1) being woken up in the middle of the night by a man in fatigues as he waves a very real, very guantanamo bay machine gun towards the door and says, "everyone off the bus. now."
2) sitting next to, and subsequently sleeping next to, a dude who spits behind the chair occasionally to clear his phlegm... and whose knees ended up in the middle of my back during the night as he struggled to curl his long legs up in child's pose. (he got a tricep full of my elbow)
3) sitting behind a man who had some weird itchy head ailment, so for the entire 30 HOURS of the trip, he sat there scratching it with this weird brush-like tool and spreading his dandruff everywhere, i'm sure. (i took a picture. i had to.)
4) having a bus attendant who, although was male and quite young, must have had hot flashes by the way he would turn the AC OFF constantly causing the bus to turn into a raging foot locker sauna
5) going double decker bus off-roading (i'm not kidding) due to a fire accident on the main highway, so our driver decided to drive right off the road and into the brush.
6) stepping on the left over weave of the girl sitting across the aisle as she discarded her head of fake braids onto the floor that got caught on her apple core that she also discarded on the bus floor and then having to watch her pluck her eyebrows for the last 2 hours of the ride.
7) 25 hours turning into 30 hours.
8) the leaking bathroom... i can't even get into it.... let's just say it wasn't leaking from the women's bathroom. i don't know. i can't even....
9) the tear-inducing stench... like a 10 year old used gym sock found at the bottom of a expired milk carton that's been mixed w old dog food
10) the non-descript 'pasta' dinner... at least i hope it was pasta.
but it wasn't all terrible, i suppose... i got to see casino royale dubbed in spanish, didn't have any major issues at the border, and finally, seeing the sand dunes of himalayan proportions as we bounced along the coast of peru was pretty stunning... so there's that. i also met up with my brother in lima (YAY!) and we are off to trek the inca trail to maccu picchu tomorrow for 4 days now. fingers crossed i don't trip and fall over the edge....
in the meantime... to keep you busy, here are the links to the pictures from quito and the galapagos... enjoy.
http://picasaweb.google.com/
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i miss everyone very much. please keep writing back when and if you have time, i love hearing from each and every one of you... it makes me smile and forget about itchy dandruff scalp man.
*besitos...
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