A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna

I imagine the same thing happened in large parts of the U.S. and now it's a Ag superpower.

One day, perhaps, we'll meet all our needs with indoor hydroponics and let the land return to its natural state.

Need to manage it well so it isn't completely destroyed in the meantime.

For the near future this will be a huge boon to the Brazilian economy and global food supply.

Brazil is almost an undiscovered country for the international bicycle-travel community. Long-haul South American routes go down the west side of the continent. Historically this was blamed on Brazil's roads being regarded as unusually narrow and dangerous. However, in the bikepacking era when lots of people want to ride rough tracks, not roads with many vehicles, it's odd that no such rough routes across Brazil have become popular among cyclists coming to the region from elsewhere.