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I have only seen transparent jet bridges at Sao Paulo’s airport. Wednesday Night, April 23 I’m on my way home with an hour to kill here at Guarulhos airport. I flew to Sao Paulo this afternoon from Rio. I have the overnight flight to Dallas and then I continue to Philadelphia in the morning, landing…

First things first….. Mary Frances Stroud came into the world at 11:23pm on Saturday the 19th of April.  Mom and baby are doing fine. Is she cool, or what?  My first grandchild…. Other Brasil stuff… We are continuing the work getting Monica’s stuff ready for her interview on the 13th.  She has the required medical…

Greetings! I could post another few hundred words here whining about the state of this or that, complaining about bureaucracy or spouting some other unimportant stuff.  Not today. My oldest daughter, Melody  (she looks just a little different today), is in the hospital having her first child – my first grandchild. Details are here:          http://members.aol.com/celica00/maryfrances/…

Time for some more observations about Brasil. I’ve been here a few days and had some time to decompress a bit. We’ve been really busy with getting Monica’s stuff ready for her visa appointment next month. We still need to get that broomstick from the Wicked Witch of the West…… The US Embassy in Rio…

I’m back in Volta Redonda. It’s Monday. Monica’s at work and I have some time to write. Last night, we sorted through the mountain of paperwork that Monica will need for her visa appointment at the Consulate in Rio next month. She still has to get some vaccinations, get her medical exam (scheduled for the…

Wow! I just finished an entire weekend without work.  I didn’t go anywhere.  I took care of things around the house and rested up.  Tomorrow, I go back to work – I have four 12-hour days this week.  After my last one on Thursday, I’ll rush to the airport to take the 7:35 flight to…

Okay, I am finishing seven 12-hour work days in a row. Ick. It’s really been hard to get anything done. I am not as physically tired as I was earlier this week. I have plenty of things around the house that need attention this weekend. My blog, for example, has suffered while I was working…

   TV? I was talking with my daughter Melody last week.  She will be having a daughter (my first grandkid) in April.  She mentioned that she doesn’t have a TV in her new house.  “Everything on there is just junk, Dad”.  I don’t have a TV either.  I have the ability to get TV signals…

It’s Wednesday, and it seems that I’ve just been able to catch my breath today. It’s been a busy week. The trip home from Brasil was uneventful. The planes arrived and left on time, more or less. The six-hour layover in Miami on the way home was the usual boring wait. There was a little…

It’s Thursday, the day that I usually return when I take these one-week trips to my home in Brasil.  We have bus tickets to Rio and will depart just before four.  We bought the tickets yesterday because we were afraid that getting tickets on a holiday weekend might be difficult.  Before I owned a car,…