Here is the second installment from a recent visit to Inhotim, in the interior of Minas Gerais. (For the first installment, kindly go here.) Interestingly, when I asked if most of the hoards of youth who serve as guides and guards are from the local town of Brumadinho, […]
Sadly, one of the greatest Contemporary Art collections of Latin America, Inhotim in Minas Gerais, continues to slide into DEI and wokism. On a cloudy December day I visited most of the new exhibits installed since my last visit – which were nearly universal in dwelling on victimology. (The one […]
I recently revisted the port city of Belém, at the mouth of the mighty Amazon, which was the quixotic goal of the journey recounted in my book To Belém & Back. Invited to teach a short course at a Calvary Chapel in the city, I arrived on a Friday […]
Lavras Novas, high up in the Serra de Ouro Branco mountains of Minas Gerais, is a discovery. I spent a recent weekend there, a work-vacation, drafting an overdue edit (the 12th) of the manuscript for my fifth book. The town was until recently (around 2022) of difficult access, on […]
After 25 years of faithful service, my old station wagon named “Fofão” (for “Big Cutie”) has retired into the nearby Royal Road Antique Car Museum in Bichinho here in Minas Gerais. She has driven over 270,000 kilometers (nearly 168,000 miles) entirely within Brazil, on several long and somewhat risky drives […]
