Happenings from Fortaleza, Brazil
Been on the road about 3 weeks now. Actually, I just want to return back home to Colombia. Saw lots of interesting things in Peru. So many past civilizations there...pretty much unknown to most. Peru aint just Machu Picchu and the Nazca Lines (Which I still need to visit).
http://www.caralperu.gob.pe/principal.htm
This site is interesting. I have only learned about Caral at the museum in Lima. Plenty of info on the website in Spanish, English, and German. I have to stop in Lima, Peru for a couple of days on the way back to Colombia so maybe I will get a chance to visit Caral for myself. Close to 3000 BC too....
Funny...more pyramids...lots more in Chiclayo and Trujillo area too. I have some good photos from a site I visited earlier - Tucume. I was literally and figuratively, the ONLY tourist there when I visited. Big site.
Me and the Pope
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So the Pope is visiting Brazil too right now. Interesting to see the news coverage of his visit here in this mostly Roman Catholic country. Iīve spread my story to a few Brazilians. I mostly use word patterns now, and do not even mention a big nuclear war. Letīs see how it flies. One funny thing about the Pope, is that he tours big stadiums sitting in a bulletproof window truck. Now...if he really were ordained by īGodīwouldnīt he be under Godīs protection? He should not need bulletproof glass...past assassination (Attempts) or not. The hypocrisy of it all...
But hey...when you are a TRUE BeLIEver, you are a sucker for anything!
Brazil
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Religion aside, I rode a bus for four-five hours (Would the pope do that? A public bus, non air conditioned) through the far Western part of Brazil bordering Peru and saw first hand the conversion of Amazon rain forest to cattle land. (Brasileia to Rio Branco) It brought home another aspect of global warming and boosted my first hand knowledge of industry and its effects.
I also visited Brasilia and the state of Goias (sp?). Combined with my tour of the Northeast and some more parts of the South, I am more comfortable with "checking off" Brazil on my country list. I wonīt visit every Brazilian state before 2012, but just like the US, if I can visit 80 percent of them or so...that will be good enough.
The only other thing worth mentioning now is that my laptop has malfunctioned while on this trip. This will delay me in getting moving on the website again when I return to Colombia. I have to find a new one, and try to salvage the data on my existing hard drive. It is a backup laptop -- without alot of data, but if I cannot get the existing data, I will lose my Florida (No Coral Castle!) and Colombia photos and some updates to the site that I have not uploaded yet.
...I aint hoping, just waiting.
Good luck to those who donīt have enough!
http://www.caralperu.gob.pe/principal.htm
This site is interesting. I have only learned about Caral at the museum in Lima. Plenty of info on the website in Spanish, English, and German. I have to stop in Lima, Peru for a couple of days on the way back to Colombia so maybe I will get a chance to visit Caral for myself. Close to 3000 BC too....
Funny...more pyramids...lots more in Chiclayo and Trujillo area too. I have some good photos from a site I visited earlier - Tucume. I was literally and figuratively, the ONLY tourist there when I visited. Big site.
Me and the Pope
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So the Pope is visiting Brazil too right now. Interesting to see the news coverage of his visit here in this mostly Roman Catholic country. Iīve spread my story to a few Brazilians. I mostly use word patterns now, and do not even mention a big nuclear war. Letīs see how it flies. One funny thing about the Pope, is that he tours big stadiums sitting in a bulletproof window truck. Now...if he really were ordained by īGodīwouldnīt he be under Godīs protection? He should not need bulletproof glass...past assassination (Attempts) or not. The hypocrisy of it all...
But hey...when you are a TRUE BeLIEver, you are a sucker for anything!
Brazil
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Religion aside, I rode a bus for four-five hours (Would the pope do that? A public bus, non air conditioned) through the far Western part of Brazil bordering Peru and saw first hand the conversion of Amazon rain forest to cattle land. (Brasileia to Rio Branco) It brought home another aspect of global warming and boosted my first hand knowledge of industry and its effects.
I also visited Brasilia and the state of Goias (sp?). Combined with my tour of the Northeast and some more parts of the South, I am more comfortable with "checking off" Brazil on my country list. I wonīt visit every Brazilian state before 2012, but just like the US, if I can visit 80 percent of them or so...that will be good enough.
The only other thing worth mentioning now is that my laptop has malfunctioned while on this trip. This will delay me in getting moving on the website again when I return to Colombia. I have to find a new one, and try to salvage the data on my existing hard drive. It is a backup laptop -- without alot of data, but if I cannot get the existing data, I will lose my Florida (No Coral Castle!) and Colombia photos and some updates to the site that I have not uploaded yet.
...I aint hoping, just waiting.
Good luck to those who donīt have enough!
