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ENTRIES FROM THIS CATEGORY
- Oi, Corumba!
- COPS in The Pantanal - The Sims - Eight Hours to Nowhere - Caimans and Big Cats - The Last American Cowboy - Standing Room Only - Eat Your Heart Out - An Episode of E.R. - When Quatis Attack! - Great Adventure - Dumb and Dumber Day - Race to Rio - Welcome to Rio - Fantasies From The Thirteenth Floor - And The Crowd Goes Wild - Miscommunications - New Neighbors - The Girl From Ipanema - Before We Have Company - Incoming! - Meanwhile, Back at the Airport - Fly Like An Eagle / The Chaperone - Enter The Sambadrome - Fun With Foam - And The Winner Is... - The Nerd of Copacabana - Reaching the Threshold in Rio - Bye, Bye Brazil |
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February 01, 2004
Oi, Corumba!DAY 104: The sun rose and woke me up around six in the morning, only after a mere three-hour slumber. What the sun revealed was worth the rude awakening though; we were well into the Bolivian side of The Pantanal,...Read this entry February 02, 2004
COPS in The PantanalDAY 105: I woke up that Sunday morning early and got in dressed in my Sunday best -- I was off to the Federal Police station for my entry visa stamp, obligatory mugshot and fingerprints for being American, since I...Read this entry February 03, 2004
The SimsDAY 106: "The C Phase," a phrase I coined (or at least I think I did) is that inevitable period of time when a non-Spanish speaker first enters Latin America and, confused with the language, just says "sí" ("yes") to...Read this entry February 07, 2004
Eight Hours to NowhereDAY 107: There was a Brazilian morning show on television called Mais Você hosted by a sassy middle-aged woman and -- although targeted for adults -- a talking parrot puppet. I figured the Brazilians needed to spice up their mornings...Read this entry Caimans and Big CatsDAY 108: The one thing about wilderness safaris is that, unlike a visit to the zoo, animals aren't presented in convenient, sectioned off areas. The one guarantee about safaris is that there is no guarantee you'll see anything good. I...Read this entry The Last American CowboyDAY 109: Frodo, who fleed like a girl when the caiman got temporarily loose the day before, had the same sort of reaction when he had to dehook the piranha he caught from the bridge where we were fishing for...Read this entry February 09, 2004
Standing Room OnlyDAY 110: I don't know if it was from the horseback riding or the fact that I slept in a hammock that had sunk low from everyone's drunken swinging, but I woke up with every muscle in my body sore....Read this entry Eat Your Heart OutDAY 111: On my first day in Campo Grande, I was totally confused with the Portuguese language and just said "sim" ("yes") to everything. Being in the Pantanal for three days with mostly English-speaking tourists, I didn't get to practice...Read this entry An Episode of E.R.DAY 112: Behind the scenes, the producers of "The Trinidad Show" (me) had been emailing certain former cast members in hopes they would return for another appearance. Like the returns of Diane on Cheers and Lilith on Frasier, Lara --...Read this entry February 11, 2004
When Quatis Attack!DAY 113: Iguaçu/Iguazu [Brazilian/Spanish spelling] Falls, one of the world's greatest natural wonders and a UNESCO site as of 1986, is a massive collection of 275 waterfalls at the borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, where gravity pulls down millions...Read this entry February 14, 2004
Great AdventureDAY 114: When Lara and I signed up for a tour of the Argentine side of Iguazu Falls with the Hostelling International office, we spent the extra 10 real on a tour called "Gran Aventura" that included both a truck...Read this entry Dumb and Dumber DayDAY 115: I don't know if was the daze and confusion of a slight hangover from partying the night before, but all day Lara and I just acted silly and stupid like Harry and Lloyd in 1994's Dumb and Dumber....Read this entry Race to RioDAY 116: In CBS's Emmy award-winning reality show The Amazing Race -- coincidentally, a show I tried to get on with wheat -- teams of two must get over their differences and work as a team to beat other teams...Read this entry February 16, 2004
