For Mom, Love Steve

View image

Me shot
It was time to do some touristy stuff beyond the beach, so I chose the famous Christ the Redeemer statue that overlooks the city. I forget the Brazilian name, but it was something like the Corcovado.

The route started with another public bus (I am becoming a pro at those things.) The bus dropped me off at the base of the 710M peak. There, touts loomed around grabbing tourists and giving them the run through on tours. Supposedly there is a train that you could go on that chugs its way up to the top. As soon as I got off the bus, there was some guy buzzing away at me in Portuguese. I countered with Spanish and we ended up just spouting off random stuff and pointing at pictures. Finally, he just pointed at a group of people and said to go with them. Now, usually I don’t like to just jump in a tour group because they usually are paying exhorbinant prices, but since the girl in the group was amazing looking, I caved.
[read on]

My usual wak around to get acquainted took on new proportions when I did the famous beach walk of Ipanema, Copacabana, and all the way to the Rio Sul Mall. Now, not only are these beaches famous, but they are long, white sand beaches that took a couple of hours to make it down. Just a FYI, Ipanema is the higher end, place to be seen beach. Copacabana is still a locals favorite and a draw because of the name.
[read on]

I got up early enough to grab breakfast, do some last minute web surfing, and say goodbye to all the people that were there in the morning. I was off to the bus ... [Continue reading this entry]

In the morning, I headed back to the banks to finish off my withdrawals and then down to the agency to drop off my big stash of cash. Fuck, over a grand in ... [Continue reading this entry]

The first half of the day was just a continuation of yesterday as I sat on my ass in the publicesque type bus from Foz de Iguazu. We arrived around 3pm at a huge terminal ... [Continue reading this entry]

With most of my hanging out people gone, it was definitely time to get moving. My choices were to take a bus from the Argentina side, but it just seemed like I would be screwing myself over for not ... [Continue reading this entry]

This was the split up day for most of the people that I had been hanging out with at the hostel. Mateus and Pablo were going to Brazil, Natalia was going to go ... [Continue reading this entry]

After an on again off again sleep night where I kept one eye open and one finger on the can, it was time to go. Well, it was early for go time, but I was ready and wanting to ... [Continue reading this entry]

I got up in plenty of time to make it to the bus terminal for my 11am bus. I was heading for the border town of Chuy where I would then debate on ... [Continue reading this entry]