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For the Amazon By sea and Soul: Part 2

Day Eleven

Transcending the boundary between the turbid waters of Amazonas and Rio de la "Clara Tapajos, the clear blue below, in the early morning skies, the Princess Royal was docked in the port terminal Docas do Pará in Santarem in 0846 in one of two degrees, 24 minutes north latitude and 54 degrees-44 minutes west longitude position amid the myriad river boats, against a cause-north line of zero degree.

Brown water, such as the Amazon, the flow on sedimentary rocks and carry large quantities sediments with them, while so-called black waters, such as the Tapajós River itself, the flow of crystalline rocks and drain forested areas. Owing to different densities, temperatures and acidity, mixing is resisted by many miles and only as a last resort, induced by turbulence.

Founded in 1661, Santarem, located almost midway between the two main Amazonian cities of Manaus and Belem in the Amazon river crossing and 15 miles wide Tapajos River basin is the third largest metropolis with a population of 265,000 and serves as a gateway to your deepest heart.

In 1927, Henry Ford had obtained 43,000 miles square of rainforest, cleared 50,000 hectares of it, and planted three million rubber trees, the construction of a city called "Fordlandia" to facilitate and serve the mass planting, but the range of 17-year, $ 20 million costs had only resulted in failure and who had resold the land to Brazil the paltry sum of $ 250,000.

town of Santarem, echoing the Yukon in the late 1800s, exploded one day in 1958 the discovery of a vein of gold in Itaituba, 60 miles on the road the Tapajós River, which acts as a gateway to thousands of seekers who traveled by the two air streams y.

Eleven years later, in 1969, the completion of a road to Cuiaba connected the city with the motorway network in Brazil for the first time, although the river still serves as its main artery. Small boats arrive at dawn to sell freshly caught catfish, piranhas and picaruru, among other types, while the boats assume the roles of floating buses for transport between the Amazonian peoples throughout the day and night, nourished by the floating gas stations.

Santarém is a leading manufacturer of hammocks that offer many advantages over mattresses: they are cool, cheap and portable, even for use in traveling from one day to another ship, mattresses while they are hot and easily mold.

The nearby farm cassava, located on the road to Chao Alter and operated by farm families is a series of straw huts of indigenous fruits shows, applications of medicinal plants, extraction of rubber trees and cassava flour production.

Cutting the outer bark of the rubber tree produces a red wound as if it is bleeding, and this gradually coagulates in white, rubber latex, which is then extracted.

manioc flour, a nutritious staple of the Amazon basin, is processed by a human-powered saw that Short poisonous cassava root. This is then pulled from its soil liquid in the form of meal, and toast, before being loaded into bags for transport to market. The operation takes place entirely outdoors, in a crude, thatched roof.

When the sun, even in the skies of the cake, had bowed to the west in 1700, life in Amazon port of Santarem, had begun to relax: the tri-deck riverboat open on one side, the means of connectivity between civilization pockets lining it, had long left their daily schedules, while a truck, backed into a well below the imposing Royal Princess cruise ship had accepted the transfer of products. The tracts of vegetation that leads to the city has taken in the horizontal velvet greens highlighted, while the river Tapajós shone a silver mirror. The river had been the source of life for Amazonian communities, "the same way that I had followed for so- very small, the portion of two days on the river cruise.

I look back on this brief interval. River banks were used to define the ship's route, dimensional constraints had left little option, if it had wished to reach your destination safely. However, it had defined my way, and what fate is?

Dusk touched the sky an orange watercolor over the Amazon jungle in the west, which was developed in the veins of blue still unclear and intensified in a blaze refractionary, which makes silver and sculptures scattered gray clouds, and the Amazon a dark, quiet and metallic surface. The surface once again provide the buoyancy of the ship and move across the darkness, while Amazonian people use it to save their lives when the sun had again reappeared the following day.

An excellent dinner in the restaurant that night Club had offered white zinfandel wine feuillette eggplant with roasted garlic and goat cheese velouté, barley cream soup with smoked hocks, turkey escalope in Roquefort cream sauce served with pumpkin sauce with spices and red bliss potatoes, Austrian Sacher cake cream ice coffee latte and coffee.

