The sun just peeked through this cloudy São Paulo day. When I was a kid my parents used to take me and my brother camping a lot in outback Australia. We would get out maps and plan our trip, looking at names of towns and mountains we didn’t yet know. I guess something rubbed off, decades later I’m still looking over paper maps, searching for mountain ranges that hold information about our planet’s history. I still get the same kick of excitement today thinking about the places I will see and the people I will meet on my fieldwork in central Brazil. Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) posting from São Paulo.