The Journey

Hello friends, well I have to bring up to date the official place of where we are in our Journey. When we started up with the blog, the blog was written on pretty often, then keeping up with it. When we left Costa Rica in April, time flew very quickly and as was moving very fast. We have now crossed Panama into Colombia, Venezuela and now we are in Brazil. I will keep posting the journal writings, memories, picture narrations that have become now part of the trip. It seems now that Costa Rica closed the face of southbound nomadic in the VW- to become the backpacking southbound nomads! A second part of the trip began with only backpacks as our turtle shell...the Turtle (the nickname of VW bugs in Argentina)was now "locked-up" in a safe customs parking lot for 90 dlls a month...now it has been 2 months since we crossed the Panama Canal, the Darien Gap (the Pan-American Highway "missing link"), into the South-America Continent, the equator line, the Amazons River! And of course, having to speak Portuguese is just surreal, especially when you think you can speak it, and understand it and in reality I am just speaking Spanish-or- Portu~nol, with the "Portuguese" accent Soraya and I use to play with as a joke *``* So i guess to pretend and play to have accents do help on the long Run!!!
We are now enjoying of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is considered the 3rd biggest city of Brazil! We are now lucky to be enjoying of San Joao Festival, there is a million of people out in the streets but we are lucky to have a hotel with good sound proof walls! We have been here for a week. The CONFELE conference took place last week and the presentations went well. We had an excellent turn out, and the crowd seemed to really enjoy the stencil work and the proposals for a new, creative, innovative, and ecological teaching practices!