“Next time leave the wasp alone!”

This is my post for May 1 – I was without internet for 24 hours so this is a day late. This is the wasp that attacked me last night. After I turned off the light, I heard it again. I have not really had that many experiences with wasps but it made me very nervous. I decided to kill it with hairspray so I didn’t have to get close. I sprayed it twice and it disappeared. When I woke up, it was lying on the carpet next to the bed. My host was less than impressed with my story and told me to “leave the wasp alone” next time.

24 Hours in Loco

We spent noon to noon at her rustic cabin on a small man-made lake. I have been there several times so its isolation doesn’t bother me as much as it did the first time. This is about 15 miles outside of Spartanburg. You go through a locked fence and into the woods. You drive about a mile or so on a rutted dirt and gravel road to the little oasis of isolation. I felt like I was in the movie “Deliverance” my first time there. We read on the screened-in porch, biked on the paved county roads that surround the property the lake is on, had an evening ride in the John boat around the lake – a very relaxing time. In addition to the cabin hidden by the trees, there is a tree house.

Loss of smell is not always a bad thing – there was a dead rat in the cabin and a dead possum floating in the lake — I smelled neither. Friday evening I did get a hint of some cigarette smoke which I used to be exquisitely sensitive to so I think it is SLOWLY recovering. I think my taste may be recovering more than my smell. I am enjoying eating more – perhaps because for the past 2 weeks eating has been a social rather than solo event.

I have my itinerary pretty well planned out now. I head back to Nashville tomorrow for vaccine #2 and then head out later on May 9th to get part way to Lewes Deleware. From Lewes, I will go to Philly for a few days, the Jersey shore for a few days, southern Vermont, and then NYC area before heading into the midwest for Cleveland, Columbus, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and southern Ohio and perhaps a stop in Kentucky before heading back to Nashville in early July. So much fun ahead.