We arrived in Brasilia Tuesday lunchtime and drove to an RV repair shop where we are getting some work done. First of course, the alternator is off getting looked at as I write.
Alessandro the owner of Guará Motorhomes is going to install a new rooftop air conditioner and new more powerful solar panels and convert our fridge to 12 volts from 110 volts. The idea is to make us more energy self sufficient. It will take a few weeks…but we have a friend from Key West who has a teaching job in Brasilia. That was a welcome surprise.
We’re staying in her apartment while we search for a place of our own while we get GANNET2 to peak livable performance. The idea is to spend January cruising the beaches of southern Brazil, something to look forward to as we struggle with all these technical decisions for our home. We want to be able to generate electricity to live off grid if not indefinitely at least for several days without worrying about energy.
Plus we get to know this strange city built 60 years ago in a Federal District created on the whim of some politicians. The climate so far has been perfect, which is a nice change from northern incandescent equatorial Brazil and there’s no malaria here.
Oh and by the way have you ever heard of a Ford F250 Tropical? Me neither and yet…
Who knows what we will discover as we move ahead making it up as we go along in this magical South American world.
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