49:54 -0500

South America's two biggest hits at the moment

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:50:00 -0500

Not gonna lie, I’m digging the Michel Telo jam.

Something about Peru feels special already

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:41:12 -0500

Something about Peru feels special already

Southeast Asia: Loves and Hates

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:26:36 -0500

Loves

Free tea with almost every meal
Children yelling hello and giving high-fives in the street
Sandals and shorts are appropriate everywhere
The conspicuous absence of police
The variety of fruit
$3 hostel beds in every city
$1 meals
“Same same but different”
Unashamed plagiarism of everything: movies, music, books, brands, storefronts, designer clothes, jewelry, etc. A Vietnamese friend put it perfectly when another girl copied my jack-o-lantern design: “Vietnam very good at copy.”
There’s always a motorbike around when you need one
People will sleep anywhere, at any time
Cows are community lawnmowers
No coins! (except Thailand)
Monks doing normal people stuff - using cell phones, riding bikes, surfing the Internet. Always funny.
No tipping!

Hates

Being hungry after every meal
Blatant dishonesty of the tourism industry - “yes yes, no problem my friend.”
Lonely Planet refusing to admit that some cities just plain suck. Beware of code words “charming” and “acquired taste,” which translate to “stay away.”
There’s always a motorbike around when you don’t need one
Hot girls are sometimes not girls. Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “hot or not.”
Low regard for nature and preservation
Foreigners paying higher prices than locals
Service is terrible (see “no tipping”)

The only thing worse than trying to poo in a toilet with no seat, is then turning around to realize there's no toilet paper.

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:15:00 -0500

Guess where I am?

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:33:35 -0500

If your first guess was Brazil, you spelled Brasil wrong.

Florianopolis to Rio

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:16:00 -0500

Florianopolis to Rio

Actual things Brazilians think

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:50:00 -0500

That God is Brazilian.

Fábio: Because we don’t have wars. Nobody attacks us and we attack nobody.

Me: And the extreme poverty, hunger and violence?

Fábio: Yeahhhh, but the whole world has that.

Me: Hmmm moving on…

(I know you’re reading this Fábio… no offense, I just find that hilarious! Besides, we all know God is an American.)

That a Brazilian invented flying.
That if a beer isn’t ice cold, it’s “hot.” I’m pretty sure there isn’t even a Portuguese word for ‘warm.’
That I look like a celebrity. So far I’ve heard I look like an actor from one of their TV shows (no pic provided unfortunately), Toby Maguire, and James Blunt.

Ordem e Progresso

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:07:00 -0500

Ordem e Progresso

Legend of the Falls

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:32:46 -0500

Beginner's luck

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:32:00 -0500

Night 1 in Europe: ran from the authorities

Night 1 in Asia: went on a date with a rice farmer girl

Night 1 in South America: the continent’s biggest soccer team won the championship

Don't feed the giant shadow puppets!

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:21:00 -0500