We tied up to a different jungle riverbank every night, and had lots of interaction with real Amazonians. Villages are small, and tightly knit. They seemed content. We didn’t hear any whiny kids.
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- She only knows her little village. The innocence of youth.
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- Learning Spanish, English and local dialect. These kids will be trilingual.
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- I love her defiance. She’ll be an Amazon woman.
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- These Amazon kids loved seeing their photo in the camera.
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- Boys playing in the river, barefoot. Parasitic infections are common here.
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- Life moves slowly here. They’re not interested in our frenetic pace.
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- A local craft store, accessible only by boat.
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- This little guy was peeking from behind his mama’s stitchwork.
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- Kids having a blast in the water. No iPad, no TV, just fun.
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- Hot and steamy jungle hike – it was 90 degrees and 90 percent humidity.
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- Our Amazon baptism, because we’re in a rainforest, after all.
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- Local artisans dye palm tree strands with vegetable dye.
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- Rubber used to be king in the Amazon, until it was transplanted to more easily accessible plantations. Now 90% of rubber comes from Asia.
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- Kayaking – we always made sure we got back to the boat before what I called, “bug thirty”.
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- Time for a new roof on the ol’ homestead. The community will work together to make it happen.
Fantastic