South America

View from upstairs deck



The tiny statue on the top of the hill is Christ the Redeemer

Bom Dia from Rio!

That means good morning and is pretty much all I know of Portuguese (and only because my travel book is sitting underneath my computer right now).

After two days of traveling I have arrived safely at the Albergue Tupiniquim Hostel in the Batofogo area. I spent an uneventful three-hour sleep night in Vancouver then took an early morning flight to Dallas, where I sat around for six hour until my ten-ish hour flight to Rio. I slept most of the time on both flights, so even though I was in a weird multi-time-zone-airplane-mode, I actually feel pretty awake.

Just wanted to send this quick post to say I arrived and was picked up at the airport safely and am now going to wander this area in search of flip-flops and food. I think I am four hours ahead here... not too many people around as they are probably all out and the hostel isn't full for carnival but hopefully I'll meet some people later!