Area Rural

For the past week I have been staying at a property in the country, half an hour from a small town and 2 hours from a major city. Tonight I watched the neighborhood guys play soccer, some shoeless, with evenly matched teams. Several women made doce de leite caseiro ,or homemade condensed sweet milk a favored dessert here with milk from a neighbor's cow. The property is a narrow valley created by a little stream flanked by steep hills thick with jungle trees and plants. As seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere it is wet with day long light misty rain. Tomorrow afternoon begins the long trek back to the US. My 85 day sojourn in Brazil is almost over.