i leave for Manaus in the morning to go to the research station in the Amazon. i'll be out of contact for the next 10 days or so but i'll be sure to upload pictures when we get into Curitiba!

visa not mastercard

the visa gods smiled down on me today and granted my wish.

here's a video from a brazilian band. sounds nice and the members are yummy in an emo jimmy fallon sort of way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHUBN74kxdU

citing...

the previous post has a link to some really great pictures of where we will be staying.

they were put together by Freiderike Seeger who was one of the main planners of the trip. the other person in the pictures is Professor Seth Reice. he is a professor of biology at UNC and the architect of the whole trip.

here we go

this will be my first real attempt at keeping up with a journal, so we shall see how it works out. i have a feeling that if i don't commit to it this time, the parents will have me shipped back to the united states in a cardboard box.

disclaimer: i don't like capitalizing things. if you have a problem with that, you should probably get over it now :-)

the first big step in my journey will start tomorrow with the trip down to atlanta to apply for a visa. hopefully everything will work out so that i don't have to go all michael phelps and swim there.

next week i'll fly down to miami and stay with some of my favorite family members (hi Tom and Carlos!) until the 19th when i leave for manaus.

in the link is an overview of where we will go on our trip. the places in the slideshow are pretty much in the opposite order of what we will be doing though.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=19sh4h93.c628aqoz&x=0&y=-37ailf&localeid=en_US&cm_mmc=site_email-_-site_share-_-core-_-view_photos_album

Enjoy!