10-5-08
I arrived in Brazil today. It was a 30+ hour flight from Hawaii to here but I am glad to be here. In typical “Frank Factor” style My first flight was canceled so I had to leave the following day. I informed Luiz from www.brazilian-transsexuals.com but he mis read it and was at the airport on the day of my first flight. He was mad because he had to be at the airport in peak rush hour morning traffic ad he waited for an hour for me to come out. He sent me a text and I got in when I arrived at a layover destination. I had a good laugh as his expense we are like brothers so it was funny.
Today was a jet lag recovery day. We went to the beach and smoked a cigar then had a late lunch. I needed to get settled so we went back to the place I am staying and met up a few hours later. We went for dinner at the restaurant in front of help and watched the eye candy. There is a rumor that next year Help will close for good, because Rio want to change the sex destination reputation it has. If this happens it will be a sad state of affairs for Copacabana beach. It will lead to more street walkers on the beach and more petty theft.
After dinner we drove down to Rua Augusta Silvera (Shemale Street) and had a look around. I stopped and talked with Patty Bionda and a few others there. I will be in Rio for a week or so Shooting. There isn’t the talent pool here that there is in Sao Paulo, whoever noone aside from Luiz and I shoot here so they are mainly fresh faces. Hilda Brazil is also in Rio and I hope to photograph her as well.