We are spending the night in a hotel a few hours outside of Sao Paulo. The drive was challenging. Right outta the gate, we took a google shortcut onto a steep and windy cobblestone road that started out rough and narrow and got rougher and narrower. We avoided a collision on a switchback, passed a horse scavenging through a pile of trash and then encountered a full-sized bus on a road built for one. We navigated to a widespot in the road, got over as far as possible and pulled the side view mirror in. The bus pulled to the other side and crept by with less than an inch between all that metal and our rental car. It ended well and we made it to Juiz de Fora to pick up the Ford. I sweated through a work meeting in a parking lot, we grabbed a blue-collar lunch ($7 for both of us) and got back on the road. The second half of the day featured violent thunderstorms. One of the three storms hit us right in the kisser, with rain so hard we could hardly hear the thunder. We wound up the hills trying to decipher broken limbs and leaves from the mud-filled potholes. We wound down the hills through foamy run-off and puddles standing water. Once we made it to our hotel room in Resende, we stayed put, which explains why we are eating leftovers with toothpicks tonight.
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