Having slipped its moorings in 1827, Princess Real Now knit a 280-degree west direction and an easy pace, 12-knot in 2200. To navigate the Amazon River, whose ship-lit coffee hue appeared as solid snow on your helmet slalom gradually closed the gap between Santarem and Boca da Valeria.

Day Twelve

A thin orange stripe crossed the eastern horizon in 0540, entering the day undulating silver formations stretching to the tropopause as the hills of higher elevation, announcing another saturated humid in the Amazon. Continuing with wood to ten knots, the ship pursued a 243-degree heading.

Anchored in the silver morning in 0723 with six chains, the Princess Royal stopped the movement in one of two degrees, 27 minutes north latitude and 56 degrees 27 minutes west longitude coordinates.

On the extension of the seizure of the vessel hydraulically operated ramp bidding on Deck 3, several small wooden canoes just large enough to support to the families of the village and children and so immersed in the mud of the Amazon that the water level has been paralleled by their sides and had to be continually picked back up rowed giant shirt look, gawk and touch the "civilization", a lifestyle unknown to them and therefore something like an alien visitor from the land. Although the ship's passengers eagerly anticipated a sample of the local lifestyle, this first meeting indicated that they consider the experience every bit of reciprocity and, if it were not for benign curiosity, they themselves could have been interpreted as "invaders."

Located at the confluence the Amazon and Rio da Valeria rivers, Boca da Valeria, translated as "mouth of the river Valeria" is representative of the thousands of small communities, isolated in the Amazon basin, where basic, almost primitive "Riberinhos you" or "live by the river," live from the river and the rainforest a dozen houses, supported by wooden piles, its 75 residents attend one school and the church and participation in a communal farm and produce manioc field. One can, by any measure, be regarded as the Brazilian "real."

Covering the short distance of the Royal Princess of the coast in the middle of primordial waters, pink dolphins, my tender penetrated thick, swampy, molasses with dual lower pontoons, eluding two riverboats before approaching the wooden houses and huts on stilts supported straw Boca da Valeria checking the "pocket of humanity", which also could have been considered a pocket "(stopped) time." For the river dwellers, this was "home." He had been everything he had known. We had brought our preconceived "ideas" the house, which was all that was known. Nor was the same, or even remotely close. Perhaps he would find some elements of overlap between two during my visit.

As we landed on the small wooden pier, floating, yes a little over a floating boat, heard the words: "Welcome to the jungle! "-the latter and only in English, the presentation in the dirt road that had led the crowd of villagers and indigenous children, and quickly realized that we had shared the same desire to know and experience different lifestyles of others. That was in the process, served as a "bridge" between my world and theirs.

The dirt road leading past the line of posts thatched roof, what could be the market of the village and showed premises, handmade crafts, an economic activity aimed primarily at tourists on the communal village. The business process of buying, selling, and profiting was completely new to them.

Stucco "Escola Municipal de San Francisco" or "San Francisco City College, with an outside of yellow and blue shuttered windows and no glass timber, there is a spartan interior of chairs and desks, a globe, and a blackboard, from which he had hung a banner with mathematical examples divided into the four functions, such as "ADICAE" or "further", and "Multiplicaco" or "propagation", among others. The one-room school had clearly served as the core of the community, or heart, and channel knowledge, and pride of learning and high grades had been equally shared here and demonstrated by the task and the pictures hanging on the back wall, human emotions covering the distance of my home town in the United States in this small village in the Amazon.

Followed and surrounded by a crowd of children as I inspected the classroom and took notes feverishly, I felt his interest and curiosity, but not in my interest or activity, but in the gifts he had brought perceived by them and carried in the bag hanging from my hand. That all, as tourists, which could carry objects unknown to them from the modern world in this puncture of the primeval forest intensified their curiosity, but were simply curious and wanted to know if I had brought nothing to them had been different when I, as a small child, had spied on a bag was taken to visit a relative and we hope that asked, "Do you have something there for me?

