Wilson writes:

John,

I received one of the Samstones from the hands of Joanne Martin, during her trip to Brazil, in the week of November/5th. As you know, she came to the keynote speaker in the TLC-BR Annual Meeting, and brought one of the stones specifically to be left in São Paulo (by the way, Joanne, I hope you had a great and safe trip back to US, and brought home some good stories about your new Brazilian friends).

As Joanne can tell you in details, John, IBM Building is very close to the most important Park we have in São Paulo (Parque do Ibirapuera) and we (I, Liguroi, Spagnuolo and some others) go to the park every Friday to run. I promised Joanne to find a good place in the Park and leave one Samstone there. The opportunity appeared last wednesday (that was similar to a Friday due to a National holiday we had on Thursday) and Spagnuolo and I went to the Park and had the opportunity to leave the stone there.

In the first map below you will see IBM Building (red “A” at Rua Tutoia) and the park, represented by the green arrow (Ayrton Senna Tunnel goes underground and therefore all the green area is continuous and belong to the park). In the second map you can see the exact location of the stone. You see the same green arrow and then a round building northwest (with a yellow circle around it) close to the left superior corner of the map (“northwest” of the green arrow). This building houses “São Paulo Planetarium” (the reason he is a round building) and I positioned the stone in front of the Information board that is close to the main entrance. We assumed people that potentially go to the board for information is the kind of people that can pay attention to that “Sam” in one of the faces of the stone, and may get it and then anyything can happen.

We never know, but maybe someone that caught it will make contact through the site. Anyway, a Samstone is in São Paulo now. I hope it helps spreading Sam smile, hapiness and passion.

Wilson (and Spa).