Friday the 27th will be my last day at work, marking 1 year and 9 months spent in Brazil and 6 months in Paris with this company. My first real job after a bunch of internships...
On the first week of March I'm leaving São Paulo to do something I've had on my mind for a while now: 4 months of backpacking across South America! Can't wait! Vague plan:
- March: Southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina
- April: Chile, Bolivia and Peru
- May: Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Rica
- June: either back to Brazil for Bahia and Rio de Janeiro states, or forget that and extend time spent in the other countries before coming back to São Paulo to pack up all my shit and go back to the real world and my family in Portugal.
Leaning more towards the latter at the moment, Bahia has (relatively) cheap flights from Portugal, and while I'd love to get to know RJ state, I've already been to the city itself 4 times and will be happy to come back at any other time in my life
omg omg omg. I'll be travelling alone too, which admittedly scares me a bit, but I think it'll do me some good too. It won't always be that way, I have friends in some of the places along the way, and there's couchsurfing and people at hostels and stuff. In 2010 I spent a month on the road in Mexico with a friend, but this looks like it'll be a bit more hardcore.
Funny story, one of my best friends had planned a 2 YEAR around-the-world trip starting in San Francisco, we were supposed to join up for the South American leg of journey trip but in May, not even 3 months into his trip, he fell in love with a girl in Mexico City and has since stayed there. lol.
so yeah excited yay