this is why road trips in a car are awesome
you get to see a lot of little details of the country when you drive through it with the car
so we're gonna walk along this beach a little bit there are less and less people with every step
good morning from valencia today we are doing the first real drive of our road trip
it's early it's about 6 30 and we woke up so we could get the breakfast
at this hotel that we booked last minute and then we're going to hit the road and go to peninsula de
marao or maru we should have probably around four hours of driving not too bad
alex is still waking up over here breakfast time breakfast time
banana
empanada bread bread cornbread more bread eggs potato some papaya and whatever this melon is
let us know if you know what that is it has a yellow skin it tastes like a honeydew
to us so i think we're gonna stick with some coffee and eggs this morning and some fruit
and we're
all right we are in the car ready to go lindsay's just grabbing some coffee from the free breakfast
and then we are on our four hour drive
we've noticed in this little town that people are selling things on the side of the road
specifically blue crabs they have a little bowl with a couple crabs in the bowl and
they're just sitting on the side of the road trying to sell it to cars as they go by
that is really interesting yeah we haven't seen that before so we're wondering if maybe
this is a special town for a particular crab it probably is because we've already seen
a few guys in just a few minutes that are just standing there selling their crabs out of a bowl
wow those are all crabs
and they're selling this stuff too
this is why road trips in a car are awesome because if we were in the bus we would go
buy that so fast and we would be kind of up high we wouldn't even notice something like that
or be able to stop and like take it in and think about it so yeah you get to see a lot of little
details of the country when you drive through it with the car we're enjoying it so far we just got
out of the actual town of valencia so the driving is a lot easier now we avoided all accidents it
was a little nerve-wracking a bunch of people were in the streets if you're brazilian you know what
it's like but as someone coming from the us it's pretty different than the way people drive here so
i think we're going to get used to it it'll probably take a few days but it's fun yeah that's
the hard thing is you're watching for people walking pedestrians crossing people riding on
their motorcycles bikes and the cars so there's a lot going on and plus we don't know our way around
locals kind of know how to drive one car next to another or like a car next to a motorbike but
like in the u.s we have these lines that show you where to go you kind of stay in your lines
in your lane well yeah in your lanes but they use lines to segregate each part so you know exactly
where to be and you stay in that in brazil they don't have so many of these lines these lanes
and so you just have to know where to be and as a local you do as us you don't and even if there
are lines they're just a guideline you don't have to follow them they're weaving in and out
for us the lines are rules here it's like a guideline here are their options
the reason i've never rented a car in another country is you're supposed to know how to drive
i know all of the rules of wherever you're driving and each country is different and
some of these places there's no stop sign or stop light or anything at least within these
cities and i don't know if i'm supposed to stop or go and other cars are coming the other way and
they're either stopping or they keep going when in doubt you just kind of slow down i guess and yield
following locals is one thing but if you're in front of the pack and there's no one to follow
you have to make that decision and hope that you're right
it's a little scary it can be intimidating driving in a different
country
what is that place turned into like storefronts but suddenly abandoned but not quite
we've noticed there's always long lines for banks in brazil always so far we've noticed in
brazil that when you leave the main roads the tar asphalt roads and highways when you get into the
smaller towns and villages a lot of times at least around here they turn into like cobblestone roads
which is awesome it gives like a small town older feel to these little towns
for the last hour it's been a beautiful perfect sunny day and now it is a tropical rainstorm
suddenly notice that tends to happen here that the rain can just come out of nowhere
and then stop out of nowhere there have been so many potholes and alex
has done a pretty good job at avoiding them we also noticed there's tons of speed bumps
like all throughout this drive and they're big too you could really mess up your car if you
don't go slow and see them you don't really see because there's puddles in them so they look flat
realities of a road trip we just stopped because lindsay has to pee so she's on the side of the
