Rio de Janeiro

Surprisingly, I did not wake up with a nasty hangover, which I would have bet a million dollars would have been the case (I consumed a bottle of champagne and four caipirinhas the previous night, as well as quite possibly some shots of cachaça, but my memory is a bit foggy)....

Casa 32: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil First Impression After my flights and tours were booked, the last thing left to decide was where I would stay in Rio. I searched tirelessly to find an affordable place near the beaches of Copacabana or Ipanema, however the cheapest room I could find...

I failed to mention several things on my last post that happened after I arrived in Rio, because most of it occurred past midnight technically making it the next day. It was about 11:30PM when my plane finally landed and it was also pouring rain. My heart sank, as bad...

This post was one of the very first travel stories I ever wrote back in 2010, when my love for exploring the world was just beginning to take shape. At the time, I was deep in the dreaming and planning stages of a trip to Brazil—researching, imagining, and falling in...

Update (2026) Sixteen years ago, I pressed “publish” on this post with no idea how much it would change my life. I was younger, wide-eyed, and braver than I realized — simply declaring that travel would always be part of my story. What began as a small travel blog has...