Week fifteen
This week started back in Canela with the starter motor dying for the third time! What happens is that the brush connections melt and need to be resoldered, but since …
Week fourteen
This weekend we were really starting to feel quite tired and grumpy so got less done than we were hoping. We got most of the insulation into the floor and …
Week thirteen
The main event this weekend was that we went for a long bike ride to test out the feasibility of being car-independent living at the land – and it turns …
Week twelve
This week there wasn’t much work to do as everyone was slowly winding back up after the Christmas break so we went back to the land on Wednesday to make …
Week eleven
This week we left for the land on Sunday and spent a whole week there until the following Sunday since there was no work needing to be done with New …
Week ten
The first thing I did this week was to test out my new Vivo router at the “rock office”, and it looks very promising for connectivity on the land! I …
Week nine
I’m at the pensão connected via my new Huawei B260a 2G/3G router today. The Vivo stores here in Canela and Gramado took over a month trying to get a router …
Week eight
This week started with an extremely hot sunny day followed by the most enormous lightning storm I’ve ever heard of during the night, I couldn’t understand how there could be …
Week seven
The first thing to do this week was to get our gambiarra fixed up by a real mechanic! Here’s a simple diagram of what would probably be the cheapest way …
Week six
We went to the land early Thursday afternoon even though the weather wasn’t the best, and spent Friday and the weekend building our bridge so we could get the trailer …