Getting cellular service again...
So back on the blackberry's writing this blog..
It is Saturday at about 7 pm....and we are in Alter Do Chao laying in a room at this very cool jungle all natural hotel, we are about 2 stories high so we can see trees completely surrounding us...not too much animal life to see BUT you hear everything at night... Sometimes if you let your imagination run...then you can totally imagine jaguars hunting right outside or perhaps there's the tarantula making its web to spoil a poor bird's life or maybe the tree snakes that make there way out at night might slip through the crack under the door and BAM!
A quick stat on the Amazon: 6 Million sq km and the river represents 17 percent of the world's fresh water and as of last year it surpassed the Nile to be the longest river in the world. Basically new scientists tracked the start of the river deeper into the mountain jungles of Peru.
So how does it feel to be in the heart of it.... well it is at times sureal, at times scary as hell, exhilirating, other times monotonous in particular if your locked on a river boat for 50 hours and all you see in the distance is hundreds of millions of trees lining the edge, BUT most of the time it just feels good..maybe it has to do with all the fresh oxygen we're breathing or catching a glimpse of a parrot or a 1 inch warrior ant, or maybe it's just knowing that we are able to experience this in our lifetime especially when you know that in 50-60 years at the rate of deforestation... perhaps the very jungle spot we are writing this blog from turns into a metal and glass office building to make way for the civilized men and women that have found virgin paradise and decided to move in... But that implies having money to live and buy food that is imported which naturally means that people need money thus jobs need to be created and that means that industries can start to move into this paradise and set up shop, creating jobs that lead to money to buy homes, cars, food, entertainment, that the new settlers consume...
I say this all because it is happening and you can see it by witnessing all the small towns that are emerging along the stretch of the longest river in the world... Of course at this point they are only small towns but in a few decades I guarantee that there will be towers of concrete, steel, glass dotting the AMAZON RIVER.
I hope it stays virgin forever...
Sent by Jeffrey via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
It is Saturday at about 7 pm....and we are in Alter Do Chao laying in a room at this very cool jungle all natural hotel, we are about 2 stories high so we can see trees completely surrounding us...not too much animal life to see BUT you hear everything at night... Sometimes if you let your imagination run...then you can totally imagine jaguars hunting right outside or perhaps there's the tarantula making its web to spoil a poor bird's life or maybe the tree snakes that make there way out at night might slip through the crack under the door and BAM!
A quick stat on the Amazon: 6 Million sq km and the river represents 17 percent of the world's fresh water and as of last year it surpassed the Nile to be the longest river in the world. Basically new scientists tracked the start of the river deeper into the mountain jungles of Peru.
So how does it feel to be in the heart of it.... well it is at times sureal, at times scary as hell, exhilirating, other times monotonous in particular if your locked on a river boat for 50 hours and all you see in the distance is hundreds of millions of trees lining the edge, BUT most of the time it just feels good..maybe it has to do with all the fresh oxygen we're breathing or catching a glimpse of a parrot or a 1 inch warrior ant, or maybe it's just knowing that we are able to experience this in our lifetime especially when you know that in 50-60 years at the rate of deforestation... perhaps the very jungle spot we are writing this blog from turns into a metal and glass office building to make way for the civilized men and women that have found virgin paradise and decided to move in... But that implies having money to live and buy food that is imported which naturally means that people need money thus jobs need to be created and that means that industries can start to move into this paradise and set up shop, creating jobs that lead to money to buy homes, cars, food, entertainment, that the new settlers consume...
I say this all because it is happening and you can see it by witnessing all the small towns that are emerging along the stretch of the longest river in the world... Of course at this point they are only small towns but in a few decades I guarantee that there will be towers of concrete, steel, glass dotting the AMAZON RIVER.
I hope it stays virgin forever...
Sent by Jeffrey via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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