Monday, July 03, 2006

We're ho-ome!

Our vaction in Buzios is over and we arrived home safely on Saturday night. The next few posts will be about our trip.


One of the most impressive parts of the trip was the trip itself. We took the car to save a lot of money on transportation. There are two main roads between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. We took the express route first and the scenic route on the way back. These pictures are from the EXPRESS route. Suffice it to say that Shannon is no longer all that concerned about seeing the Cabot Trail. There were so many "Kodak moments" that by the end of the trip we were almost numb to it all. Brazil is indeed a beautiful place.

Rio is really an amazing city. Most of it looks like Sao Paulo, but the part next to the ocean is spectacular. We look forward to going to Rio as a destination sometime as it does seem to be as beautiful as everyone raves that it is.

Although we saved a lot of money by driving, we sure didn't save a lot of time. The express route took us about eight hours to drive. The scenic road back home took us over thirteen. The road along the coast was so windy that Cary literally started to feel dizzy when he got out of the car at a rest stop. We will NEVER take that road again if we can avoid it, despite the beauty to be seen along the way. Also, we take back what we said about there not being lombadas (speed bumps) on the highways. We must have crossed 100 lombadas (at least) on the windy highway back to Sao Paulo.