a short drive from overrun

Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, known as Sampa to those who are familiar with the rolling, expansive metropolis. This city has been described as monstrous, a city that makes the skyscrapers of New York and Hong Kong nervous to ask for a second date.  Many of these residents are grateful to be off the well beaten tourism route, thankful to Rio for luring the boatloads of cameras and Hawaiian shirts away. Here in Sampa, they are free to grow as they wish. Creating art where they please and hiding away in their favorite coffee shops for days, debating the political and temperate climate in Brazil and where the next road trip will take them. Later, they meet at an apartment that overlooks the city and a yellow church, they drink a cold Dado and watch the horizon. They know word of this undiscovered paradise will eventually escape the confines of the city, but for right now--they hope it stays secret for a little longer.