Motorcycles? Mountains? Where are you people? Well, we are not in Brazil at the moment! We are in the USA for a bit. One of our sons is an avid adventure motorcycle rider. My husband has enjoyed trips with him on some of our past trips and even purchased an adventure ride of his own recently. So this week we headed of to SW Virginia to ride a little and camp a little. Our rides We spent three days riding country backroads in SW Virginia and parts of North Carolina. We camped in two wild spots in the Jefferson National Forest. One was along a beautiful mountain stream and the other on the side of a mountain. We ate great lunches in cute regional restaurants. One saved us from a downpour as we enjoyed a leisurely Tex-Mex meal and lots of sweet tea. We visited the Museum of Appalachia in Saltville, Virginia and the Wolf Creek Indian Museum and Village near Bastian, Virginia. This was my first time motorcycle camping an...

Toca da Barriguda Cave

My husband and I live in the little interior town of Sobradinho - Bahia. To be quite honest there isn't a whole lot to speak of when it comes to tourism. There's the giant electric dam and its resulting great big reservoir which is supposedly the biggest in Latin America. There's a place way down a dirt road with some cave drawings on a few rocks where if there is a good rainy season you can enjoy a small waterfall. And there are lots of goats and sheep. Fazenda Campo Verde But not too far from us is the town of Campo Formoso which is full of caves and interesting rock formations. Many of the caves are poorly marked and hardly explored. Websites tell you that it's best to hire a guide. That's very true. You'll need one just to figure out where to turn off the road because of the lack of signs. I think there used to be nice signs, but the local guides took them down to help the industry - their industry. I could be enti...

São Gonçalo da Serra - Petroglyphs

This week we visited a place of which we had heard. It's located less than 20 miles from where we live. We came upon several places with these little red flowers on top of rocks. Beauty can be found anywhere if you look well. There is a sign on the highway indicating where to turn in for the community of São Gonçalo, but after you enter, there are numerous forks in the dirt road, and no more signs. Best advice: Just stop at a house that looks occupied, watch out for dogs, and ask for the cave drawings. We hiked through the entire mountain pass where a good sized stream must have run at some time in ancient history, and did not spot the petroglyphs. There happened to be a small number of people hunting for a local rodent called "mocó." They were having quite the "covid party" back in the woods cooking up their tasty prizes on a spit far from any supervision. I...

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