Well, howdy do. I’ve been a tad quiet, I know. I have a very good reason for that – I’ve been writing. In fact, I’ve turned out more than 10,000 words in the last three days. So there.

I’ve now come to a bit of an impasse and have decided to take some time away from the room and the laptop.

I seem to have become the favourite midnight feast of some kind of insect and have reached the limit of my tolerance. My room/bed has been checked for bedbugs and none were found (phew!) However, I am going to set off what I would call a flea bomb, but what is known here in the States as a “fogger.” The room needs to be vacated for at least 2 hours while this happens, so I’m going touristing.

In fact, it was asking if said fogger would set off the smoke alarm in my room that led to the manager searching for bedbugs. I think it’s just mosquitos, but who knows? What really concerned me was something I came across in my search for a solution. I really didn’t want to have to cover myself in repellent before going to sleep – the scent would probably keep me awake all night – so I was looking for a more final solution.

Then I noticed that all the cans of mozzie spray had subtitles stating: kills insects that carry the West Nile Virus. Che?

There’s a West Nile? I’d heard of the Blue Nile and the White Nile, but wasn’t aware there were directional versions. Or that they had viruses, virii, virussies … argh?

Either way, don’t want none of that, thank you very much. So tomorrow, I fog. I’ll probably also suffer from heat exhaustion because it’s into the high 30s here. I’ve wanted to do some more exploring though and this is a fine excuse to do so.

And my fingers hurt.

ttfn

S.