Well, after all of the anticipation of hitch-hiking to Brazil which then changed to travelling all together in some dilapidated old van, we are back to the standard old method of climbing aboard a bus for the entire journey. I am sure that my mother will breathe a sigh of relief now... I do not have too much time to write as I am leaving within 1/2hr. Our bus departs Corrientes at 1am and after about 9hrs of travel we turn up bleary-eyed at the border with Brazil. Foz do Iguazu is a very cool town just on the other side of the border with Argentina. From here we catch another bus at sometime around 4pm for a 25hr journey up to the big city of Belo Horizonte. If our calculations are right, the bus makes it all the way, there are no emergencies, and nothing requires us to deviate from our intended route... then we should arrive at our destination at around 5pm on the day the conference starts. I suspect it will start at around 8pm, so that gives us a 3hr window for any mishaps that may occur on the way. With a 6hr stop-over in Foz, I hope to drag everyone over the border to Paraguay to show them my popular destination of Ciudad del Este, which they have not yet seen... ...or maybe I will just sleep. :-)