The people only "street" stood before me, a rocky road, land full of a bunch of wooden structures on stilts sustained considered "houses" each with a miniature boat as he had known my boat for fishing and short sea, surrounded by brown water behind them. Were clearly the idea of the village of "a car in every garage," although these "Cars" was the needs of your lifestyle.

One of the local women invite me to his house. door locks and police stations had been replaced by the confidence that here, or perhaps the reverse order was in my society. Greed and materialism may well have increased significantly the amenities of life, but these "primitive" have retained their strengths and what Therefore, connections with God, whose performance appears to obviate the need for these luxuries unless and until it was faced with temptation. Unfortunately, we as tourists, represented that.

The house, visited by three crude, wooden planks serving as steps and is subdivided into three rooms, had reeked of scarcity: an kitchen with little more than a table, a living room with a single seat, and a bedroom only identifiable as such by their hammocks hung from the wall, but a piece of civilization modern, which seems extremely out of place, my eyes and ears assaulted and undo what had become my mental picture of life here: a great, albeit very obsolete, the black-white television. For the world I had come, which could have served as a welcomed sight, but it only served to spoil. I had traveled here to learn and experience what was "new", not to see what I already knew, and I had lit my eyes quickly.

The house across the street "," wore a hammock suspended between two piles under what obviously was his plant principal and one of them had been tied to a pig, which could have been the family pet or dinner, while steam rose from a poor stove supported on the balcony behind him.

A path perpendicular, they were obliged to produce the village communal farm field and cassava, the two main sources livelihood other than the river itself. The road and disappeared into the rainforest.

The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest surrounded by the Guiana Highlands in the north, the Brazilian central plateau in the south, the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the Cordillera de los Andes in the west, was the people "Backyard" and occupies the basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries, covering four million square kilometers in nine countries: Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. It covers 40 percent of Brazil alone. Its existence is the result of high temperatures stable, humidity and precipitation.

The tropical rainforest, spanning more than two-thirds of the Amazon basin, is an extension of the dry forests and savannas in the north and the south and western montane forest in the Andes. Its dense vegetation, forming multi-level deck space prevent all but ten percent of the sun's rays reach the ground and extending upward from 150 feet, more support plant life between these levels in the same land. His extensive flora, averaging more than 250 species Typical trees per acre, including rosewood, mahogany, rubber tree and chestnut.

Several million species of insects, birds and other forms of life, many still unrecorded by science, including alligators, anacondas, boas, manatees, river dolphins, piranhas, electric eels, catfish, and the world's largest freshwater turtle, the Ranger 150-pound yellow head, whose sole habitat is Madagascar. continental mammals including the jaguar, tapir, the lazy, red deer and monkeys.

Of the 16 million people living in the basin, more than half live in rural settlements, such as Boca da Valeria, lining the river that provides the vital link for food, water, soil for planting, and transportation.

When you reach the end of the main artery people who had been covered with grass and sported a considerable pile structure, I realized that my time warp time and culture had been shattered suddenly like a car without driving problems had suddenly hit a brick wall when the light had revealed that the water appears brown known as the "Amazon" support for high-rise balcony-lined metropolis named Princess Royal. The bits had referred more to my emotions than anything else, my early feelings of loneliness, innocence, simplicity and lack of materiality to which attach my broken soul by the ease of glass. This floating city, scant few hours, take me far, far from both geographical location and emotional simplicity, the latter of which somehow promotes spirituality, and I return to the physical comfort and fullness, where all my desires, needs and desires are fulfilled immediately. I looked down and felt overwhelming shame and disappointment myself.

A villager, attending to his ship, invited me to his house where I had met his wife later. large and steep stairs, wood was to an outdoor balcony equally great. His "inside" is divided into two rooms: the kitchen and bedroom.

