10:52a.m.
On our way to Cabo Frio
This is the second bus of today that we’ve taken. I woke up at 6:30 in the morning, took a shower, are breakfast and we left São João del-Rei at 8:00. Hour and a half later, we arrived in Barbacena. 1.5 hrs down, 6.5 hrs to go.
11-29-09
5:44a.m.
As I expected, I woke up an hour before my alarm went off.. Guess I’ll start writing from where I left off. We reached Cabo Frio, then took another bus to Arraial do Cabo (only like 10min). Nice little town, not what I expected but seemed fun. Walked around until we found a decent hotel at a decent price and dropped off our stuff. After getting comfortable, we went off to find the beach. Eventually, we found it; completely deserted and dark, it was night time by then. We took a nice nighttime stroll in the water and played a little in the sand. Susan kinda got stung by a tiny jellyfish, nothing serious. On our way back, we stopped at a nice little wood oven pizzeria to eat, then proceeded back to the hotel to go to bed. As for today? I’ll probably let Susan sleep for another hour or two before we set off on our adventure. Our plan is to go on this hike to what seems like a nice, secluded beach. All of this was planned off of Google Earth so no idea what we’re going to find...
11-29-09
7:21p.m.
Sippin a caipirinha on the beach.
11-30-09
5:37a.m.
Watching the sunrise.
11-30-09
9:44a.m.
Even though I’m writing this as I go in a journal, I still can’t keep up with this trip...
We’re on a bus now, waiting for it to leave to Rio de Janeiro. No, not Barbacena, not São João, but Rio. Why? Because we kind of missed our first bus... But, this isn’t what you want to read, you want to hear about yesterday. Well, again, I guess I’ll start from where I left off from last time. After finishing that that last entry, I went back up to the room to get a few more hours of sleep. After waking up a second time and getting ready, we took off for the beach. The first beach that we hit was nice but we were just using it as a landmark to get us to the real thing. And so we got our feet wet and walked on to our final destination. We walked probably around half the town before coming to the entrance of the mountain we needed to hike to get to our beach. After a nice, long, steep, hot, hike up the mountain, we finally got to see the other side of the mountain and oh what a site it was:
We walked around that side for a while until realizing that being out in this heat with no water and not knowing when the next time we could find shelter was not the greatest idea. And so we turned back to find something to drink. On our way back down, we noticed a a sign for a restaurant and decided to try to find it. Well after a about a mile of walking in the heat, we started thinking that maybe trying to find this place wasn’t such a good idea given the circumstances. So we started waving down cars to see if they knew anything or had any suggestions. After a while, one car did stop and ended up giving us a ride all the way to the beach. God, that AC felt nice, so did those water bottles we chugged when we got there, only problem was, there wasn’t a beach here. “So, where’s the beach?” “You walk down that path there.” said the man selling the water. “Right, okay” I thought to myself. The path looked quite treacherous. It was almost like rock climbing though a forest. Bot eventually, the forest thinned, and then, at last, we found it. I’m no professional writer but I’m sure even a person like Thoreu couldn’t describe the beauty of this place. And so:
Heh, even the picture doesn’t even do it justice... And so we swam here for a few hours, built a sand, wall? Took lots of pictures and video, and generally had a wonderful time. After having our fair share of fun in the sun, we decided to explore the rest of this little peninsula. So we hiked back up the mountain path and headed further along the dirt road. It was amazing, after every curve, it just seemed to get more and more beautiful. That was, until we hit the grand finale: The top of the world! From here, we could see the ocean on our left, the peninsula in front, the little ‘mini-gulf’ with our beach to our right, and an island to our backs...........
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