After more hours of traveling than anyone should ever have to endure at one stretch, we finally arrived at our friend Cristiane’s house this morning, went out for lunch, shopping, marveled at the corner of the massive city that is Sao Paulo, stopped for a cold beer in the hot sun, stumbled back to Cris’s apartment and crashed into her bed while she went to work. After four hours of nap I’m ready to face the computer, if not the crazy streets of Sao Paulo again.

I did some longhand journaling on the plane, which I transcribe in the following entries for your reading pleasure. Blogging is fun! Thanks, everybody, for your addresses!