Wed 1024 Waiting for breakfast.
Didn't sleep that well. Woke up very sweaty and maybe a bit feverish quite a bit. Clearly not doing something as "faffy" as trying to get to chac. This sucks but if I am feeling under the weather that can't be helped. On plus side whether down to echidnea or not I don't obviously seem to have a cold.
It feels like forever since I've been well but of course it has been two nights and one full day. I can't help wondering if I'm getting "too old" but that is probably ridiculous and just the emotional shittiness of being ill.
1045 had breakfast. Forgot to say yday that "owner chap" is Spanish, had lived in Brighton for years and probably isn't owner as he is apparently just working here for the winter as he lives in a Gruyere-cheese 150 year old family house in Spain and it leaks like crazy. He was talking with us for part of the time last night.
I have fleece on BTW. I don't feel terrible right now. I think I may have been a bit hungry before. Right hip hurts a little but it does sometimes and that could easily be in part the tent mattress.
Left wrist hurts a bit and I do feel a slight but persistentish tension in chest.
FWIW just checked and there are no Tren Maya services from Chetuaml (airport, but I think that is the only Xhetumal stop) to Xpujil tomorrow, and I am guessing other days too but not checked, so using it as an alternative to buses with crappy after dark arrivals is not an option.
1119 checked booking and I probably could extend here another night. On one hand this is feeling a bit silly. OTOH I am mildly ill and need to hole up somewhere and I am here and at least it is cheap. I do wonder if the tent is making it worse but maybe not and it is at least private and I can shuffle and sweat and get up in the night etc without disturbing anyone.
Stomach feels a bit rough, don't know why. Coffee is not sitting very well. I was going to have a shower but I kind of can't face drying odd with never properly dry viscose towel - stuff is just not drying well in this climate with no real sun, I guess.
Trouble is that all the remaining stuff I maybe want to do here like chac and ixcabel is "hard" /stressful enough that I don't want to do it feeling shit. I half wonder if i ahould eg go on to chetumal and get an aircon private with a proper bes and maybe wander round the town a little bit which is probably not so big a deal while feeling under the weather, then maybe come back here. But would I come back here? And would I have the balls to do these "hard" things? Also it feels like just maybe -though I have not mentioned it, since I am not sure I am well enough -I might find someone here to split cost of a taxi to ixcabel or something.
1306 have extended another night so now leaving Fri. This in some ways feels like I am wasting time but if I am ill I am ill and at least it is cheap. I hope being in the tent isn't making it worse but it probably isn't. At least it is private. Had rather crappy phone call with mum asking her opinion on this and got mostly platitudes about how it is nicer to be in a room etc, she clearly has the wrong end of the stick about where I am (acting like it is the middle of nowhere). She did seen to think being in nicer surrounding might help me get better quicker but was hardly very definite. And I also suspect she imagines it to be harsher here than it is. And I do at least have the shared fridge and quite nice gadden which I wouldn't have in a hotel or something.
Going to go for a bit of a walk.
I do also kind of wonder if somewhat irrationally I am going to be bored/sick of Bacalar by the time I am better and not want to stay and faff with these possible excursions. I
maybe can't spell it but I couldn't find anything about Ixcabel on web. But then the other night when sitting on public pier I was thinking it would be good to stay an extra night and go for another swim and so on before moving on.
1636 Back after lying on bed. I went out for a little bit of a wander. I took my fleece with me. I've had it on. I was feeling a bit cold. I wandered down to the Muele Munisipal, which is next to the other public pier. This one just had a muddy path down to the small area at the side of the lake. It's practically next to the other pier, but it only costs 10 pesos to go into this one, although it's not as nice. Anyway, I did it just for something to do.
I actually started to feel warm at this point, so I took the fleece off. I wasn't sure what to do. It started to spit slightly, so I thought I'd maybe go and get some fruit or something. Actually, what I kind of thought was maybe I could get something healthy-ish to eat, but that was going to be a bit satisfying. If it wasn't too much fuss, I might cook myself some rice, but I really don't want to get into that. Anyway, I went down to Darleny and I thought, Well, buy some bread and ham and have some sandwiches, but there were no prices on anything. So I trogged down into town to one of the supermarkets near El Valiente and I got some there, I broke a 500, trogged back to the hostel and have had a couple of sandwiches. Walking into town and back wasn't agonising but it felt like an effort. So I guess I'm definitely not 100% and yes it probably isn't a good idea for me to be going trying to get off to Chac or whatever.
I am feeling a bit fed up, but as I've probably said, endlessly, I've only actually been sick for a day or two, it just feels like forever. There's no reason to think I won't be feeling better soon, maybe even tomorrow, who knows. And there's nothing I can do about it.
