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Sundry Notes and Updates
We’re out of Brazil and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We’re catching up on updates and blogs and stuff, but we beached pretty hard in Florianopolis. The highlight of the change in countries has been dealing with the Argentinian economy and inflation. Our first night here, the kids asked what the exchange rate was and we…
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Iguaçu Falls
About a week ago we went to Iguaçu falls in Foz Do Iguaçu in the pouring rain. It rained almost the entire time we were at the falls, until we were getting ready to leave. When we got there, we decided to go on a boat ride to the falls, which was very fun, but…
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Pantanal and Iguacu Falls
It was 2 weeks ago when we got to the Pantanal. On our drive in we stopped to see some capybara. When we arrived at our lodge we had lunch. We went on a boat ride with our guide. We sadly saw no jaguars, but we did see black hawks, a lot of vultures, monkeys,…
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Dam!
At the end of our visit to Foz do Iguacu we went to visit the Itaipu Dam on the Parana River between Brazil and Paraguay. The dam was built in the late ‘70s, filled in the early ‘80s, and since then has produced more power than any other plant in the world. I have been…
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Pantanal
We were recently on a tour of the Pantanal and I would like to remember it so I’m writing about it now. We were on the tour for only 3 nights, 4 days, but had an amazing time. Although it was over 100° there every day I think I preferred this to the Amazon. The…
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The Aviator’s Heart
During one of my many falls down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, I was reading about Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. He is a national hero in Brazil: if you’re within a kilometer of an airport you will find something named after him. Many Brazilians also make the claim that he should be considered the first…
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AMAZON GERO TOURS
Two days ago we arrived in the Amazon rainforest. To get there we went on a a bus to a port and fish market. Next we took a boat across the meeting of the waters. After that we got on a different bus and after all that we got on one more boat to the…
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Audrey’s Amazon Adventure
Amazon Gero Tours: Day One Today was the first day of our Amazon tour. At 8:15, Luis picked us up from our hotel in Manaus and took us to the tour office. At the office, they had a cute little doggie and I loved her. Then we got in a van and drove to the…
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A trip to the ER in Brazil
First off, everyone is perfectly fine. Please, nobody begin reading this in a panic. Today, Audrey and I took a trip to the ER in Río de Janeiro and I thought you might like to know how that went. Audrey’s right knee has been hurting for three or four weeks now. We can’t recall any…
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Welcome To The Jungle
We flew from São Paulo to Manaus last Friday afternoon and got to our hotel around one in the morning. Jessie had booked the tour (AmazonGeroTours) and the operator of the agency picked us up from the airport and gave us a few pointers on Manaus. We flew from São Paulo to Manaus on Friday…
