Made Me Laugh

I'm a bit behind on my blog entries.  Our vacation threw me off schedule a bit.  I have a lot to tell about our trips, but just haven't had the time to sit down for a 2 hour block to collect my thoughts.  I also need to figure out how to include pictures in my posts, as the stories of our trip will be much better appreciated if you can have a "visual" to really understand my descriptions.  In the meantime, I thought I'd post an email that Matt sent me last night.  He is traveling in the north of Brazil, in a city near the equator.  This is his first trip away from us since we arrived here, and I went to bed laughing last night, after reading his account of his arrival in Sao Luis.  Enjoy!

"So I get to Sao Luis, all is well so far.  Get the car after struggling through the rental process.  Now, I get the car.  Standard…no big deal.  No power steering, this stinks but is manageable…no AC near the equator…wow it’s hot!  Then the attendant hands me my radio…I can’t leave it connected to the car.

So, off I head to the hotel.  Google Maps absolutely stinks.  The directions I had showed a 2.5 KM drive, 10 min. max…however, Sao Luis apparently has two Sao Luis avenues.  The one I was looking for was about 15 KM from the airport, not 2.5.  So after driving around for 20 minutes looking for the right Sao Luis Ave, I pull a Silvana and go to a “ponte de taxi” to ask some dude to drive me to the hotel.  My directions were horrible, what’s funny is that the location of the hotel on google maps is absolutely wrong! 

However if the Alcoa thing doesn’t work out I have a great future as a taxi driver in Sao Luis…stop signs? What stop signs?  No left turn, not for me…Red light…are you kidding!

Any way, I made it here about an hour ago. All is well. The hotel is very nice, and very air conditioned.

            I forgot to add, before I did one of my U-turns, I saw a donkey eating out of the trash."

Ah, living in Brazil - always an adventure!  Stay tuned, there's more to come!!!