Porto de Gallinhas, Brazil

This booming tourist trap with beautiful beaches was an old school entry-port for slaves. The slave boat would pull into the town, probably upto the same sea-wall still extant, and announce that the chickens had arrived. chickens being code for slaves. now the town mascot/image is a chicken. tshirts, carvings, etc.
A good day is getting to the beach dog tired with your dog tired travel partner and sitting under an umbrella (after running the gauntlet of umbrella touters) and going in for dips and drinking cold fruit juices and then being taken out on a raft to reefs about 100 yards out from shore with all sorts of natural pools full of sea-life. this includes the sharp-spoked urchin and the unnamed fish used getting tossed food pellets. part of the reef mini-tour was getting goggles so you could snorkel for a bit while the pellet-savvy fish surround. snorkeling is probably my new favorite pasttime. a gigantic unknown, ungoverned world down there.
after that you go to lunch of heavy fry and salt sauces and eat a lot.

baseball people: while trying to get to sleep i tried to think of lefties i would term CLASSY. ill start with larry gura and jimmy key for starters.