Rio de Janeiro / Brazil · 2014 The roofs of the favelas glistened in the evening sun
To me Brazil was...
... arriving on a 48h bus · the notion that Portuguese looks like Spanish but doesn't sound like it · an ethnic blend unique within South America · walking through merciless tropical downpour for hours · a witch and a patrol boat · stunning panoramas and drab close ups in Rio · three-story bunks · favelas glistening in the evening sun · fleeing from the soccer world cup.
What's it gonna be to you?
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a glimpse
The city's antagonist was pristine.
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Ilha Grande / Brazil · 2014
What an artsy cool kid metropolis; I don't know what fascinated me more - the idea to turn a stair set into a giant work of art or the art itself.
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Rio de Janeiro / Brazil · 2014
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Ilha Grande / Distracting Convenience
outrunning comfort to create memorable moments
Alas, convenience wanted me back in its enclosing walls for the same reasons it always does – for all the wrong reasons, distracting us from the bigger picture...
Rio de Janeiro / No Hard Feelings
distinguishing between place and experience
...our feelings and notions of a place are only as good or bad as our experience there. My harshest criticism towards many travelers and especially the ones armed with blogs – that they don’t distinguish between a place and their experience there...
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