Ponta Grossa to Sao Paulo

Today we drove back to Sao Paulo. Everywhere we looked on the way back we saw plantations of Blue Gums. Our own trees here in Brazil. According to Richard they have them in for fuel for burners and steam turbines. On his farm they plant them in six rows. They are ready to pollard / cut to 1m above ground at six years and then each row is cut yearly.

Blue Gum Plantations

The roads here are crappy at best, a dogs breakfast at worst. Driving was okay until we hit the outskirts of Sao Paulo and the drivers were nuts. They change lanes at the drop of a hat and it was bumper to bumper at 120 km/hr. We took a couple of wrong turns only because we could not change lanes. Amongst all the cars were dozens of motorbikes doing 80 through the cars line up at stops and lights. It was nice to finally get to the Hotel.

RR- Ratshit Roads