The other day, while slinging wine in the tasting room, I began talking to a Brazilian couple who were traveling up the coast. I threw a couple of my best Portuguese phrases at them, and that, apparently, was enough to win them over.
They started telling me about all the previous destinations that they have traveled to in the last year, and we began to compare notes.
- Australia, California, France, South America. I was really starting to wish that I were on the other side of the bar for a change, and that this was just a little stop in the middle of one of MY amazing adventures.
Within about 5 minutes, the woman - Ana - had a photo taken with me, had given me her card (indicating to me that she specialized in "arquitetura" in São Paulo), written down the address of the travel blog they have been keeping, and made her boyfriend go out to the car to retrieve a CD she determined I was going to love. She was right. This was apparently a concert of one Brazilian artist I am already familiar with, who had performed with another I was unaware of. Ana had been at the concert and found out later that a live album had been made of the night.
For the last 48 hours I have been rocking out to music that I only understand about %30 of, but feel with my whole body....Sven likes it too.
*Reasons to be thankful this holiday:
-Random acts of kindness and thought from strangers.
-The view from my "office"
-Musica
-And the cranberry chutney that is to come
Things to remind myself of this holiday:
-That this IS just a little stop in the middle of, what is sure to be, yet another one of my amazing adventures.
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