tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507576433028030758.post-30292992758084936232008-03-11T13:47:00.002-05:002008-03-11T14:07:05.699-05:00After visiting Iguasu Falls from the Brasilian side, we went and toured the Itaupu Dam. I´ll let you all google it to get the details, but this thing is BIG. <a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_uzOlpGH-jbk/R9bUriCXgfI/AAAAAAAAAeI/WYQ8Fz6wxy0/s1600-h/IMG_3272.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176558666045161970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_uzOlpGH-jbk/R9bUriCXgfI/AAAAAAAAAeI/WYQ8Fz6wxy0/s320/IMG_3272.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /> We headed north towards Dourados and Rhondonopolis through more soybean country. The soil here is really red, kinda like Mars.<br /><br /><p><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_uzOlpGH-jbk/R9bUsCCXggI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/2KJwIsXpcwU/s1600-h/IMG_3291.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176558674635096578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_uzOlpGH-jbk/R9bUsCCXggI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/2KJwIsXpcwU/s320/IMG_3291.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p> The rains west of Rhondonopolis had slowed the soy harvest, but not the truck traffic on the BR-364. In a short stretch from Rhondonopolis to Cuiaba we must have passed 80 trucks in an hour. Throw in a drizzling rain and the trucks swerving to dodge 3 foot wide potholes on a two lane road, and you have an adrenaline filled day, or two.<br /></p><p><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_uzOlpGH-jbk/R9bUsiCXghI/AAAAAAAAAeY/4YLtx0s8K34/s1600-h/IMG_3338.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176558683225031186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_uzOlpGH-jbk/R9bUsiCXghI/AAAAAAAAAeY/4YLtx0s8K34/s320/IMG_3338.JPG" border="0" /></a> </p><p>The two lane BR-364 doesn´t do alot of meandering, it´s either uphill or downhill. The trucks might slow to 40 kph at the top of the hill, but they make up time by getting up to 140 kph on the way down the other side. Makes me wish I´d taken more physics classes, all this velocity and mass and oncoming traffic stuff.<br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_uzOlpGH-jbk/R9bUvSCXgiI/AAAAAAAAAeg/uOZMxyC9gVg/s1600-h/IMG_3314.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176558730469671458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_uzOlpGH-jbk/R9bUvSCXgiI/AAAAAAAAAeg/uOZMxyC9gVg/s320/IMG_3314.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /></p>acolytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10045230114079036601noreply@blogger.com