Até logo, Brazil! And good riddance!

Today we leave Brazil.  Hopefully.  I mean, we're supposed to be on a plane tonight, but it's Brazil...what's ever gone as planned?

Right now we're still at the farm.  We spent the last 2 days here, actually staying right here on the farm campus itself.  It's not your typical farmyard.  There's no sprawling farmhouse since the owner doesn't live here.  Actually, he doesn't even live in this country, but even when he is here, he and even the managers live offsite at a town several hundred kilometers away.  This farm sports a couple big dorm-style buildings where many of the farm employees live.  There's a main cafeteria where they are served their meals (and based on our limited experience, the meals are pretty much the same things all the time: bologna sandwiches for breakfast--eww!--followed by beans and rice and spaghetti for lunch, and dinner usually has a little more variation, more beans and rice and some other main dish).  The rest of the barnyard is full of machinery and big sheds housing tools and spare parts.  The whole compound is surrounded by a tall chain link fence topped with razor wire.  There's a guard tower (literally!) at the entrance manned by security guards packing some major fire power and even ski masks at night.  It's a little creepy!  I guess they've had some problems with security in the past, hence why they're so well fortified now.

As Jonathan was finishing up the last installation here on a 3rd combine, I was looking into plane tickets for our next and last trip.  Next week we fly to Argentina for about eight days, and then we're done (how thrilled am I that our trip to Brazil was cancelled!).  It's actually kind of sad, thinking of being done with these adventures. But we're not done traveling yet!  After Argentina we're spending a week in Illinois tying up loose ends with Precision and visiting family!  After that we're spending a few days in Magdalena, Mexico!  So it's a totally different kind of traveling--yay for visiting people we love!

For now...we've set our sights for home and the Beach Cottage!  I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend our first anniversary!