Archive | November, 2007

30 November 2007 ~ 2 Comments

Park, Church, & Food

I met up late morning with Valeria after having a great night’s sleep. Before meeting Thiciane, we had some time to bum around and eat lunch. After our extravagant feast the day before, we split 10 of what were basically mini pizzas. During our lunch, we had a really nice conversation. I had noticed a [...]

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29 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Valeria’s B-Day

Valeria was happy to see a familiar face anyway after living in a foreign country for 9 months. But her birthday made her miss home even more. Although I wasn’t family or a native Argentine, I was still glad to be able to share the day with her and a couple friends.
We met around 8:30 [...]

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28 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

On to Curitiba

The journey to Curitiba was uneventful, and that’s always a good thing when traveling. The Brazilian countryside was beautiful and exploding with summer green on the hillsides and in the trees, with a seemingly infinite sky mixed with bright blue and beautifully shaped clouds. We meandered along rather slowly and made 5-6 stops at various [...]

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27 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Foz do Iguacu, Bird Park

Leaving the hostel around 10 a.m., I had planned to go into Puerto Iguazu to do laundry and then go to Foz do Iguacu in Brazil to buy a bus ticket to Curitiba. However, the taxi driver was a good salesman and convinced me to let him take me to a hostel in Foz where [...]

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26 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Iguazu Map

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