Finally got my Brazilian visa (and a bad case of nerves)

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January 15th 2009

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South American Tour 2009

Jan 20 - Fly from Winnipeg to TorontoJan 20 -Fly from Toronto to Sao Paulo, BrazilJan 21 -Arrive in Sao PauloJan 21 - Bus (10 hrs) to Curtiba, BrazilJan 27(?) - Bus to Sao Paulo, BrazilFeb 05 - Fly from Sao Paulo to Buenos Aires, ArentinaFeb 6 - 1st show in La Plata! (8 hr drive)Feb 7- Drive to Buenos Aires (8 hrs)Feb 8 - Drive to Rosario (6 hrs)Feb 9 - Drive to Buenos Aires (6 hrs)Feb 10-11 - Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFeb 12 - Fly to Sao Paulo (4 hrs)Feb 12 - Drive from Sao Paulo to Belo Horizonte, Brazil (8 hrs)Feb 13 - Drive to Rio De Janero, Brazil (6 hrs)Feb 14 - Drive to Sao Paulo (8 hrs)Feb 15-19 Sao Paulo, BrazilFeb 20 - Drive to Cascavel, Brazil (8 hrs)Feb 21 - Drive to Curitiba, Brazil (8 hrs)Feb 22 - Drive to Gordriha, Brazil (6 hrs)Feb 23 - Drive to Asuncion, Paraguay (15 hrs)Feb 24-26 - Asuncion, ParaguayFeb 27 - Drive to Conception, Paraguay (5 hrs)Feb 28 - Drive to Pedro Juan, Paraguay (4 hrs)March 1 - Drive to Asuncion, Paraguay (8 hrs)March 2-5 - Asuncion, ParaguayMarch 6 - Drive to Ciudad Del Este, Paraguay (6 hrs)March 7 - Drive to Asuncion, Paraguay (6 hrs). Last show of tour!March 8-March 20 - Asuncion and/or Loma PlataMarch 20-Fly home

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Oh fuck, do I miss you!

I'm so antsy I can't sit still. It feels like my stomache is crawling around inside my chest. 6 days away (well, 5 I suppose, it is after midnight!), and it is almost starting to feel like I'm really leaving.

Talked to Florian today, and it turns out they will all be in Curitiba, Brazil, not in Sao Paulo as planned. They won't get to Sao Paulo until the 27th, so it looks like I'm taking the bus (10 hours) from Sao Paulo to Curitiba once I land. I'm actually sort of excited about that, kinda weird, I don't know. I desperately need to learn a bit of Portuguese now, if I'm going to be trying to get around by myself. Hopefully I can sleep more on the bus, and actually arrive in Curtiba with some energy left. Assuming an hour wait between landing in Sao Paulo and jumping on the bus I'll be travelling 30 hours straight. I'm still not sure how long the wait at customs will be, or how far to the bus station, so I need to add that in. It seems impossible to find out where/how much for the bus online, everyone talks about taking

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the bus, but no website to be found.

The second Florian logged off of msn the travel agency called to tell me that somehow my Brazilian visa had showed up. We sent it Friday, it came back Monday, this after he warned me that it would take a minimum of 10 days. Nice! It started to feel like this is actually going to happen, like I'm supposed to be going. Hopefully I get a chance to tell him tomorrow. I did tell Carlos, so he might already have heard.

Nervous, excited, scared, EXCITED!!! I don't even know what to be right now

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