We arrived in Somerville on Sunday and were pretty blitzed from the red-eye flight and general stress of traveling through airports at this particular moment in time. We discovered last week that our friends Leah and Ariela’s apartment was unoccupied and they agreed to let us stay there for the time being, especially as we …
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Well friends, it looks like our Brazil adventure is coming to a close and our stateside Coronadventure is just beginning. Yesterday morning, we were feeling optimistic about the situation in Brazil (650 cases) vs in the US (14,000 cases) and decided to try to stick it out a little longer here, so we changed our …
Duck and I were up early this morning and headed straight from our Airbnb to the airport. It’s a quick hour-long flight from São Paulo to Belo Horizonte (which I will refer to mostly as BH: B = bay, H = ah-GAH, so bay-ah-GAH together if you want to be like the locals). Duck, in …
Duck and I arrived on Monday and took a cab to the hotel (Uber is about half the cost but we couldn’t get it to work for us). At Duck’s encouragement, I introduced myself to other obvious Fulbrighters also checking in. We went out into the drizzly mid-afternoon for some food where it started downpouring …
Birds: I snapped a shot of this cheerful little (ie about the size of a starling) guy at breakfast this morning before he hopped away. There were also some birds soaring above the falls that Duck thinks were vultures – they were amazing to watch, huge wingspans and really just riding the thermals, not flapping …
Duck and I are really taking it easy. Yesterday consisted of lots of what our friend Jaclyn calls porch sittin’, in our case reading and enjoying beverages and more giant green olives than we could ever possibly want, sitting by the pool and going for the occasional dip, and indulging in a long massage. Thursday …
We made it! Our first flight, Boston to DC, was very unpleasant for me, but I rallied and the long one (9 hours, DC to São Paulo) was very good. We were even both able to sleep a little. (First class helps with that!) I told Duck that we might have a problem on our …
Horntoes in Brazil