Reflections on Living in Brazil - Part One

A couple of weeks ago I received a comment from a reader, “flyingturtle,” who confessed that she and her husband were interested in:

1. Visiting Brazil
2. Considering maybe even moving to Brazil somewhere down the line.

She asked if I could write a post about “Quality of Life/Living in Brazil.” In my response, I promised her that I would since I think the topic is a particularly rich one – dauntingly rich, in fact, for the scope of a single blog post (for this reason, I’m dividing this into a two-parter; Part I of which will focus on “Living in Brazil”:

Living in Brazil

There is no one way to “live in Brazil.” Like any life in any place, so much depends on circumstances; the place you choose, the moment in time, what you do, who you’re with, your needs, desires, and personality, money, and, of course, pure luck. more >>

The Missed Flight

I did something really dumb this week.

Something I’ve never, ever done in all my 40-something years of traveling.

I missed my flight.

Not just any old flight.

But my flight back home to Salvador

– which, actually entailed three flights:
1) New York-Charlotte
2) Charlotte-Rio de Janeiro
3) Rio de Janeiro-Salvador
(all of which works out to around 14 hours in the air and 20 hours in limbo).

Amazingly, I have absolutely no great excuse for having missed this flight – beyond the fact that I was completely and utterly convinced that I was departing NYC on July 19 and arriving in Brazil on July 20. more >>