this is vacation...
Here is what happened yesterday...
I left for Brazil with my older sister, she's never been to Brazil or any of these other countries that I have left my mark at
.
Got to the hotel late in Chuy, Uruguay, tried to get the room warm with the room heater BUT there was way too much humidity in the room for any doing.
Took a shower BUT the water NEVER heated up, then it did.
The process took about an hour or more, remember it was cold and humid and there are not many clothes on(because I am "ready" to take the shower...
After the water warms up, I enjoy the heck out of the hot water(about an hour or so...
), therefore the shower/bath is FULL of humidity and DRIPPING water from every wall imaginable.
I enjoyed it BUT the sister(being older and all that...), thought I was a little kid for leaving the bathroom a mess
!
So on we go after the WONDERFULL Brazilian breakfast to the customs and border..., I get there with a smile and a happy face BUT the VISA to enter Brazil has been expired for a long time(in my passport)!
Remember that we left Uruguay, all the Uruguay paperwork was left behind:
1. could not enter Brazil
and
2. couln't really re-enter Uruguay because we had never "entered" and left Brazil, so NO paperwork!
We were in a 2 kilometer "no persons land" for 2 hours...
.
After huge smiles of jokes, laughter, of THEM asking for subsidized help/aid in form of Chilean wine(of course, there is no official petition...), the Uruguay customs officials remembering me from last year via their port to Brazil...,
they did issue an entry permit(two hours waiting).
They did not have any more entry forms and could not find any paper..., and then had to wait to print it on official Uruguay stationery colors
.
We did not get very far that day !
Experience is what I call it, others would have stripped their head bald or grown gray hairs instantly
.
Mañana back to B. Aires..., via Colonia and the fast "Buquebus"
.
PS.(Brazil breakfast has LOTS of fruit, ie: papaya, bananas, peaches, mango, juice, etc...
Uruguaian persons regard Chile wine being the better of all the wines...)
so far, only 3.000 miles this trip.