Joe Aultman-Moorefound himself on a homestead a couple of hours outside of Rio de Janeiro doing chores, building custom shelves and discovering the spectacular birds of the southern rainforest. He spent a week hiking on a jungle island, and dodging rattlesnakes and Armadeira spiders. Aultman-Moore went on to spend about a month riding riverboats down the Amazon from Colombia to Belem, with a long stop in Manaus to see the famous opera house. He…