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São Paulo and Manaus
It seems like we’ve been in Brazil for weeks, even though it’s only been a few days. As Marcus wrote in the previous post, our stay in São Paulo gave us a few days to get used to being in a country where nobody speaks the language or really knows the culture. We’ve had to…
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The Morning Found Me Miles Away
So the plan was that the car would be on a ship and we would be flying to Brazil once that happened. Ha! Pure hubris; the car is sitting on a dock in New Jersey. Well, so be it. We’re in Brazil anyway. The car will arrive when it arrives, and until then we’ll be…
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God Speed You! Blue Empress
Jessie and I just finished off getting the car to New Jersey for shipment to South America. The experience is still in progress (getting paperwork done, various logistics things, waiting), but the car is physically out of hands. God speed, Haruka Maru. I hope to see you again in Uruguay.
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Climbing Around the City Museum, St. Louis
Two days ago, we went to an amusement park in St. Louis called the City Museum. A bunch of artists found an abandoned shoe factory and with a bunch of junk metal (stuff like old airplanes and busses) welded an amusement park. When you first walk in, there’s a concrete whale with a bunch of…
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Colorado
I had never been to Colorado. I had been looking forward to going to Colorado. I love the mountains, I love hiking, and I love trains, and Colorado is rich in all three. After Mesa Verde (in Colorado, and possessing mountains and hiking), we headed over to Durango. We had rain on our second night…
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Utah (and a corner of Colorado)
Our first night out of Salt Lake City we went south to Kodachrome Basin State Park. This is a little bit outside Bryce Canyon and was a spur of the moment decision because we thought that the Bryce would be full on Labor Day. The park gets its name from the bands of multi-colored rocks…
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Unrelated thoughts and updates
We’re in Colorado, and big long posts about what we’ve been up to have been scarce. We have posts on Utah and it’s National Parks drafted, but we’ve been camping and out of data range, so getting posts and pictures up has been difficult. We’ve also gotten confirmation of our ship date to South America…
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Animals We’ve Seen
In South Dakota we saw some donkeys! We think they were descendants from donkeys that were released in the park. We saw a cute little baby one! When I snuggled him, his fur was so soft! We also saw prairie dogs. They had tiny, cute claws and a black tipped tail. I loved them so…
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EBR-1 and the Golden Spike
(Note: Audrey wrote this a week or so ago, when we were coming out of Idaho into Utah. For various reasons, I haven’t gotten around to posting it until now.) Yesterday we went to EBR1 (experimental breeder reactor) and The Golden Spike. EBR1 in Idaho was the first place in the world to use atomic…
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Camp Kitchen
One of the keys to good morale is plenty of good food. We like to cook at home, so we knew camp cooking would be important to us and planned for plenty of space (within reason) for cooking gear and pantry items. We have a large two burner propane stove that we frequently use for…
