ManaSyn

This. Without the Sahara, the Amazon might not have been able to grow much of its forests, as a lot of its nutrients come from that desert and are carried across the Atlantic.

How do you keep yourself hydrated? Do you use any kind of supplemented bottled water or do you risk it and drink the local water? What about traveler's diarrhea?

I'm don't mean to sound rude or too curious, but this is something that I've always been puzzled about world travelers such as yourself. But I absolutely envy you, I wish I could do something like that :)

Not wanting to nitpick, or maybe I do, but "saudades" is not specific to Brazilian Portuguese.

I may as well ask this too:

If you did learn Brazilian Portuguese rather than its European version, and you say Spanish is the hardest language, have you actually ever been to Portugal or talked to Portuguese people to try and see how it sounds? You may as well expand this question to all your other languages.

Not trying to say EP is harder than Spanish or BP, I'm just curious really.

I'm sorry for asking this, but did the cult do anything to your close family after you left? Is it still your family or they too have disowned you?

These questions sadden me as my father also had seven children, and it's awesome.