Kirstens Brazil Vaca...er, work trip

Can be found HERE. She keeps insisting it was for work, but any week long trip that involves 6.5 days of sightseeing and beachin' it officially qualifies as a vacation I do believe 8-) She said the most unusual thing was that people were always asking one another, and her, 'how much money do you have?' almost like it was their version of 'hey, how ya doing?'. As a female traveling alone in a country that has a high crime and poverty rate, probably the best answer to this question is a big ol' zero...nada...none.