This past weekend I went to a city called Terespolis, for the birthday party of Milton, a friend of mine. There were 12 of us, some mutual friends that I had known from before, and some that I had never met. The trip started out, as these trips usually do, with a big disorganized mess. Nobody knew who was going in which car, or where we were me...

Sunday morning we were up and at it very early once more. We were off to Teresópolis to check out their National Park; Serra dos Órgãos (cuz the peaks are long and narrow and give a pipe organ-like appearance). The bus ride from Petrópolis to Teresópolis was about 1.5 hours...also mostly up the mountainside. Teresópolis is the highest city in th...

Well after a very emotional departure from the Orphanage we left for more wilder terrains, beginning at "Sierra dos Orragos" where we all began some serious acclimatisation to both the weather, working as a real team within the more broader regions of Brazil. Having spent a week in the Orphanage had seemingly provided us with a sefety net now le...