Last Saturday my wife and I, and some friends, decided to go to Venda Nova do Imigrante to eat polenta and listen to rock. But we headed out with a slight miscalculation. As the traffic into Guarapari was terrible (this weekend is holiday in Brazil), we decided not to fill up the tank in Guarapari. My plan was to fill in Viana before we start climbing the mountain, but could not find any suitable petrol stations along the main road, and no obvious signs to one.

"Well, I should have enough to get to Marechal Floriana, so thats no problem" I thought, and I was correct in that, though the warning lamp for low fuel level lit about the time I passed the entrance to Domingo Martins. In Marechal I turned left into the first fuel station I saw, which was closed (bummer), and asked where the next one was.
"About 43km further, or you can go back do Domingo Martins (5km)" a guy said.
So I hurried back to Domingo Martins, where I found two fuel stations closed. The situation was starting to get critical. Could I go 50 km to get the one they where talking about? We stopped infront of Policia Civil and asked for help. It turned out that we knew the same people, the officer on watch at policia civil and us, and they helped out as best they could (2 liters of gasoline transfered from one vehicle to out car) and called up the road to find out if there was another fuel station in Marechal. He came back telling us that there is a 24h post just 3 km from where we turned around. The fuel from the police held until there, and we got the tank topped up. Now we could continue to Venda Nova, and eat polenta.

I will for certain put in the fuel stations, and a few more roads in Venda Nova, Domingo Martins, and I have also a lot of more tracks for Guarapari. There is also a new road bridge in Vitoria, and I have tracks ready to correct that road.