Jesus Statue.

February 24th 2001
We have finally arrived at our first stop on our round-the-world trip: sunny Rio de Janeiro! After a 14 hour plane journey, we arrived in 40 degrees temperatures. We dumped our stuff in the nice air-conditioned hotel and went straight to Ipanema Beach. At night it stays really hot and humid too at about 30 degrees C. Rio is an absolutely HUGE city, with a marked difference between rich and poo ... read more

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Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of t... ... read more

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Sharon and Scott

Born to travel

Scott and I have always been travellers at heart. We first met on the beach in Spain in 1995 and had what we thought was "just a holiday romance". We met again briefly a year later in Salzburg, Austria and then a few years later in Hawaii. At the time, I was working in Japan, and Scott was back in California after his two years in Barcelona, Spain. Together, we have left it all behind to backpack around the world, not once, not twice, but three times. Travel really is addictive! Each time, we'd quit our jobs, put our meager belongings into storage or sell what was too big to store, leave o... full info

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