The awesome power of gambiarra
Now that we’re on a daily schedule we seem to be getting a lot more done on the land even though we have so much meditation to do each day! …
Sleeping in the loft again
We’ve been sleeping on the fold-out couch for the last week while Beth put a few coats of paint in the loft to try and resolve the toxic off-gassing problems …
Back to the land after months away again!
We’ve been back at the land for about a week now after being away since halfway through December last year! We were in Brasília at Beth’s parents place for Christmas, …
2015 Mahamudra retreat
Beth and I have just returned from an extraordinary meditation retreat. This retreat was the forth of a seven part transmission on Mahāmudrā (natural being) with each part being in …
Collecting rain water
Beth bought some large diameter PVC pipe that we could chop in half and use as a gutter and was much cheaper than buying the proper material. Last week I …
A visitor who found us on gringoes.com
We got a contact message from the site a couple of days ago from an Australian women named Anna who came across our blog from this gringoes.com thread about our …
Our new panniers
We went to Canela yesterday to get some groceries and this time I took some photos of our side panniers. We cycled to Lava Pes and then left our bikes …
Getting to know the land again
After being away for so long we almost feel like strangers here! After lunch our local lizard Leelee turned up for a visit which made us feel a lot more …
Two weeks became three months!
I had my court hearing on October 6th which turned out to be nothing more than both Tiago and I agreeing that we both wanted the whole thing over and …
Eu sou quase um verdadeiro brasileiro!
The residency process became a lot easier on September 1st 2014, where now you can just get it all completed in one day after filling in this form, and making …