Welcome to RioDAY 117: I woke up in my seat the middle of the night on my overnight bus from Foz do Iguaçu to Rio de Janiero. My eyes opened and saw that Lara wasn't in her seat next to me. I...Read this entry February 18, 2004
Fantasies From The Thirteenth FloorDAY 118: For my first full day in Rio de Janiero, the goal was to figure out the plan of attack for the rest of the stay through Carnivale. Lara and I had two mission objectives: 1) to find a...Read this entry February 19, 2004
And The Crowd Goes WildDAY 119: In the U.S.A., "football" refers to the classic American sport where teams of padded warriors duke it out under their coaches' plays, so they can ultimately work their way to the Big Game where Janet Jackson gets her...Read this entry February 20, 2004
MiscommunicationsDAY 120: The only task Lara and I had for the day was to try on our Beija-Flor costumes for when we marched in the Rio Carnivale and we were back at our tour agent in Copacabana in time for...Read this entry New NeighborsDAY 121: It's one thing to travel and live out of a bag, hostel to hostel to hostel. It's another to actually travel somewhere and live there for a while. That morning, Lara and I checked out of our Botofogo...Read this entry The Girl From IpanemaDAY 122: Seeing the state of the dining room table the morning after a first night celebration of our new apartment, there was no explanation needed for the fact that Lara was pretty much sick and hungover all day. I...Read this entry Before We Have CompanyDAY 123: Since both my roommate Lara and I had company coming from overseas to Rio de Janiero for Carnivale, we were saving visits to the major tourist attractions for when they arrived. Avoiding the famous Pâo de Açúcar rock...Read this entry February 26, 2004
Incoming!DAY 124: The Friday before Carnaval weekend in Rio de Janiero, city of the world's most famous party, was the day the city really geared up for the influx of tourists. Men in costume and on stilts waited that morning...Read this entry Meanwhile, Back at the AirportDAY 125: Before the 10:30 meeting time with some of my friends from the New York area, I had a couple of errands to run. Despite the round and rounds of beers, cuba libres and caipirinhas with our big group...Read this entry Fly Like An Eagle / The ChaperoneDAY 126 (Part 1): Lara was buttering another fresh baguette in the morning, before spreading on a layer of her favorite spread Marmite, which she excitedly received the day before when her friends Ester and Pago brought it over from...Read this entry February 27, 2004
Enter The SambadromeDAY 127: Carnaval, like New Orleans' Mardi Gras and the U.K.'s Pancake Day, is the celebration just before Ash Wednesday and the Christian season of Lent. During Lent you are supposed to give up your vices and pleasantries and suffer...Read this entry February 29, 2004
Fun With FoamDAY 128: "Fat Tuesday" -- known by the French as "mardi gras" -- is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday and the Christian season of Lent where you are to chill out with all your comforts in preparation of Easter. Therefore,...Read this entry And The Winner Is...DAY 129: With Carnaval officially over, it was time to stop being a non-stop party monster and just be a tourist again. For Terence's, Paul's and Mark's last day in Rio de Janiero, that's just what we did....Read this entry The Nerd of CopacabanaDAY 130: By the time I woke up in the morning in my Copacabana apartment, Terence, Mark and Paul had already arrived at JFK International in New York City. With my company gone, it was time to keep a promise...Read this entry March 01, 2004
Reaching the Threshold in RioDAY 131: It was only about ten in the morning when the doorbell rang. Lara and I were still half asleep. I opened the door and on the other side was Luis, the designated English-speaker at Angramar Turismo, the guys...Read this entry Bye, Bye BrazilDAY 132: Lara was up all set for her last opportunity for our daily morning cheese, Gilmore Girls and Touched By An Angel. It being Saturday, The Warner Channel on our satellite TV was running cartoons instead, and so the...Read this entry |