Communication with his wife in Spanish, answered in Portuguese, he had learned that the kitchen, well stocked decidedly more of the houses visited another village center, picnic tablecloth covered a wide variety of hanging pots and pans, and an outdated, yet still working, stove lighted match had been the location of the little kitchen, with most of what has been done outdoors because of the heat inside the wooden structure, despite the fact that all windows had no glass.

The bedroom considerably in size, receiving fresh breezes cross ventilation at night from the river for their diametrically opposite window and door (None of which had a glass panel or real, the hinged panel that covers them), there is a bed at home almost two and a hammock. But what seemed most important and somewhat out of place in this primitive village where reading does not seem to belong to the list of activities necessary for survival such as fishing, planting and eating, had been the bookshelf.

"Wow, seeing all these books!" I had cried the villager in Spanish. "Why do they have?" I she wished to know.

"I am the village school master", was back in Portuguese, pointing to the school house down the road, and some so it seemed fair that a person of such importance, who had served as a key model would have one of the larger houses. This man was the village leader and liaison to enlightenment.

We have spent considerable time reviewing the books of lessons, each applicable to different degrees and printed in Portuguese, and divided into subjects such as reading, math and language. There was even a chapter of Spanish vocabulary.

During the afternoon, return to standing on the rock and earth dyed red tender to the pier, which was somewhat surprising to discover that the cruise ship, which should be clearly visible from this point view, had disappeared, not because I was unconscious or psychologically destroyed in my mind in my quest to complete my original vision of reality, but due to flash-flooding characteristic of the Amazon had made visibility, and all its contents, the absence, and the floor had been transformed into a series of lakes vary in size.

Pull away from the town supply, once I stopped thinking about the high proportion of children to adults, children, whether they belonged to this village or anywhere else in the world, had been the hope of the future, but through experience, had held hands instantly looking for gifts and money from me and all the other passengers alike, as if the cruise ship had been a regular, multi-annual Santa Claus visit.

As people, the inhabitants of the river had shared the same fundamental qualities and characteristics that the rest of us: identity, personality, talent, expected contribution to the world, the hopes, dreams and the ultimate achievement of leaving footprints in the mud when they had reached the end of their life trajectories. The village had provided raw, primitive wooden structures called houses where their families had bonded, commercial ideas, common foods to sustain the river and land, a home school to learn, share, grow and advance, a church to reconnect with and worship their superior authorities and role models parent, teacher and priest to lead, inspire and emulate, fully demonstrating that despite geographic differentiation and the differences in lifestyles, we had all originated from the same source.

However, I continued to focus on the extended hands and could not help but wonder if we, as tourists freely given and freely taught to expect, somehow had begun to corrupt and plunder their original, pristine, innocent, non-materialistic pocket the time. But somehow I knew we had ...

The teacher had given me a tip town larger than a week, if not monthly, salary Boca da Valeria, if in fact there has been some non-wages, but justified it as an investment in education.

Somewhere down the line, when the conversion process to modernity and materialism was irreversible, it would have to find a new Boca da Valeria. When traveling there, I would learn it and profit from it. When traveling there, I too would once again be partly responsible for the inevitable change.

As Princess Royal slowly retracted his tender boarding ramp hydraulically powered on Deck 3, the views of the people and "will riberinhos" progressively decreased in size until the heavy iron panel slammed decided!

I hope you never lose what I currently teach, I thought ...

The barbecue lunch served outside in the pool for the evening had included a cheeseburger, salad German potatoes, fresh fruit, blueberries and cake.

Shrink your offer and staggering in its anchor, the Princess Royal in 1400 turned to starboard an initial 020-degree below the blue line illustrious and white cumulus clouds rolling hills, parallel to the southern shore of dark green and red rust of the Amazon River and from the wood stilts housing support behind Boca da Valeria, geographic location frozen in time. Not a human soul, adult or child, can be seen, somehow people suddenly deserted and desolate, as if the ship's passengers were infused with life and had carried him back after his brief pause there.

Almost silently slip into a fire to six knots, the vessel entered the state of Amazonas in short Parintins sector.

