To the South Pole and back!

A couple of weeks ago I was handed some very awesome pictures.  A fan of ours had traveled to Antarctica with his hat and had some once in a lifetime kind of shots taken with it.  I wanted to share a few to you because they are so cool.  If you’re a true adventurous person I think our hats capture that spirit and displays it for the whole world to see, even from the South Pole!

Our hats have almost been all over the world and if you have any pictures of where you and your hat have been please send them in!!!  Email them to us!!

TAIBA!!!

Beautiful - Absolutely Beautiful!  Taiba is a wonderful little fishing village along the Brazilian Coastal line.  Everything here was very relaxed and I felt as if I had almost stepped into one of those brochures people hand out to tourists.  You know the ones with all the happy, smiling beautiful people and the beautiful scenery.  When I was walking along the beach I was captivated by the boats that scattered the shoreline. Now not the boats your thinking of, not the huge sport and fishing boats we see here, these boats had the look and feel like they had been passed down from generations to generation to fish with.  Here are some pictures of a couple of guys pushing their boat out into the ocean to go fishing with.

Belem!

First, let me apologize for not posting this sooner.  It's been a little hectic around these parts, actually I think its been a little hectic everywhere!

The 2nd destination on my last trip to Brazil was Belem, you could kind of consider this city as the entrance way to the Amazon.  It is a very busy place and everyone is constantly moving.  I flew there because to travel there by boat would have taken about 96 hours, now I like a nice boat trip but that is a little too much even for me!

Here are some pictures from the flight;

This city was amazing and there was so much to see and do.  While I was there I found out that approximately 2 million people in this city, I believe it.  Every street was packed with people and every corner had a merchant or two on it.

Manuas!

These are just a couple of pictures I took while visiting Manuas.  After going back and looking at these pictures I got to thinking about what I found so interesting about them - I think besides the beautiful colors and atmosphere its the shear size of everything.  This town is inland on a huge river (and I mean HUGE river) named the Rio Negro.  For more information about this town check out this link.

This first picture is the view from my hotel room.

This is one of my favorite pictures.  It's a picture of a riverboat, this is one source of main transportation in Manuas, and the smaller boats that this boat is pulling are used to carry to your destination if the riverboat can't make it.

I took this picture as I was wondering around.  This town is very busy, the street is lined with different merchants selling a variety of items.

The fish market - look at all those people and this is just a section!

I captured this picture because to me it was just so interesting.  One small boat on a huge river - it really shows the immense size of the Rio Negro and really helps put things into perspective.

You can't see it in this picture but the trees down there are just big, lush and beautiful.

One section of the town. It may be to small to see but the river front is lined with merchants.

I was walking down to get on this boat and saw these kids just having the time of their lives.  Man how I envied them!

Traveling through Brazil

I’ve just returned from Brazil, as always want an amazing place!  You may not know this but we have added some Real Deal Bags to our collection (we decided that just a hat wouldn’t do), you can view them here. 

You may notice that some of the names of these bags seem rather peculiar, maybe somewhat interesting.  Well I can show you exactly where they are on a map.  I’ve visited each town and this time I brought back pictures of just about everyone of them so that I could show you what a wonderful little towns they are and why they deserve to have something named after them – after all they are what inspired us to get into this recycled tarp business.

On this map you can see where each city is and I even marked out my trip.

Check back next week to see pictures of Manaus!

Awesome Picture!

I wanted to share this picture, it's from David over there at thegoodhuman.com.  He was recently on a trip in New Mexico and his wife captured this stunning picture.

Beautiful Brazil

No matter how many times we go to Brazil, I am still entranced by it.  Maybe it’s the heat that plays with our minds, either way I still find Brazil to be a beautiful and truly mysterious place.  The culture, the people and even the land just seem so real and maybe it’s just the fact we feel that much closer to earth here then anywhere else. 

I’ve got some more pictures I would like to share.

What is truly amazing to me is just being able to walk around and see all these different things, how often are we truly mesmerized by our surroundings?