Quito, Ecuador

So I got to Quito last night.  First thing first.  While I was in Panama I couldn´t help but notice all the massive electronic stores.  People were going crazy trying to buy them but they were totally more expensive than back in the States.  Anyway, when I arrived to Quito I made a grave realization.  I´m a HORRIBLE traveller.  As in, all possible horrible illnesses and maladies I could suffer from, I do.  In mosquito ridden areas, I´d be the girl the mosquitoes massively attack then I´ll be the one with the worst reaction to the bites.  While snorkling in Caye Caulker I realized that I do suffer from some sea sickness after I went down in the boat and my stomach went hay-wired.  Then when I just set foot down in Quito BOOM!  Altitude sickness galore.  It hit me outta nowhere.  Since the Quito Airport didn´t have those plane dockings directly connected to a terminal I had to slowly walk down a long corridor trying not to throw up.  I kept on repeating that line in Family Matters ¨3-2-1, 1-2-3, what the hell is bothering me?¨  Suffice to say, it didn´t work because I ran to a trash can and threw up.  After my hostal picked me up I was doing fine in the car.  Right when we arrived at the Inn and I stepped foot outside I literally slouched down to the grown, sat my butt on the cement and threw up everything I had.  It continued in the night when I literally had the WORST SLEEP OF MY LIFE.  The worst.  I was hallucinating thinking 3 days have gone by and how my life was a mess just to wake up and realize it was only 4:40 AM.

Now I´m all weak and still itchy.  Well…hopefully it can only go up from here.  I´m hoping to go to the equator.  I hear you can step on one side then the other.  Kinda cool.

~ by kimtravels on October 27, 2008.