I broke a few days from blogging due to our visiting time with 2 of my very close friends from Marquette. I knew both separately and introduced them to another and today they are married with a 16 month old amazing daughter; she is a ray of sunshine.
Don't get me wrong, I love both of my friends and the melded 'person' they are as a married couple. But their little girl is something more than words can fully describe. They are family.
Attached is a blurry picture of the little lass trekking a blue top I gave her for her first birthday.
At this point you may be wondering what in the world is that other picture of?
If you had not noticed the picture previously or did not look after the above statement, look now.
Hints: It's not poison ivy nor oak, both matt and I are just short of being absolutely covered in these from neck to toe, it is very very itchy, it is not contagious.
We don't know either!
In short we camped on an inlet state park reservation just off the A1A.
We were warned on checkin that the bugs were bad today. We had bug spray, so that was not an issue.
Matt and I first were assigned a site with no tree or greenery and it was next to the main access road to take boats to/from water.
We picked out another gorgeous site and started setting up camp when we were swarmed by more mosquitoes then i have seen at one time; we put the bug spray on.
The bugs still Seder to to attacking and we felt our skin crawling with itch but could not see anything.
So we spent the entire evening and full night in the tent. This night was the only camping night we experienced in that it rained, although only a little.
We still were itchy and could hear bugs flew by our ears. It was very humid but we needed to cover up to stay away from the mosquitos.
We almost picked up camp and left to get a hotel in the middle of the night.
The next day we took off early and seemed to just be bitten up pretty good by the mosquitoes. We enjoyed the ride down the Florida coast, bopping town to town but just passing through towns for turn most part. It was simply an enjoyable day.
That morning our too bikes fell off the bike rack which was still attached to the car truck.
Semis were flashing their lights at us as we are cruising 80 MPH on the highway. Luckily matt hooked the bikes together and also to the rack itself, which was still attached. So we only dragged our new bikes. No one was hurt.
Matts bike uas some parts needing to be replaced. More on the status with photos of the bikes to come after they are taken home and diagnosed.
All I know is Matts expensive road bike took most, well possibly all the damage. And my $15.00 1 speed garage sale bike, with front metal basket, does not to have seemed to have very minor to no damage.
As we approached the Fort Lauderdale area we stopped for an anti-itch topcal medicine. Since we are two bottles+half a bottle of a similiar Alveno product+ a good portion of a bottle of calamine + antihistamine for a couple days + a lot of gentleness and TLC, we are on the mend.
We do not know the name of the bug that bit us but have concluded it to be sand fleas or some other flying black tiny bug that could fit between the mesh on the tent. We have been eatten alive and we both may be psychologically scarred from this experience.
We spent a day laying on blankets on the beach with our friends and also BBQd and relaxed in a park another day. Matt got the chance to take a bike out on some very technical off road biking trails.
He hurts a little in a few places but really enjoyed trying it out.
Tomorrow we have a 4-5 hour drive from North of Atlanta, GA to Nashville, TN where we hope to get some time logged at a live jazz or blues music evening lounge.
Time to sign off and reapply more topical.
I really wish I could make this stuff up.
1 comment:
Sounds like you were attached by "no-see-ums" which are common in that area. They are so small you can't see them but they bite and itch. :-(
Aunt Beth
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