LA family disappears after pirate raid in Amazon rainforest, then re-emerges on a surfboard
by Matt Pearce and Jill Langlois, Los Angeles Times
Nov 03, 2017
4 minutes
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Each day, tens of thousands of people around the world scroll through their Instagram feeds for news of Adam and Emily Harteau and their travels through South America with their kids in an old Volkswagen van.
One day, the Harteaus and their daughters, ages 3 and 7, are lounging on an isolated beach, far from the worries the couple left behind in Los Angeles in 2012.
On another, the Harteaus are crawling along the craggy plateaus and green chasms of the Chapada Diamantina National Park in Brazil, hippie wanderers in the age of
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