“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

January 30, 2012

Two Degrees South of the Equator

...where the sun will fry you to a crisp, even hidden beneath the deception of cloud covering.

Tomorrow we reach Manaus, and assuming this spectacular burn doesn't become sun poisoning in the middle of the night, I will be spending the next four days sailing along the amazon in a small riverboat, sleeping in hammocks, and gallivanting through the rainforest in pursuit of indigenous peoples, pink dolphins, and piranhas. I will not have my computer with me, so sadly there will be no more updates until Friday night.

Até logo!

(That's Brazilian Portuguese for hasta luego. You learn something new every day.)

No comments: