blowing through Brasil
so i managed to see brasil in a matter of hours, how cool, well, not really, as what i was able to see was the Belem and Sao Paulo airport. And as an excuse to not see brasil i used that katie eventually wants to go there, so I hope she's not yanking my chain, cause i'm gonna save the best parts for her.
I might a real nice polish kid on the plane to belem, he was studying at university in paris, and on holiday in guinea, heading off to sao paulo to visit some friends. He was a nice kid, and made for some great conversation on the flight. As it happens we were both flying from belem to sao paulo, so that atleast allowed us to continue the conversation until boarding our seperate planes.
The thing about belem that suprised me first and foremost is how many flights they have running out of there, the airport was huge, i almost think bigger than what i saw in sao paulo, and they were running flights non stop, my flight to sao paulo left at 02:25, and there were several flights leaving every hour, now belem is not a city I had heard of before, of course theres a lot of those, and these flighs were running everywhere.
Now just landing in belem, the first thing i needed to do was secure a ticket to either buenos aires or montevideo, so off to the TAM ticket counter to see what i could find, there was a line 10 deep with three tellers working, it was a mess, and after midnight at that. At the first window, i asked right off the bat if she spoke english, no she said, but pointed to the girl next to her, cool beans, just what i needed, so i waited for her to finish and conducted my business...as it happened there was a 225 flight to sao paulo, and an 830 flight to buenos aires....bingo, bookem chica...and i still had time for a cigarette and coffee before heading to the gate, as i was flying domestic it made it easy to not have to hit immigration before going to the gate, so as a reward, i had two cigarettes, yeah me!
to boot, it seemed to be my lucky day, the plane to sao paulo wasn't full, so i was able to have a window seat, all to my self, three seats to sprawl out over. as soon as that plane it the air, on the first ding, which was not the fasten sea belt sign, i unbuckled and spread out, and i'm pretty sure i slept and snored the entire way there...
Once i was in sao paulo it was another wait of about 2 hours, and of course not really knowing where i was going i just started mosying to wherever, actually i was looking for an exit so i inadvertently took the queue for domestic transfers. Once i realized i was on the wrong side of the airport, cause i could see through the glass divider to the international side and saw the monitors, i made my way back and of course was able to find an exit for a smoke before continuing on to immigration to head to buenos aires. In the airport there was a lot of things to buy, i settled on a carton of dunhills and was considering a pair of sandals but at 19 US they were a bit overpriced, i'm too used to my 5$ sandals in the philippines so nada on the sandals this time, besides its going to be cold the remainder of the places i'm visiting so its best to just keep the shoes on my feet.
Once on the plane i had the distinct misfortune to be sitting between pukenstein and the leaner. the guy sitting to my left slurped with every sip of whatever the hell he was drinking each time, then he would clear his nose by snorting his snot, and to top it all off every other sip of whatever the hell he was drinking, as he hit the stewardess button at least 3 times for something else to drink, he would rub his hands together and snort for the double whammy. And then of course cause he had so much shit to drink, and he wasn't drinking alcohol, he yaks 30 minutes before the plane lands, and doesn't go to the bathroom to clean himself off, so he's continuing to snort, breathe a little heavy and got shit stuck in his mustache...what a treat, he made the leaner seem like travelling with family, this guy just creeped into your personal space by leaning over to see what was on my seat video monitor...oh happy days
hopefully landing very soon in bueno's aires....
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