10Weeks: South America

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View from my balcony in Rio

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Ipanema Favela -- you can see in the last photo how all the fancy hotels at down on the beach to the right. Just four or five blocks behind those hotels starts a sprawl of favelas -- slums that creep up the hills. Packed with people. I believe 60,000 people live in the favela pictured here. There are not really any streets, just an intricate system of alleyways and walkways.

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Today we got caught in this parade along the beach in Ipanema

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Ipanema beach.

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Rio.

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I travel light these days.

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Conventional tea cups are far too small for this British woman. She likes a solid bowl of tea.

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Bogota, Columbia

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Today at lunch the waitress gave me a bracelet with the Colombian colors, so that I could take a piece of Columbia with me. It's the seemingly insignificant moments in life that I am beginning to find so sacred.

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Cali, Columbia. Some serious high diving went down.

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Leticia. Everyone here rides motorbikes. You can see entire families of four stacked up on a little honda dirt bike. There are no roads in or out of Leticia, a town that boarders Peru, Brazil, and Columbia. A true river town that serves as a main hub for all the outlying tribal regions.

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Too many days I forget to look up and remember where I am.

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Jessica decided to order piranha tonight. Teeth and all. Tasty, but would not want to meet a live one.

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The Amazon

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Making music.

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Current location.

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A moment of peace at the oceans edge.