Spring in New York

I'd like to finish posting pics of my trip to the Amazon so I can (perhaps) utilize this site for additional purposes. Thus, another push with (hopefully) the last (almost) set of photos. Enjoy!

We hung our hammocks in and outside the Forest Family House.

Learning to make baskets out of Palm tree fibers we collected in the jungle.

This is where the women washed clothes. We used this dock to "swim" from. I put that in quotations because we weren't really allowed to swim, it was considered too dangerous to go more than a few yards from the shore.

This was the main dock we got to jump in the water from. It's getting dark now.

The computer lab where I spent a lot of my time writing manuals for open source software on an open source operating system, in Portuguese, which I don't speak!

More pictures

It's been over 4 months and I'm still adding pictures...this experience will no doubt last a lifetime! These are from a local community that we visited one day.

Back to Tumbira where we lived for three weeks.

Three Months Later...

OK guys, you've been asking for pictures, so better late than never! Here are a few. I'm still in touch with everyone that I was in the Amazon with, and despite some difficulties I had there, I do miss the place. As many of you know, Google went to Tumbira shortly after I left and has now visually documented it with their "google cam" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/google-takes-street-view-to-amazon/2011/10/13/gIQAzSPptL_story.html).

I expect the area to be a number-one tourist spot for gringos in the next few years.

Waking up to the last day...

.... we left at 7 am.

Goodbye birds.

Goodbye river.

The wake from our boat as we leave.