All Around Brazil in 4 Minutes

We arrived home from our big trip this past Thursday, April 13 around 8 o'clock in the evening. We left happy and arrived the same. All in all it was an incredible experience and I'm so glad that we did it....

You can read all about each place we visited at our travel log @

athabrazilroadtrip.blogspot.com

Trip Stats:

slept in the back of Pajero 4 times at truck stops
stayed with friends 4 times
slept at a bed and breakfast once
stayed at one cheap hotel
spent one night at a hostel
stayed two nights at a campground
stayed in guest accomodations at two Bible colleges
visited three museums
visited three national parks, three state parks, and one city park
took around 4500 photos between the three of us
visited three Bible colleges
saw 5 different waterfalls including the largest of Brazil
visited one cave
took paid tours of three cities
ate at three different Burger King restaurants
one Subway
one McDonalds
one self-service grilled meat restaurant
stopped at one mechanic
ate about 20 tuna fish sandwiches, 20 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and around 20 cheese and salami
saw quatis, lots of tropical birds, a dead iguana, lots of cats and dogs, a lizard or two and one snake, a couple of ox and a few horses and cows, ah, a goat or two and a few sheep
paid some BR$200 in road tolls
saw all kinds of churches but mostly Christian Congregational and Roman Catholic and quite a few Evangelical Foursquare
saw one Islamic Worship Center
traveled around 6000 kilometers or the equivilant of 3728 miles
were gone for 17 nights and 18 days

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