Well last night was short, and today was long, and tonight will again be another short one. We started the day with breakfast at the hotel in Brasília, which was great due to the omelette station with in-house omeletteer, and then packed up and checked out at noon and started our 3 hour drive to Goiânia.
Saying goodbye to the view from last night.
The drive was fine, we stopped halfway for a lunch at what seemed to be the equivalent of a truck stop but with a pretty good buffet (there are lots of buffets on our tours). The downside to the drive was the really bumpy roads, some serious lack of road maintenance, made it very difficult to sleep. We then stopped by our band manager’s house (this is his hometown) for a quick minute then headed to the hotel. This hotel is by far the worst one of the tour but not terrible. Oddly, you have to return the key at the front desk when you leave the hotel (and it’s a real key), that I don’t like at all. Fortunately we are only here one night, but ironically, this hotel has the best internet we’ve had all tour. We spent about 2 hours in the hotel and then went to the venue.
Tonight’s show was hard. We were all tired and the room was not good at all, acoustically. The crowd was small and we were have a bit of technical issues, but we still did our best and crowd seemed to enjoy it a lot. After the show, we didn’t stick around long, we packed up and loaded up quick since we have to get up at 5am tomorrow to catch a flight to Natal, the location for our last show of this tour. But, this being Brazil, we had to eat dinner (it was already about one), and that takes a while no matter you where you eat and who you’re with. The dinner though was amazing, and if I’m ever in this city again, I have to return to this place. It’s a little food stand on the street called Corino’s, and they make amazing sandwiches with everything and I mean everything. My sandwich had chicken, bacon, pineapple, lettuce and tomato, but that was hardly anything. The ‘tudo’ sandwich (which means ‘everything’ in Portuguese) comes with meat (beef, chicken, lamb or fish) bacon, hot dogs, mashed potatoes (yes), pineapple, corn (still yes), ketchup, egg and probably some other stuff I’m missing. Just ridiculous, but everyone enjoyed what they got.
Around 2:30, we started to get a little antsy and told our gracious hosts that we really need to get going to get at least a little bit of sleep. So here I am now, 3:15am and finishing this blog so I can get about 2 hours of sleep.
Until tomorrow.
