Churrasco (BBQ) near Goiania

Meal for the meat lovers.
Huge range of meats are cooked over coals

As the meat is cooked it is taken around the tables and carved straight on to the plate.

Lamb, chicken, chicken hearts, sausages, and a huge range of beef cuts as well as plenty of unidentified objects slowly cook and smoke over the coals.

It's an all you can eat occasion and the waiters are not shy about keeping the meat up to the table.

Indian Zebu

Sixteen month old Indian Zebu bulls which are to be sold as breeding sires

When the ears flap run...
Yes he did happen to have a short fuse.

That hump keeps turning up on the menu.
Not my choice of cuts, pale, tough & quite flavour less.

Not much hind quarter there.

Brazilian Road Trip

Afternoon thunder clouds over soybean crop

Yep that's my hand in the corner, you wanted a photo with me in it Gill.


Around 1000 km on the road over last few days,
the roads aren't bad but the gee the bus could do with some suspension in the back end.

Coffee anyone

Rows and rows of coffee
These with Australian Silky Oak windbreaks

Professional cupper (coffee taster) knocking us up his best espresso in the plantations fully fitted out tasting lab.

Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo-Third largest city in the world
One of the most redeeming features of this huge city is the street art this is a small section of a huge graffiti mural.

Cashews in the market
Cashew juice is on the breakfast menu, very sweet.

Few reminders of the Portuguese colonial period remain
The majority of the cities development occurred post the 1920's

Typical Sao Paulo skyline, a concrete jungle
Looking forward to getting into the countryside

Faces & Places of Mexico

That's it for Mexico this time...
Of to Brazil!!!

Teotihuacan Mexico

Cactus country

Teotihuacan Pyrimids and City ruins

Scale of the pyramids and the avenue between the pyramids is amazing

The father of the Green Revolution

CIMMYT

Norman Bourlaug "The Father of the Green Revolution" credited by many as the man who ran the research programs which have saved millons of people around the world from starvation over the last 60 years.
His work carries on at CIMMYT stations around Mexico and the world.

Seed bank at CIMMYT headquarters in Mexico City.
This vault holds 140,000 wheat varities and 28,000 varities of maize from around the world.

Tortilla Anyone

Lunch at a Mexican rural roadside stall

Deep fried pork, wheat tortilla, pickled carrot & onion, lime and chilli salsa

Delicious, wouldn't want to eat it every day though. 

"Chef" deep frying the pork in huge tubs of pork fat

Very glad we had help ordering and didn't end up with these bits

Obregon-Sonora Mexico

Sonora is not renown for its dairy farms

Carrot harvesting-these carrots are off to Canada
They tasted good too!

Mexican wheat

Wheat

Wheat....

More wheat & wheat farmers

Marty & wheat
Lots of wheat breeding plots today!

San Francisco

Tram cars a rolling streets
Good one for the billy cart Hugh & George

Alcatraz-from Fisherman s Wharf

That's the end of our visit to Uncle Sam!

Salinas Valley to Sacramento

Castroville "Artichoke Capital of the World"

In 1947 a young woman named Norma Jean was crowned Castroville's first artichoke queen.

Happy to miss out on seeing any of these locals

El Nido-California
Californian Dairy- 114 units, 7 labour units in the pit, 500 cows/hr, 24hr operation, 6000 cows


Individual calf hutches housing 3000 calves
Wow this is a very impressive operation, and the cows looked great, mature at about 500kg, not monsters