Wow. It's been a few days while since I wrote a Brazil article and it seems like a lifetime has gone by.
I've had my dental surgerytwo bone grafts and three implants and this week started getting 17 resin veneers. Amazingly, I've had almost no pain. And the bone grafts were not cadaver. They used a synthetic product from Switzerland that's combined with my own blood.
It was tough living on liquids and smoothies the first two days. On the sixth day I went to an all you could eat Charusco place. It really wasn't any better than similar places in the US, but it cost 60% less.
The next day we drove about 200 kilometers to Montevidiu, near Rio Verde. Once we left the Goiania city limits, the views were amazing, like nothing I've seen in the USvistas of fields and verdant greenery that stretch as far as the eye can see.
I remember a view like that when I visited Novosibirsk Siberia, in 1993, but the views in Brazil went on for scores of kilometers, broken every 20 or 30 kilometers by a small town or a food processing plant. I kept thinking how this was Brazil's big Sky country. Check out my Facebook page for multiple postings of photos and videos.
Later, I got to thinking how the US has, in most places, wiped out such tableaus. They still exist in Canada and other places, but not in the US that I've seen. It's not perfect. Huge swathes of those open spaces were devoted to farmingsoybeans, rice, corn, cane, And next to those farms were a lot of signs suggesting that these massive crops, sometimes with fields stretching for a kilometer or more, were GMgenetically modified, not necessarily Bayer/Monsanto, but GM nonetheless. I could see how Brazil could be the country that feeds much if the world, if they want to. They probably already are.
I'd also see signs with messages from Bolsonaro, or about Bolsonaro, saying how agriculture loves him.
We stayed with my wife's sister's family in Montevidiu, in what from the outside looked like a typical housea door, and a metal gate. But it's amazing how different these homes can be behind those gates. This one included covered parking for six cars, wit gardens to the side. Houses here are not sealed airtight, for the sake of air conditioning or keeping bugs out. Whole walls are left open for air and sun. With the tropical climate it can drop down to the sixties at night. And it can hit high eighties (32-34 C) during the day. My wife reminded me that it's only the US that uses Fahrenheit. American Exceptionalism or just another way to keep Americans separated from the rest of the world and ignorant.
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
2
1
1
