Great experience. I was there studying architecture. Belo Horizonte was beautiful. Love the old part of town. Met some students and partied with some homemade cachaça. Went out to Ouro Preto for the day to see the Rococo Churches. Amazing. Spent a day in Pampulha.

Brasilia was, well, I don't think I'll be able to cohesively describe that one for a while. Weird, wonderful and disorientating. Stayed in Niemeyer's Brasilia Palace Hotel - recently renovated. I mean, just the images of that city being built - empty one year; full the next is just astounding.

And Rio was incredible. Ipanema, Copacabana, Pao de Acucar, the Cemiterio, Leblon, Jardim Botanico - I walked all of it. Ended up in a few sketchy places for sure. Took a wrong turn deep into a bario but ended up getting a tour of the whole place by a community organizer. Went to a few clubs in Lapa but had to leave cause the girls that I was with were clearly too much for the boys to handle. Holy shit they are an aggressive bunch! I was happy to not be a female there for sure.

And Sao Paulo was insane. Stayed a few blocks from Lina Bo Bardi's Museum of Modern Art on Avenida Paulista. Even went to her own home for a day. Caught a game at the Estádio do Maracanã (Flamengo lost).

I had some friends continue on to Itaipu afterword, but I had to come home. I would love to see the rest of South America someday. Are you from there? And should you be Tchau not Caio?