Internet Blues

Yesterday, I moved into an apartment that I rented in Barra da Lagoa. It´s a nice little place, clean, with secure off-street parking for this tiny little GM Celta I rented (well, it´s not the smallest car I´ve ever seen, but it has a itty bitty 1 liter engine...he he he).
Last night I went out with Marcus and his cousin Tatiana (visiting from Rio de Janiero right now), some good friends of Maria´s from way back. In order to go meet them, I had to make my first real attempt at navigating this place while actually driving - an interesting prospect since it was midnight before I left, and it was raining a bit.
However, persistence
has its rewards, and after a while I found them all, and had a pretty good rest of the night.
I think I crashed about 4 or 5 am, and got up at around 10. It was supposed to still be rainy here today, but when I looked outside I saw....sunshine. Blue skies. So. I threw on a t-shirt and my swim trunks and my Haviainas (basically, Brasilian flip-flops, very popular on the beach areas) and made my way out to the beach.
The beach here is mostly east-facing with a reverse j-hook at the southern end, and runs north to a point near the Rio Vermelho area, where this particular beach ends. It´s about 5 miles long from end to end. When I got out there, I started walking north. After a while, I ran. Then I walked some more. Then I ran some more. All the way out to the northern point, and back. round trip of roughly 8 miles, given where I actually started.

I have internet blues right now. My new place does not have wifi. Right now, I am in an internet cafe around the corner on a rent-by-the-minute desktop computer. Scary!

Tomorrow, I am heading north, on the mainland, to a place somewhere north of Camboriu where one of Maria´s aunts or uncles live. I don´t know exactly how long I will be gone, or if I will have internet access while there - so you might not hear form me for a little while. Don´t worry - I´ll be back.