Move on the pre-sunset shining silver water surface in a barely perceptible crawl in 1625, the ship anchored off the Isle of Tupinambarana, the location of Parintins, through its attached and river boats, marked by two prominent church towers.

Had eaten dinner at the steakhouse bill that night, a specialty instead of just dinner reservations on the starboard side of the cover 10, which had offered rich, dark wood paneling and a bar, and included merlot wine, a salad grilled with artichokes, asparagus, roasted bell peppers, avocado, shaved Parmesan cheese and balsamic grape dress, a Mediterranean lobster pie foam tarragon, olives and grilled asparagus, filet mignon, baked potato with sour cream and chives, cream of spinach and sauteed mushrooms, a seven-layer s'mors chocolate cake with strawberries, marshmallows and chocolate sauce and coffee.

The Princess Royal Parintins remained anchored off during overnight.

Day Thirteen

The sky had woven a loose blanket of roses, whites, grays and silvers in 0600.

Parintins, lurking outside the ship starboard, had been placed in Tupinambarana Island and was founded in 1793 during the colonial expansion of the Amazon.

Tupinambarana The island itself is part of the world's largest river island group that was created when the river had deposited rocks, silt and sediment from upland the Andes. Today, the island chain 200 miles long is abundant with beaches, forests and banana plantations.

Known by the Boi Bumba, second festival Brazil's most important folk carnival after Rio de Janeiro, the city receives 35 thousand in the stadium Bumbodromo bull-shaped head when the annual event held in late June, attempts to retell the African-and European history with an edible roots workers who robbed and murdered by a farmer in order to satisfy the cravings of his pregnant wife beef tongue, but later come back to life by John the Baptist.

Two teams, or guarantor, and blue or capricious, an attempt to red to retell the story in the most extravagant costumes, dances, songs, elaborately decorated floats and fireworks, and a secret panel of judges selected the winner chooses. Support Team is indicated by the red or blue clothing of the person on the street, and even the color of the can of Coca Cola. Parintins is the only place in the world authorized to bottle Coca Cola in blue and red cans.

predominant means of city transport are the riverboats and the tricycle.

A delicious lunch buffet served in the Panorama, was included pork scallops, cheese and spinach cannelloni ricotta sauce cheese, Mediterranean vegetables and fresh fruit.

White Cloud tendrils, twisted into the sky over the Amazon jungle, had issued a light rain sharp in the warm, moist air throughout the morning afternoon, but a threatening, dark gray cover itself had become stretched across the river in 1300, which prevents any sunlight reaches the ground.

The transition from stationary, anchored sailing vessel had been an almost imperceptible because its location at night, half of the river, without spring of decline had been visible with which to provide reference. Instead, their engines, inaudible, had projected forward on the silver surface of the river in one of five knots slide down a 243-degree heading 1340 until the waves had been deployed from their sides, she began her final sector to Manaus.

Mixed emotions were inevitably washed over me. The cruise, when combined with the above and many travel by land, road and rail and air, had formed sub-sections of my life's journey. During the present, who had sailed across the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Amazon, had connected North and South American continents had explored San Bathelemy, St. Lucia, Barbados, Devil's Island in French Guiana, and four ports of call along the Amazon in Brazil, I had significantly enriched culturally, had learned much, had numerous unforgettable unique in a lifetime of experience, had met many, different people, I had enjoyed, had broadened my horizons, and had come back to me examined and purpose of my life as a result of it. Overall, the experience has provided material for a series of travel-related records and articles.

The positive emotions in the shipping industry had been seen likely to be many and all-encompassing. However, a degree of sadness, coinciding with the contemplation of the termination of my journey, equally had leaked through. Further examination of this sadness indicated that his heart had been empty a gap not yet filled.

When you disembark from the ship for the final time, the many satisfactions that clearly would have provided, thus inducing sorrow to you, and emptiness can not be filled by it. However, I wonder if that gap is in some way to alert me to the fact that I could have had even more for the trip, while I had made, perhaps reducing the "incomplete" without effect.

