Day 7 in the Big Brutha Special Bus

D-DAY II - WHO IS ROGER BANNISTER?

Number of hours in the car: 12

Number of hours lost: 7

Number of funny toilet stories: 1

Another debate I am not allowed to mention is the `Shall we bypass Sao Paulo completely on our drive today?`...moving on (but definitely coming back to it later) we made really good time in the morning and had a comedy moment when Lei got stuck in a public Brazilian toilet! We are talking comedy sketch moment when the handle comes away in one hand and you hear the other half fall to the ground...luckily us girls always go to the bathroom together and did so for the rest of the trip after this incident, so we were all able to come to the rescue and take photos and laugh! It was looking like our options were to pull Lei over the wall or leave her there until Vikki the Door Fixing Genius had a go.

It was funny but not funny enough to get us through the next seven hours of driving around 1/8 of a page of the map looking for route 65. We hate Route 65. We ended up in Campinas (not even close to where we wanted to be), in an expensive hotel with some people patient enough to try and give us directions and with yellow pages - out of which we stole the local maps FOR THE GOOD OF OUR SANITY! Everyday´s a school day and we find out that although roads are marked as numbers on the maps, they usually are signposted as names - we have in fact been looking for the Dom Pedro Road this whole time and just not knowing it - probably drove past it a fair few times too :( In the words of Pink, Who Knew?