Heya Wayne

Thanks for your compliments, definitely some neat places here.

Lots more to come

Cheers Andi

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Heya Joe

Usted es amigo de bienvenida, muy bueno tener a lo largo y disfrutar de nuestra aventura.

Saludos Andi

Heya Joe

You are welcome friend, very nice to have you along and enjoy our adventure.

Cheers Andi

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Heya Noel

Yes this place has a far nicer effect on you than their neighbours place, what a difference it makes to your mind and body.

Great news about your mum too that is nice to hear, pyhsio twice daily will make a huge difference.

Again wish her well from us next time you talk to her, most days I think about it as I have a lot of time to contemplate life and what it brings while riding straight roads, what happened to your mum was not good and up there with what happened with Ellen only Ellen has not suffered injuries like your mum.

She is a soldier

Cheers Andi

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Leaving Ponta Pora saw us as sorted as we could get with huge thanks to Aldo and Wagner.

Maya had started missing a bit at lower throttle openings but I didn’t think much of it there other than we must have picked up some dirty fuel which will sort it self out with later fills.

Heading to Battaguassu was an easy day, but still cold with the weather system playing a hard game for the day.

We decided to stay there for a coupla nights still feeling a little less than idea with both of us still sporting a bit of snot from a generous donor, I think just travel weary and tiredness etc caught us up.

The crossing of Rio Paraña



Onwards to Ourinhos, very nice and tidy town with lots and lots of shops, looks like a servicing center for the surrounding area, we tried to find a new water boiler as our one crapped itself in Santa Cruz, plenty of big ones but no traveller size boilers, might have to dodgy something up again.:evil

Our last stop before hitting Sao Paulo was Itu, another nice wee town ....no pics though, firstly we forgot the camera and secondly it is just a town.

Slabbing it from Itu we dived off the main drag (still on tar though) and took the back road, arriving in Sao Paulo (another nice wee town of 16 million) we picked up our new debt cards and made our way to our couchsurfers place ready for a fun filled few days.

Like bits of Europe in places



Edu .. our host, his family lives in Santos at the coast so the plan was to invade his family, terrorize them and we were to stay at Edus sisters apartment, firstly tho was a night on the town on Friday night involving grog, lies and dancing with a little chickie chatting up in between (for Edu not me).

How is this for a welcome!!





The had a live band (never seen a dead one) and they shouted out English sounds :clap....and well.



Not to disappoint it was a 3.30am finish with a skin full of all sorts, dancing and good times.:freaky:freaky

Come Saturday morning Edu had bottle flu and was as white as a ghost but with a phone number is hand he was a happy chappy.:wink:

Santos, cool coast city and loaded with scenery .... of sorts.

Perfect people ... ouwh to be a young punk again :rofl



Some of the older buildings in Santos are having foundation problems, see the leaning towers of Santos ... as an engineering type this spooked me



This guy has the coolest yellow shirt



The guy with the cool yellow shirt is still there ... man he can run rofl



Then ... the camera played up, no telling when but seems to be mountain shots and clear felling of bushed areas .. gotta sort that out



Measuring the waves for height :wink:



The stonework on the walls is well done and standing up well



Another night at the local, Edu and mates out for fun, we had a few drinks and some dancing then cashed it in, lucky we did as the boys got home at 7.00am.:eek1:eek1

Sunday afternoon while we were out crusing with Edu and family, 4.30 pm we noticed some black smoke from the port, not a good look and turned out to be a monty sugar fire.



Picture from the internet of the damage :eek1



A picture with the mob.



View of Santos from the top, pretty cool



Some waterfront art at Santos







Edus sister Ana Paula and I



After successfully terrorizing Edus family Sunday night saw us cruise back to to Sao Paulo.

I will add at this point Edus family were outstanding to say the least, very welcoming and warm to the two strays that Edu bought to them, they fed and watered us, the only thing we could do was supply the Coca Cola and Guarana as everything else was done.:clap

An uneventful trip saw us safely home, being a school night for Edu bedtime was sought at a reasonable hour.

Monday, relax day, we went for a walk and bought some sushi stuff for tea that night and Edu told lies to his boss so he could come home earlier, Ellen made the bulk of the sushi, Edu was the student and I was the official photographer, such was the job done well we celebrated with a bottle of port .....good times.



Selfies :roflEdu was very happy and proud of the sushi:clap



Tuesday we left back out to the coast via a different road then north us the coast via the BR 101, neat coastal road.

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Can't believe you two are still riding around!

Did the missing continue? I found the high ethanol content in Brazil required some carb adjustments.

Plenty of nice photos in there. Good memories of Brazil!

All the best

Heya Snatchy

Yes still having a look around and loving Brasil.

I am pretty sure we have water in the fuel as it came on suddenly after a fill, I hope that is the problem, we are fueling up with the good stuff and not the ethanol.

Any good advice will be taken

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Glad you two have found your happy place ,Mum continues to improve ,some short walking now with help of a walking frame . Yes i miss youth a bit too ,haha .no shortage of the lovely ladies so it would seam.anyhoo carry on YDF Noel.

Heya Noel

Easy to be happy here man, totally different take of life to their neighbours.

Good news on ya mum too.

Met up with Sheldon, fello Ozzie traveller on a F800 GS with his girlfriend Ev, great people and gonna do some riding with them.

Cheers Andi

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Leaving Sao Paulo after good times we headed the wrong way over the truckers road to Santos .... was cool tho.

Heading up the BR 101 saw us going coastal, cruising and taking it easy, Maya now running like a bag of shit at lower RPM after the water from the bad batch of fuel made itself at home in the carbs.

