after nearly 50 hours on the boat we've arrived

At an internet cafe in Santarem, Brazil. The trip itself should not have taken so long on the Amazon River, but the boat happened to stop at everyport to load and unload goods, food, boxes, cars, bikes, everything and anything you could imagine.

Makes sense since this is the only way to get around in the jungle, ROADS do not exist is most of them!


we're trying to power up the blackberry's since we ran out of batteries on the boat...hopefully soon, we'll write from them.

We are leaving this little port town and heading to the "caribbean of the Amazons", a smaller town with clear water about 1 hour from here. It's called Alter do Chao!.

There is no internet at that place, so we may have trouble communicating if the blackberry's don't get cellular coverage.

We will be back in this town (Santarem) on Saturday night because we are catching a flight to Belem. The "Mouth" of the Amazon river into the Atlantic ocean. We figured we would cough up the money and fly instead of doing another 50 hours in the river boat.
The boat is very cool and all (IN THE CABINS....NOT the hammocks room) but all we seem to do on the boat is drink and eat....the hangovers on the boat are not that fun!!

we'll do all we can to connect, but otherwise it might not be until Sunday afternoon when we get to Belem.

PS.
Please don't be afraid to send us messages, it's always fun getting them. hint hint....Margie, Dennis, Mom!!!! ;-))