The void does not appear revolving round opportunities presented, but you took no. each person's earthly time is limited and every moment that ticks and is not used for anyone who values is lost forever and can not be recovered. The time dimension of physical existence, is always a reason, and can not be saved in a bank account for withdrawal later with interest. When it runs for each of us, that exhaustion is forever.

They threw the rain, the Princess Royal negotiated the, velvet green islands and patches of land in the Amazon, which modifies the course to avoid, however, continued to move toward the dark the horizon, draping, steel wool chapters ahead.

When I leave this journey, I hope that I have used their time and opportunity to the fullest in order to be fully met for her. When I leave my life's journey, I hope you will have used their time and opportunity to the fullest in order to be completely fulfilled by it.

The realization is the first step toward the amendment.

The dinner that night, served in the restaurant of the Club, had included the white zinfandel wine, a tian of crab, oysters and shrimp, with a duo of caviar and papaya coulis, squash and pear soup William covered with poppy seeds, endive, Boston lettuce, and cherry tomatoes with blue cheese, rock fish on the potato and leek vichyssoise cream with truffle oil, an ice cream cone ice cream, petit fours and coffee.

Rayas orange, penetrated the gray streaks on the western horizon shortly after 1800, as the Royal Princess, once again, broke into the sunset.

Day Fourteen

Crawling through the blue waters of the Black River in a speed of seven knots under blue light, morning skies stamped with tufts of white clouds, the Princess Royal is a 217-degree heading 0830, and four miles southeast of Manaus, Amazonas state capital and its last port of call.

Thinking about the end of a cruise, or pleasant, rewarding journey, inevitably turned to sadness. During the passage of two weeks, which had begun in the state of Florida, in the North American continent, and ended in the state of Amazonas, in the South American continent, the ship had been my home away from home and had become a new, albeit temporary, way of life for me, with a routine daily activities, daily, restaurants, nightly entertainment, interesting places to appear in front of my "door" and both crew and fellow passengers who had started known and with whom he had begun to bond as had been assumed in fact all the necessary elements of a floating city, and had not been easy to get out of this chapter, and its players, behind, never will be reread.

People, more than any other element, had provided the power base for all the spirits with whom I had bonded as a collective whole, and walk from them now was the equivalent of breaking this whole; to leave the newly created, expanded and covers a greater part behind me, and once again reduce myself to a single individual, all of which left a tremendous void. Is not this the feeling, though at a far greater scale, he had had when I was separated from all earlier in the first place and down to earth?

Breakfast served in the Panorama Buffet had included considerable pink grapefruit, scrambled eggs with asparagus, grilled tomatoes, grits cream cheese, croissants and muffins and cranberry juice with lemon.

The electric arc in a right turn, the ship approached the skyscrapers significantly the size of the monolithic architecture of man is not seen for over a week in 0915, as a plane accidentally stored in a right turn for their approximation Manaus final, which served as a point of convergence is known as civilization. Laterally starboard maneuver in his bunk in one of three grades, 08-minutes south latitude, below the equator, the South and 60 degrees, 01-minutes west longitude coordinate himself with appendices, 20 minutes later, the dock for his ramp access where the noise of the city attacked the ears like sharp arrows, an unwanted intrusions, almost unknown after the last interval primitive peoples lining the Amazon. I was hungry and to return them.

The evolution of an Indian village centered on the city of Sao Jose da Barra fortress built in 1669 to protect of the Dutch invaders Suriname today, Manaus, whose first name was "San José de la Barra Black River," is 993 miles west of Belem and 475 miles west of Santarem on the Black River and is the capital of Amazonas state, with a population of 1.8 million euros.

The Black River, the largest tributary Amazon, has a fifth of its total discharge with 292,000 miles square basin. Its darker, warmer water free of sediment laden waters meet sediments of the Amazon in Manaus, resulting in a blue-brown clear boundary between the two that did not begin to disappear until he reached a point several kilometers waters below.

