The Mayer Twins Take on Two Sides of South America
April 2016
The ultimate Rio experience!! If there is such a thing… today we had ours. A sunny Saturday in Rio is reserved for a little time to play on the sand of Copacabana Beach. We already felt like we were late to the party when our alarms went off at 11am. The beach was dotted with …
Today’s the day I’ve been waiting for ever since Rio de Janeiro was added to my list of must visit destinations. We’re headed to the top of Corcovado Mountain to visit the iconic statue of Cristo Redentor. You don’t think of Rio without thinking of this religious and cultural landmark of Jesus Christ standing tall …
Not going to lie… It was awesome waking up this morning to a view of Copacabana Beach. All my nights on the road for work scored us a pretty sweet upgrade and ocean view room! Being huge sports fans, we wanted to make sure we had a chance to visit Maracanã stadium. Even though it’s currently …
Sooooo, we’re burnt. Like really burnt… Aka, it looks like we both laid on a grill. Too much fun in the sun yesterday 🙂 Good thing the plan for today includes some time in the shade. While most visitors take a taxi boat to the island’s most popular beach destination, Lopes Mendes, we’re going to …
Another early morning… Not going to lie, I didn’t sleep last night. I kept thinking there have to be snakes on this island and that they could easily fit through the space underneath our door. It’s not looking good for sleeping outside in the mountains of Peru. (I just told Brittany this now as I’m …
We were sad to say goodbye to Buzios and Vila D’este, our wonderful hotel… But it’s on to Ilha Grande. Rennan, our driver, picked us up and drove us the four hours south along the Costa Verde to the town of Conceição de Jacareí, where we jumped on a water taxi to make the twenty …
Brittany and I decided to throw it back to the sleepy fisherman village days with a lazy Sunday in Buzios. After a late start and a relaxing morning that included breakfast on the hotel patio overlooking the harbor, we headed over to João Fernandes Beach. We decided to walk the 2 km to keep active in …
Even though we went to bed early, we didn’t necessarily get to catch up on sleep. We were up by 7am to hit our hotel’s Brazilian style breakfast spread before our car rental was delivered. Well not so much car… more like a buggy convertible. It wasn’t the easiest thing to drive, but we figured …
So despite Britt and I both having plenty of room to spread out due to each of us having an entire row to ourselves… sleep was not in the cards. There were too many distractions (personal media center with movies and TV shows, dinner with wine, dessert with more wine and breakfast) and we both …
Yeah well “alpacacking” the bags wasn’t so easy!! Try fitting everything into one bag when you need to pack for average temps of 88 degrees in Brazil and then averages of 60 degrees in Peru, but lows in the 30s at night, which by the way, you’ll be sleeping outside in!! Not so easy my friends… …