A long sleep and a few cups of coffee (plus the improved weather) worked their usual magic and Rio looks much better to me today than it did yesterday.
The journey here was mostly smooth, with one unpleasant wrinkle—I'd used miles to upgrade to business class so I could sleep, but it turned out that my seat refused to recline. They've replaced the push-button controls with a touch screen and mine didn't work, despite several attempts to reboot. Finally an intrepid flight attendant got down on the floor with an iPhone flashlight and disconnected enough of the machinery to get the seat flat. Or mostly flat; there was a lump in the middle that wasn't very comfortable, and of course I couldn't raise the seat back in the morning, so had to eat breakfast sitting cross-legged on what was now basically a bench.
I didn't especially enjoy trudging around Copacabana in the rain yesterday afternoon, but I'm looking forward to the Botanical Gardens this afternoon. And there are flocks of frigate birds in the sky!
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