Heading north along the coast

I woke up early again. I felt rather good, and I am glad I was not feeling the pain of such a good time. I was the first hotel guest in for breakfast, and I had a long breakfast reading my book by David Sedaris. I took my coffee out to the pool and read some more. I packed as did we all, and we were off to Maresaias again. We went to Danny and Adolfo's compound. She and some of her family members were up and about. Karin took off soon after because she needed to get back to Sao Paulo earlier than later.

Josh and I hung out and played some back gammon, of course. It was nice to have a chance to just chill out in a still place. It was raining a bit, and we didn't really need to get out into it yet. Danny was so sweet and she made us some spaghetti and meat sauce along with a salad. She was making food for everyone there, but it was great that she included us. What a woman! We got going not too soon after the meal.

We headed to the bus stop to wait for the bus heading north along the coast. We had to take a few buses to make it all the way to Paraty, pronounced Para-Chee. We sat under cover and played gammon and had a beer. We got to Uba Tuba by 8:40 or so. The buses were taking longer than we anticipated. We thought we had missed the last bus to Paraty, but there was another bus company around the corner that was leaving around 10 or so. We bought our tickets and walked down the street for dinner and gammon. The bus got us to Paraty in what seemed like no time, either because I slept or because I had been having an out of body experience. Oh, wait, I think I was asleep.

We stumbled around town until we ran into a hostel. Checked in and were offered a shot of rum by the hostel owner. O.k! Welcome to Paraty! We walked around the street looking for some samba street party. What we found was coming to a close so we walked to the old historic center of town and then back to the hostel. Sleep was eminent.