We put an additive in but it does not seem to be very successful so far, will see the tank through with the cleaner and assess it from there, really trying to avoid lifting the carburetors out as they really are in the heart of the bike and it is a big job.

We stayed the first night at Caraguatatuba, the town smaller than its name and nice place to stay, the owner of the hostal a petrolhead having three motos including a 600 Tenere.

An easy start to the next day with a walk along the beach (a run for Ellen) then it was was back out on the 101 north along the coast, diving off the main drag saw us go through small seaside villages, very nice wee towns along a piece of paradise.

Ellen jogging down the beach



Small seaside town and river



Trinidade was recommended to us so we took the exist into town, it was quite busy so we decided to carry on out to Paraty Mirim and camp a couple of nights, which turned into four nights as the place was beautiful and we had beaches to ourselves ..... kinda cool.

Road out of Trinadade



In Paraty Mirim there is a beautiful waterfall, again we had the whole place to ourselves so a sit in the sun and listen to the water ... tranquilo :clap



The waterfall





At one beach there was a young Kiwi with a Chinese chickie .....having snuggly buggly cos there was no one else around.

This pic comes with a health warning ... there are splinters on the deck :eek1



Our intentions for the following day was to head into Paraty township, a historical place and the first settlement in this region for Brasil however we met another couple from Sao Paulo that were staying at the hostel, they invited us for a 1.5 hours walk which turned into 5 hours and walking through stunning areas of prime beachfront lodges, one place was “if you have to ask the price you cannot afford to stay here” place.

We nearly couldn't afford to take this photo rofl



Stunning place



Here is our temporary millionaires photo



Mum nature decided we had enough great weather and she turned on the rain that night and the whole of the following day so Paraty was cold and wet, seems to be the norm every time we hit a tourist town in Brasil.

Maya, lonely under a tree and sitting in the rain



The flooded streets of Paraty





The hostel we stayed at in Paraty Mirim, very nice place, pictured here with other guest and thw owner Pedro on the right.
If you want to find them, go to www.paratyparadiso.com.br



There are these small monkeys here and they are cheekie little buggas but pretty cool, they are the size of a small cat



The last 263km stretch to the famous Rio De Janeiro to meet up with Sheldon and Ev, Sheldon is from Ozzie and Ev is an angel sent from Poland, they are travelling on a KTM coloured F800 GS.

Rio De Janeiro .....next up.

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seeing the bum shot i thought ,mmm been hanging out with sheldon and ev too long ,i see their stuff on FB a fair bit of the time ,Sheldon is a real Aussie LAD ,makes me laugh with some of his posts ,Ev must be a great sport to put up with him.We have had a spot of much needed rain here too ,took the day off yesterday to drive the 9 hours down to Kingaroy to see my Rhonda .Any hoo as always enjoyed your post YDF Noel

Heya Noel

Yeah sorry for spoilin ya day mate

Sheldon who ... yeah good buggas and great to hang with them, nice to talk to someone who actually understands you too.

Good news on the rain man, always nice to get things growing again.

Cheers Andi

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The road up from Paraty very scenic along the coast, the tail end of the cold spell still playing with us and the road damp in places but as the day grew older the temperature climbed again.

Coastal was the order of the day sneaking into Copacabana the back way which was easy given our hostel was just off the main drag in.



We had organised to meet up with Sheldon and Ev and they had already booked in to the hostel.

On our arrival our booking had been mucked up, the manager who was not there had dropped the ball completely and was quite offensive, we then got the owner Fabio involved who stepped in and sorted it out working everything out to keep everyone happy.:clap

It's not easy to find a reasonable priced hostel in Rio with parking, we were very happy with the location and service.
http://www.lagoagusethouse.com.


We spent the next day going for a tour with Sheldon and Ev who were local enough to know there way round ...outstanding!!!!



At the top of the hill in the plants Ellen spotted a green butterfly, hadn't seen these before



Me Kiwi, Ellen Chiwi, Ev Polish & Sheldon Ozzie ....slightly international in Rio



Dodgy bemma riders :rofl



Some interested people at the famous stair in Rio



We decided to hit it the next day and head north along the coast line, getting out of Rio was interesting with traffic jams and serious heat, poor ol Maya still runnin rough from the crappy fuel so I will have to clean the carbs.

Ev and Sheldon



We only made it 33 km (big day) ....nearly as far as Itacoatiara when a Suzuki car pulled up beside Sheldon and said where you going?, Sheldon says talk to the guys up front cos they are leading, so the Suzuki pulls up and the dude says where ya going, I replied and said dunno but north and we are turning right here.

A quick conversation before the lights changed he said, there is a nice beach etc follow me so we did, we pulled over further down and he said there is a nice beach etc and if you want you can come and stay at my house .... done deal!!!

So the beach appeared with scenery walking everywhere .... Sheldon and I stoked at the scenery, Eve and Ellen stoked to be a in a nice place but there was chickie eye candy too so everyone was happy.

Paulo (our new found host) took us to back to his house, under the cover was a new 12 Tenere, he is a rider too. Later we found out he had met our friends the World Wide Ride Sara and Dan in Argentina.

Ditching the bikie gear we turned into humans and took a walk back to the beach and their local clubhouse which saw us rehydrate and have to go for a swim ... hard times.





A walk along the beach netted some great views and the sun warming our backs and to finish a walk to the supermarket to get sushi supplies.

There is nice sand here too



Ev gettin frisky .... (sorry chick you need different parts for that:evil)



The sand was a different colour at this end of the beach



I like yello :eek1



Some real talent here, if I get into this position call me an ambulance :eek1:eek1



Ellens section, apparently this is good swimming sea



More on Itacoatiara ...... no more beachkini shots though :lol3

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Needs to be done

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Hopefully last one

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Last one

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