Travel

• hear that raucous alarm clock;
• use one of these paper thin bath towels;
• sneak a coffee out of the buffet breakfast because there’s none elsewhere; or
• wait for hours at a crowded airport gate before sitting for hours in a full airplane, and then wait a whole fricken’ hour at the luggage carousel where everyone jams up front even though the bags coming out aren’t from their flight.

For a while, that is.

“Favela” is the Portugeuse word for a slum, a shanty town often made of cobbled together wood and cardboard shelters with dirt walkways and terrible poverty. Long-standing favelas will migrate toward brick and mortar but this simply “hardens” the situation.

On a map with water, land, terrain but no other markings, how many of these can you place? (Some of these city names are in Portugeuse. Can you figure them out without resorting to a web-based translator?)

New equipment today. Do we have enough of the right power plug adapters? Was anything damaged in shipping? Will it all work?

I am the inspiration for Arnie’s character in the Hollywood fictional movie, “True Lies”.

All Springfield-Armory firearms begin in Brazil. (Paraphrased from Wikipedia.)

Postings have slowed because 1) I’m tired in the evenings and 2) things that seemed different at first are starting to feel kind’a normal.

Hold it right there!