Expanding from a village in 1832 to a small town in 1856, the city was renamed in Manaus most important conclusion of the group in the region ethnic, indigenous mine, became the first to enjoy electricity, storm drainage, water treatment, sewage system and a tram service electric. Characterized by its European skyline sprouting from the middle of the jungle, which had been largely formed by the rubber boom whose wealth has unleashed a 20 years, influenced European architect, between 1890 and 1910.

The rubber boom itself, controlled by about 100 candles rubber barons, recruitment and employment of the two Brazilian cities and tribes, and plantations, producing 90 percent of rubber in the world, scored large sums of money from the ostentatious wealth that facilitated construction. Nirvana quarter century, however, ended when Malaysia began to usurp the monopoly of Brazil as a result of the 70,000 tree seed rubber, which had been smuggled out of the country by Henry A. English Wickham then germinated in Kew Gardens in England before forwarding to the Far East.

One the opulent era buildings rubber boom, the Teatro Amazonas, remains today. Opened on December 31, 1896, during the administration of Filato Pires Ferreira in the business cycle peak of rubber, neo-classical opera, once performed by the likes of Enrico Caruso, 701 seats in the audience and boxes and sports a dome green, blue and yellow glazed pottery made of vitrified tiles and 36,000 Alsace. Its lobby of 300 people, supported by 16 columns rising from its soil marble, leads to the current theater whose audience of red velvet and tri-level boxes are flanked by smaller French cast columns, Corinthian columns above style, 22 Greek-style masks, crystal chandeliers and a ceiling painted to resemble the base of the Eiffel Tower.

The upstairs Noble Hall, which has a capacity of 200, has a plant of 12,000 interlocking, unadhesived walnut, oak, maple, and mahogany pieces, 16 cast iron columns, 32 chandeliers Murano glass and a roof with a painting by Domenico de los Angeles titled "The Glorification of Fine Arts in the Amazon."

The decrease rubber boom led to a drop until 1967, Manaus, when it was declared a duty free zone, and is now the largest commercial and industrial Ecuador whose 80,000 employees produce a wide range of electronic products. The city is the site of the largest factory in South America motorcycle.

A elegent, cruise proper afternoon tea-ending, served in the restaurant of the Club of the Princess Royal in 1600, had included the delicate smoked salmon, scones with clotted cream and jam, triangles of pumpkin and mocha cakes multilayer, and had taken two hours later for dinner Cabarnet cabernet landfall; shellfish vinaigrette over avocado with lime and cilantro, grilled vegetables with onions and hearts of romaine lettuce with bleu cheese dressing, fresh water barramundi in garam masala with fragrant rice, green beans and carrots, chocolate cake with ice cream rum raisin clay, and coffee.

Dusk set fire to the western horizon bright orange, providing a bright background canvas for the formations of clouds of gray smoke, the lower part is light pink with the sun's final moments on this side of the day.

Day Fifteen

As the bus crossed the Black River bridge extended from the vessel to passenger terminal the following, clear warm morning, I looked back at the Royal Princess, the "vehicle" that had allowed me navigate my way from origin to destination and had been already firmly tied to his, tight thick ropes for a final time and thought that no matter where you start the physical journey, but where and how it ends, the same statement could be said about the journey of life. Both have been infinitely enriched and, in the process, have grown infinitely.

Would I come back this way someday? Do I need?

About the Author

A graduate of Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus with a summa-cum-laude BA Degree in Comparative Languages and Journalism, I have subsequently earned the Continuing Community Education Teaching Certificate from the Nassau Association for Continuing Community Education (NACCE) at Molloy College, the Travel Career Development Certificate from the Institute of Certified Travel Agents (ICTA) at LIU, and the AAS Degree in Aerospace Technology at the State University of New York – College of Technology at Farmingdale. Having amassed almost three decades in the airline industry, I managed the New York-JFK and Washington-Dulles stations at Austrian Airlines, created the North American Station Training Program, served as an Aviation Advisor to Farmingdale State University of New York, and devised and taught the Airline Management Certificate Program at the Long Island Educational Opportunity Center. A freelance author, I have made some 350 lifetime trips by air, sea, rail, and road.

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