Re-posting this: ‘Skin yuh teet,’ you’re back in the Cari
Thursday update: You may be experiencing a glitch with this post — I know I am — so I’m publishing it again in case that irons out the...
A Day on the River, Part 2: The Rubber Plantation
January 1, 2020, upriver from Manaus, Brazil — The Seringal Felicidade rubber museum is on the bank of the Taruma Mirim Creek. I don’t...
A Day on the River, Part 1: The Village
January 1, 2020, upriver from Manaus, Brazil — On my first world cruise, 2 years ago, I decided that I needed to find more excursions...
1,000 Miles up the Amazon: Manaus
December 31, 2019, Manaus, Brazil — Our final out-bound destination for this cruise. The Portuguese built a fort here in 1669 as...
Boas Festas e que todos seus sonhos se realizem no Ano Novo!
January 1, 2020, Manaus, Brazil — Happy Holidays and may all your dreams come true in the New Year ! New Year’s Eve in the Viking Sea...
Boi-Bumbá!
December 30, 2019, Parintins, Brazil — Parintins — say ‘pahr-een-chintz’ — is named for the original tribe of indigenous people who...
Oi! You Caught a Piranha!
en route to Lake Maica... note the hammock on the porch December 29, 2019, Santarém, Brazil — ‘Oi!’ is not pronounced like ‘oi veh.’...
