Category: Places
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Macumba Beach
The more that you read the more things you will know, the more that you learn the more places you’ll go. ~ Dr. Seuss The world’s record for most surfers riding the same wave simultaneously is 42 and was set at Rico’s Point, Macumba Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the 18th of November 2005.…
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New Year’s Eve in Brazil
Back in my office, sitting at my desk but my mind and spirit are still on the Costa da Sul (South Coast) of Rio de Janeiro and the coolest beach, Macumba Beach (future articles). Meanwhile, back in Sao Paulo the weather is overcast and still wet outside from the rain last night, all night, so…
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Here today, gone to Rio
The past year has been one of the greatest of my life. The growth on personal, strategic and economic fronts has been exceptional. Maybe it was all the people and all the collective work from the past that has propelled Silicon Palms to where it is now, but I say that the past 12 months…
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Life’s a Beach
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Super Natural British Columbia
My family’s home in Canada is some 200 miles east of Vancouver, about half-way between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, on the shore of a magnificent lake in a magical valley, both sharing the Native Indian name “Okanagan”. Every summer I return to the place of my youth, both literally and figuratively, as…
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Tropical Stonehenge
SAO PAULO, Brazil – A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory — a find archaeologists say indicates early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed. On the shortest day of the year — Dec. 21 — the shadow of one of the…
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Canada Day
Living abroad for the better half of my life makes me a true Ex-patriot (or expat) but that doesn’t mean I’m without a homeland. On the contrary, I love Canada to a degree that no-man should possibly feel towards a place, or area of land (dirt and trees). Most of my life away from Canada…
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Vegas Conferences
All webmasters who already do, and those who are interested in promoting and affiliating with online casinos will want to attend this free conference at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. The event is September 12 and 13, 2006 and includes a welcome party the evening of the 12th. There is no admission charge whatsoever…
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Embu das Artes
Rarely I travel in Sao Paulo alone and usually never more than I have to but there’s a place about 45 minutes from my home that I thoroughly enjoy visiting. It’s a little town called Embu das Artes or just plain Embu. We have some good friends living there and they have a house on…
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Tennis Anyone?
The French Open is on and in Brazil the television coverage begins in the morning and continues all through the day and evening. As you may know, there are no night-matches at Roland Garros, the Paris location of the French Open, so live television coverage concludes before dusk and unfinished matches are completed the following…