We fly from Iguazu to Rio, with a plane change at São Paulo that is long enough Glenn can call his college roommate, Don Altman. We go on to Rio for several days, but return to São Paulo on a Friday for a long weekend with Don & Charlotte (who was Don’s girlfriend when we were at UC Berkeley). Don takes us to his club for lunch and then we drive to Guaraja at the seashore where Charlotte is staying, away from São Paulo’s polluted air. They have an apartment in a high-rise on the beach front. We have a great visit with them; we had seen them only twice since college; once in Milwaukee during WW II, and once when they were on their way from England to Mexico. We have kept in touch by mail, but there is a lot of catching up to do.
The electricity goes out for more than a day, and we are on one of the upper floors, so we talk and play cards by candlelight. (Charlotte has bad lungs, and passes away within a year, so we are grateful to have visited them when we did.) Don drives us back to São Paulo and shows us a lot of this very large, crowded, and bustling city, with much modern architecture and air pollution. He drops us off at the airport for our flight back to Rio.
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