ALMOST DAILY VLOG

And that changes how you arrive — and how you build a new life in the Maraú Peninsula, Bahia. The Maraú Peninsula, on the southern coast of Bahia, Brazil, is increasingly sought after. If you search “how is it to live in Maraú” or “Maraú Peninsula Brazil,” you’ll mostly find images of long beaches and unreal turquoise water. They exist. But they do not explain the territory. Maraú is more than a beach destination. It is an estuarine region, an environmental preservation area,

In my delusions, I wanted a tropical modernist house in Maraú. Flat roof, sharp lines, glass everywhere, perfectly calculated brise-soleils. That clean Pinterest aesthetic — tropical modernist house goals . It felt entirely possible. Until the climate joined the conversation. Here it rains vertically, horizontally, and — at times — metaphysically. Yes, we could have done it. But it wasn’t worth the emotional cost of trusting a heroic gutter system. Against water, we have very

Bacurau Is Here and Now. Tetéia Is Coming. It was all blueprints and wild vegetation. In this photo, from left to right: Rodris, Regina, and Alcinei. This is the first entry of the Almost Daily — and as the name suggests, it won’t be daily. Nor will it be linear. A lot had already happened. Building a house in the middle of the woods, near the sea, in a village of just over 600 people, is quite an undertaking — especially if you are coming from São Paulo, where human time and