As you can seen by my recent posts, I've been traveling more and more supervising the church construction projects. And last week after the National MDA Conference, I was ready to get out of the chair and cover some ground.
Adding to my list of various forms of Amazonian transport, we caught a ferry to head across the river. A couple hours later, we hit the ground running, or riding, to arrive in the community of Baixão before dark. After getting all the plans laid out to start their construction project, we ate some dinner, conversed and relaxed a bit, and then jumped in our hammocks.At 3 AM the next morning we got up and headed off into the dark for our 50 km ride to catch the 5 AM ferry back to Santarém. The road was decent by Amazonian standards, but full of washboard style bumps. Once on the ferry, we noticed that the license plate was missing! No problem, easy fix right? Just get a new one. HAHA! TEN hours at the DETRAN (Brazilian Department of Motor Vehicles) and $60 later, I left with a new license plate.
If this next license plate falls off, it's gonna go with the whole back half of the bike!
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2 comments:
Love that you included the map showing where you went! We just got your newsletter in the mail and I almost didn't show it to Matt--if he started thinking about riding motorcycles on dirt roads with you & Joaquim he might be ready to scrap A&P training and just head down there now :) I can hardly wait to wait in line for hours at the Brazilian DMV-lots of time for evangelism I suppose!
-janelle
Thanks Janelle! We'd sure love to have one more along for the adventure! Hope all is going well you you guys! We're sure looking forward to having you here!
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