road somewhere we're just on the side of a road a dirt road in the forest that's what it looks like
so we'll be here for a few minutes
it's very hot out there i'm glad our car has air conditioning
but i feel better now we can get back on the road there's not a lot
of bathrooms so there's a lot of nature you can use as your bathroom i guess
we're getting closer where we're going today is peninsula we are staying in a pusada this
is our first fusada yet in brazil and these places are kind of like a mix of like hostels
hotels or something like there's like a bed at breakfast bed and breakfast maybe yeah so
groups of people there other people to meet possibly it usually comes with free breakfast
so it's a little different than what we usually do which is staying in airbnbs by ourselves staying
in our own places sometimes hotels so it'll be cool to experience a busana yeah we've been
seeing them everywhere we just haven't had the chance to stay yet so i figured we better do that
okay we made it we are about to go to the beach
probably saying that wrong so we're gonna go to our prusada
but we ended up just getting here first so we're probably gonna spend the day at the beach
before we go to our posada this is supposed to be one of the most beautiful beaches in the region
and there's some cool beach bars so we're gonna grab a bite to eat and check out the beach
feels good to finally be here after that long drive and luckily there's
free parking that's something we're gonna have to consider now is parking spaces
when we arrive to a new town which isn't always the easiest but we got lucky here
so we just came to a quick little place to grab lunch so the places on the beach were
very very expensive there was even a minimum at the place that we wanted to stop uh 200 rail so
that's about 40 dollars minimum so that's a bit much for us so we're gonna get something
less expensive at this place which is a little bit off of the beach this is a dollar fifty for
this thing of fresh squeezed mango juice wow they're pressed i don't know how they do it
like mango juice is always thick like that if they do it right let's give it a try
tastes like you're eating a mango but in liquid form okay
we're starting out with tapioca i got a frengo quejo which is chicken and cheese
so again the tapioca it's made with tapioca flour and it kind of congregates together
to make like a tortilla in a way really big in brazil never seen it anywhere else in the world
these things are awesome probably my new favorite food in brazil is these tapiocas
is
we just finished up with our lunch and now we have an acai that we just got from this
really cool beach shop look at this bike all the purple colors the flowers it's pretty tropical
it screams brazil now we need to find a spot on the beach to sit coconuts seven not the cheapest
another beautiful day at the beach we never get sick of this these brazilian beaches are
really paradise we keep saying that but it's like every new beach we get to again it's just
palm tree lined great color of water warm water nice sandy beaches and just yeah i don't know how
you beat that so we're gonna walk along this beach a little bit and see what we can find we usually
look for less people at least for where we put our stuff and hang out we'll see if we can find that
it looks like the thing to do here is snorkel everyone seems to be snorkeling over there
you can only see about a fourth of that palm looks like he got buried there's
buried palm trees all over this beach so we're going pretty far down i think
it's going to be worth it there are less and less people with every step
and it looks like there are a couple people over this way walking but besides that it'll be just us
so we've been driving through these roads to get to vera grande from the beach and
it's all sand we've almost gotten stuck multiple times i in fact did get stuck once
and the local had to help push us out we got lucky and it took about a minute and i got out
but still a little scary we're almost there bump oh made it all right there's our place
let's go check out our first pizada
so far it looks really nice
nice colors and it is dark right now so let's open this up
we purposely booked one with a balcony oh let's see the view
not bad
cute quaint
bed not too bad it was at the same pillows as our other airbnb see what this is like
oh it's pretty big wow we have a couple chairs out here get some work done
that's our kitchen over there it's free parking it seems like you could park wherever you want so
we're parked right up front just on the dirt road now for the fun part bathroom tour
all right standard sink green mirror sliding open door shower and a toilet
it's all we need well the basics we are paying 24 a night for this place without breakfast but
you can buy breakfast and it's not that expensive so we're gonna try that out tomorrow most likely
this might be one of the craziest sunset skies i've ever seen the whole sky is just illuminated
we're gonna take a drone up to show you guys hopefully it captures it
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