the boomer live

Arrived at Porto Belo around 7am, it’s a tender port and there is a swell. You’ve heard the saying white men can’t jump, well white men cant jump into a rising and falling tender either! With the help of two sailors on the docking platform and another two on the boat most people made it [...]

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Skipped breakfast this morning, eating way too much! Went to the shopping center this morning, there is a store called Beagle with some nice clothes (sort of toned down Hollister) I wanted to check out. Helpful store clerk Pedro spoke good English, when we decided not to buy he started pulling out different T’s, not [...]

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Azamara Journey S. America Cruise 2007 – Itajai Day 1   After docking there was a group of young people doing folkloric dances on the pier,  they were quite enthusiastic. The pax disembarking at that time only had one thing in mind Iguaca  Falls this is a two day tour to the famous falls. We [...]

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8a.m. there is a buzz about the ship, a rumor of blue skies! Yes, finally a nice day. stayed on deck reading “Nothing Can Go Wrong”, (more on the book later) at 10:30am we went down to the port lecture, actually gave some pretty good info, not the usual, this store is great, this store [...]

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  Rain again this morning. We anchor in the bay at Parati, it’s a shallow bay so we are about 3 miles out from the dock, a 30 minute tender ride. By the time we go ashore its stopped raining but is very cloudy. The tender dock is full of fishing boats and tour schooners [...]

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Rain! Rain! Rain! Its pouring down. But these two travelers are going to enjoy Rio come hell or high water (it very well maybe high water!) Breakfast delivered to cabin again, on time and Vicki commented that the waffles are excellent. Down to meet Marcelo at 9am. First stop Maracana Football Stadium (soccer), it used [...]

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I (Mick) got up early to watch our entry into the harbor of Rio, a very impressive sight. From harbor entrance to dock takes about an hour. (Tip:Port side cabins just have to open their curtains ) We had breakfast delivered to our cabin, my omelet was delicious and hot (a first for room service [...]

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We made the connection in Miami and when we arrived in Sao Paulo we found out that our luggage had as well. Hooray! Immigration and customs took about 45 mins. Then we waited about another 40 mins while the Azamara local staff collected other passengers and made sure they had all the people they were [...]

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