Brazil. I first traveled to Latin America in 1984. A Brazilian friend encouraged me to come, and to know Brazil, which he said, was rapidly changing and being developed, and soon would never be the same. "Geraldo Florsheim" met me in São Paulo, where I stayed for several weeks, and then boarded a westbound train through an area similar to the Florida "Everglades", called the "Pantanal", in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, and onward to Curumbá on the river Paraná, bordering Bolivia. I continued west to explore Bolivia and Peru. Some weeks later I returned to Brazil via Cuiba, one of the hottest cities in Brazil, then by bus to Brasilia, the new capital, built in the 1950's. The interior cities, were hot and dusty, with parched, red soil. Traveling to the northeast, "O Nordeste", by bus, enjoying the beautiful beaches at Recife, Natal and Forteleza, I then descended south to Salvador da Bahia, and explored Rio de Janeiro for my last few weeks. "On the rough" in South America, that first time in 1984, now realizing that it´s 2007, as I write, and I've chosen to return many times. Brazil is a fun, chaotic, diverse and colorful place to travel, to live and take to photos, Most of these were made with Kodachrome 64.
                               Photographs and text by John O'Heron  ©2007