Magic Our second day in Brazil I looked around at our lunch setting – a floating restaurant on the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon River, where fish was being set out for us as our kids were swimming and kayaking, and remarked to one of the other trip participants that this was one of those magical moments – those times in your life when you want … Read More
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