Do you read about adventures... or do they actually happen to you?

11 December 2007

Do you spend your time reading about the adventures other people have experienced - or do you spend your time living your own?

This blog is fun. This little community - and Project Palhaco - is real. I hope I manage to portray this.

How much more real will it be, if you come here? Take your own fotos and put them here [please!], plant your own tree amongst the forest we hope to soon have once every kid gets planted [well, his tree anyway... although...]. Then come and visit your tree every now and then, and see how the whole project is growing.

Impossible to come here?

Make a list of all the reasons why you can't, all the difficulties, problems, what can go wrong, what stands in your way...

Then flush it.

Simply plan to come, and start. Email Daniel, he will help with hotel or apartment. Book some tours with him - a tour with little Daniel is an experience, trust me. Haha. You get to see what no other tourist does, that's for sure. You haven't been to the football at Maracana until you've been with him. You probably won't even see the game, buried as you will be amongst the insanity of the cheersquad. Unforgettable.

I digress. See tomorrow for how to put it together.

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