#brasilia

#brasilia

Exploring Brazil's capital city on his motorbike is a pleasure when the weather is like this, he says, and his canine cavalcade had effectively invited themselves along for the ride. The first member of our pack, Filo, isn't in the photo, but she was there that day, de Souza says. Filo started riding with me in a backpack years ago, then around the time she turned one, I rescued Teo.

In many ways, the middle-of-nowhere location makes sense for Brasília. It's not only the most un-Brazilian-feeling city in the country but it might also be the most un-Latin American-feeling. That's what makes it so fascinating. With an out-of-this-universe architectural vibrancy stuck somewhere between kitschy Bond films of the 1970s and Jane Fonda's "Barbarella, " Brasília is a city all its own.