I had a very good sleep again yesterday night and woke up late but very fresh. I could really get used to my new home just because of the good night sleep. All services available including security, lots of benefits like in house restaurants, in house pharmacy, in house library and easy access to transport; plane, helicopter, bus and taxi. The only fixed costs, my monthly internet plan for 22,90 Reales. I was wondering for how long I could really stay at the airport before the security or the administration would notice my day and night presence and would politely inquire first and then take the necessary consequences. I am sure they do not have a plan for someone like me.

I was doing progress on the work for the project  Rio 2016 and had all the pictures edited and up to date. I was enjoying the days at the airport, enjoying the time working on the project  Rio 2016 and enjoying inquiring about various other matters related to the journey. I had plenty of time and lots of thoughts sneaked into my head; only now that they had sneaked in I realized that I must have had a large queue of thoughts in my brain and I must work off this queue in the same way I work off the queue for the project  Rio 2016, no excuses, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, week after week. The difference to the queue for the project  Rio 2016 may be, that I had to work off things in my brain beyond the project  Rio 2016, month after month and even more beyond; year after year.

While I was saving information or uploading to the site I jumped between pages and looked up international news, background information and alternative routes. I had already a major change to my route due to the closed border between Venezuela and Colombia and I was actually in a totally different location than I had planned. I had pretty much excluded the Amazon as much as possible from the original route; I had visited different regions and countries of the Amazon in previous visits; travelling in the Amazon is extremely difficult, even worse, almost impossible with a car. I was happy now that I could include some time in the Amazon into the new route and I was looking forward to a full week Amazon River cruising.

To have in-house restaurants was extremely comfortable, my decision for today’s lunch was the same as for yesterday’s lunch and for yesterday’s dinner, Bobs Burger, the Hamburger Trio with refill and a chocolate ice cream for desert. By now I celebrated eating my Hamburger Trio like a Fondue; I divided the hamburger into the part with the meat and the part with the salad and tomatoes. Further to the refill, Bobs here in Manaus offered four different sauces that you could fill yourself into small plastic cups: ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise and BBQ. I dipped every single French fry, every bite from the meat half and every bite from the vegetable half in a different sauce.

From my adventure of Mount Roraima, my adventure with my baby Matilda back to the adventure at the airport, back to work on the project  Rio 2016. I had the idea already in my mind for some time and began now to study deeper the option to include Central America into the project and travel all the way to Mexico. I liked the idea because I like the culture of the Maya and the more I read about the different historical sites the more I wanted to see them.