Adventurer – Critic – Photographer
I had scheduled the car for the inspection this morning and knew I would spend the whole day at the Volkswagen dealer. Not really much of an adventure but a necessary part of it. My only friend the car needed a break and a profound checkup. I had been using the car probably more than ...
Yesterday night I chose a different place to stay for the night. I did not want to call too much attention by staying in the same place. About half an hour after I parked a car stopped behind mine, flash lights towards me and a men talking towards me. I opened the door, got out ...
For the first time I left the car with air condition running for some hours during the night. I could not leave the windows open due to the heat and the mosquitos. It was nice cool for a change and after yesterday’s drive I was pretty tired and finally had some sleep. I woke up ...
I wanted to take it easy on the difficult part in front of me, the drive for 450 km on gravel road, not knowing the conditions and especially for me driving with a normal car. I wanted to drive just to the city of Linden and talk to local drivers to find out about the ...
Already yesterday afternoon I had a quick look of Georgetown and could not figure out what to think of this very unique city with a mixture quite new to me but with certain similarities with Jamaica. The first impression was definitely that this country and this city were not very wealthy or the government spends ...
My worries would turn out to be intuition. I did not believe that further to the heat of 36 degrees, someone could actually sweat even more than the temperature makes you. I did. I had dressed up for this exciting, worrying and crucial day and went to the border and to the ferry in casual ...
My anxiety did not let me sleep well and I went back to resting. I decided to go back to the consulate to find out about the price of the ferry in order to withdraw enough money for gas, the ferry, fees and some drinks and some food for the day. The lady did a ...
What better time of the day then doing the sightseeing in the morning when the city is still asleep, except the sun that starts to heat up after about 08:00. The historic center is small and you can do the tour easily in a day. I went to Fort Zeelandia first, including museum about the ...
Everything was so peaceful that I had decided to sleep outside underneath one of the pavilions that were lined up at the beach. After almost three weeks without rain I woke up in the early morning hours by the noise of the thunder and the rain hitting the pavilion roof. The roof was safe and ...
I had to go to the consulate of Surinam to inquire about the visa requirements for European citizens. They opened the doors at 09:00 and I had to wait for about an hour. Just opposite was the social and health institution of French Guyana and the queue from both sides of the entrance was enormous. ...
The rainforest was the same but everything else was quite different. The streets were organized, sign posted and all asphalted, had names, traffic lights and police control. The population was primarily black and spoke French. I had decided yesterday to park the car and sleep in the commercial area at the entrance of the city. ...
Borders are always critical and decisive to me with respect to the continuation of the planned route. At any border I could encounter any reason for delay or rejection which would result in changing my planned tour. Bureaucracy, documents, my appearance, there are many reasons to create situations. Before departure the owner reminded me of ...
Nothing indicated in the morning that today would be the first really adventurous, difficult and critical day of the journey. I had located a small village just off the highway and decided this to be today’s destiny at about 300 km from Macapá. I got quickly out of the city and continued on what I ...
With every day I travel I get back bit by bit my feeling of sleep. I have to be fair and mention at this stage that I had been using sleeping pills for the last six month due to sleeping problems. I will not spend time to explain the process of sleep but I am ...
For a change, the location of the night’s rest place on the ferry, open fresh air and bathroom convenient downstairs, made a small difference and I had the feeling of sleep. Space to put your legs the way you want was a new experience after some time now. The cost for this experience was, due ...
The humidity is present, especially early in the morning. I am having problems with the camera, probably due to the extreme bright light and the humidity and the lack of my knowledge of the menu and all the options that I might have to change and use under the given circumstances. The drive, still or ...
Before the city woke up completely, I did and went straight to the ferry, which would take me from São Luis to the other side of the quite big bay. This would save me to drive back the 100 km on the bad road, maybe even worse, as it was Monday morning and business definitely ...
I changed location three times, first due to mosquitos, second due to music noise and third after midnight due to heat. I ended up opposite the latest construction site of Cyrela. I got up and enjoyed the silence, silence of a big city on a Sunday morning. I am sure poetically and philosophically there are ...
Sleep is still very complicated; the time you use for rest is the same as the time you might use for sleep and finally it is the body itself that gets what he needs. I think the body does not really need sleep, it is the mind. My mind is on a high speed and ...
I would soon realize, that as good as the planning and the road maps are, that reality turns out to be different, from very different to slightly different, roads from weather affected to simply not existing or disappeared. The beginning of the today’s tour was very panoramic again and reminded me of the impressions I ...
I decided to continue working for a bit. A full day just on the beach at place I have been before, did not make too much sense to me and at this time of the day, in the morning, the senses are pretty sharp. So I decided to listen to my sharp senses. I realized ...
I had not intentions, no spirit and no enthusiasm to actually enter the mega-city of Fortaleza. Not only because I have been in Fortaleza before. My refusal was more because after so much silence and peace in the desert of the northeast of Brazil, I was simply not ready, I did not want to. I ...
The Mirador was a nice place to open my eyes. I had rested. I went to the supermarket and had an Aquarius and a turkey sandwich, actually two. [videos file="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiROxDLBJBg" width="" height=""] It was still very early and I had only a short drive to get to Canoa Quebrada where I already had been before, for a weekend. ...
The Mirador was a nice place to open my eyes. I had rested. I went to the supermarket and had an Aquarius and a turkey sandwich, actually two. Prepared by myself, I just simply bought turkey ham and two French bread, opened the bread and put the turkey ham in. Turkey sandwich sounds sophisticated, something ...
I had to change place during the night from the beach to the salt installations at the entrance of the village. Two handful of boys from the neighborhood turned up and I wanted to prepare myself well for the today's leave. Not that they were noisy, no, there was something else. I felt that it ...