Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane...

dum dum bum-bummmm

Thank you Elton John.


So this is my last post (from Brazil at least) of Daniel Katz in Rio de Janeiro. I got back from about 3.5 weeks of traveling around Brazil last night, and am tying up loose ends before my 6:55pm flight back to the land of (mostly) drinkable water. Thank you so much, Brazil, for giving me a stomach ache to take home with me as a souvenir.

I'm not really sure what to say - it's not like I can sum up my experiences of the past 6.5 months in a sentence or a paragraph or an essay. In fact, even if I tried to do just that, I think it would completely bely the experiences I've had. I don't think I'll be able to truly appreciate the things I've been through - both internally and externally - until I've had at least a few months back in the (my) "real world" to understand things in context.

Thanks so much, Brazil (for real this time), for giving me a new, different-shaped mirror with which to begin seeing and understanding myself in new ways.

And now I'm going to go eat a whole LOT of Açaí and hope it fixes my stomach.