Did notice earlier - I have a photo and a video - that was actually a kind of little lizard hiding inside one of the outer bits of the tent structure. The fabric must double back on itself to make a sort of tunnel, perhaps around a pole or something. I'm not sure. And you can see from one side there's the shadow of this lizard, but it is inside because if you look around the other side it's not there at all.
1928 on terrace. Had shower and cleaned teeth. Decided not to change top or socks. Since I only have one dirty top I am not going to wash tonight.
Not feeling terrible but stomach vaguely bloaty. Yes had 8ish sandwiches but still, not ideal. Some loose bms but really solid one first thing this morning. May go to bed in an hour or so.
2215 Back in the tent, I was just intending to sit on the terrace and read for a little bit with some water and then go to bed early, but I ended up speaking to a German guy who's off back home tomorrow. He has spent a lot of time in Guatemala and I'm seriously tempted - it's something I'd sort lf considered anyway - to do maybe a two-week loop from Palenque through Flores, Tikal and Yakche?. I haven't got forever but you know there's probably time for that if I ever start feeling better. I feel a bit headachey but maybe talking with people has distracted me. I'm blowing a bit hot and cold on it anyway, we'll see.
I also spoke with the Dutch guy from last night, whose name is Yuri, and anyway, he's off to Belize tomorrow. He was telling me about Rapidos de Vacalar, and he cycled down there, which I don't think I would really want to do, but could maybe get a taxi, and apparently you can put life jacket on and float down the rapids, or you can hire a kayak apparently, it's only 100 I mean obviously if I'm not feeling very well blah blah blah but it's a possibility although I can almost kind of feel myself just wanting to get away from here if I start to feel better or that's a bit irrational.
He also said there might be a collectivo from here to Xpujil. So maybe I should ask a reception about that tomorrow.
Although it feels a bit of a shame I am kind of thinking and some of the conversation tonight has sort of reinforced some of my existing thoughts that you can only see so many ruins and whilel maybe seeing some of the more off the beaten track ones might be more exciting it's not worth getting bent out shape trying to see everything. I'm potentially going to see something near Xpujil and maybe Tikal and also while the can't find details anyway "new" Ixcabel might be cool, chac itself is only off the beaten track for me here as a non driver - it is frequently and trivially accessed by cruise passengers on tours from the cruise port.
Anyway, bed. If I do feel 90%+ in the morning I will probably toy with rapid more than an excursion to chac but we'll see how it looks in the morning.
Didn't sleep that well. Woke up very sweaty and maybe a bit feverish quite a bit. Clearly not doing something as "faffy" as trying to get to chac. This sucks but if I am feeling under the weather that can't be helped. On plus side whether down to echidnea or not I don't obviously seem to have a cold.
It feels like forever since I've been well but of course it has been two nights and one full day. I can't help wondering if I'm getting "too old" but that is probably ridiculous and just the emotional shittiness of being ill.
1045 had breakfast. Forgot to say yday that "owner chap" is Spanish, had lived in Brighton for years and probably isn't owner as he is apparently just working here for the winter as he lives in a Gruyere-cheese 150 year old family house in Spain and it leaks like crazy. He was talking with us for part of the time last night.
I have fleece on BTW. I don't feel terrible right now. I think I may have been a bit hungry before. Right hip hurts a little but it does sometimes and that could easily be in part the tent mattress.
Left wrist hurts a bit and I do feel a slight but persistentish tension in chest.
FWIW just checked and there are no Tren Maya services from Chetuaml (airport, but I think that is the only Xhetumal stop) to Xpujil tomorrow, and I am guessing other days too but not checked, so using it as an alternative to buses with crappy after dark arrivals is not an option.
1119 checked booking and I probably could extend here another night. On one hand this is feeling a bit silly. OTOH I am mildly ill and need to hole up somewhere and I am here and at least it is cheap. I do wonder if the tent is making it worse but maybe not and it is at least private and I can shuffle and sweat and get up in the night etc without disturbing anyone.
Stomach feels a bit rough, don't know why. Coffee is not sitting very well. I was going to have a shower but I kind of can't face drying odd with never properly dry viscose towel - stuff is just not drying well in this climate with no real sun, I guess.
Trouble is that all the remaining stuff I maybe want to do here like chac and ixcabel is "hard" /stressful enough that I don't want to do it feeling shit. I half wonder if i ahould eg go on to chetumal and get an aircon private with a proper bes and maybe wander round the town a little bit which is probably not so big a deal while feeling under the weather, then maybe come back here. But would I come back here? And would I have the balls to do these "hard" things? Also it feels like just maybe -though I have not mentioned it, since I am not sure I am well enough -I might find someone here to split cost of a taxi to ixcabel or something.
1306 have extended another night so now leaving Fri. This in some ways feels like I am wasting time but if I am ill I am ill and at least it is cheap. I hope being in the tent isn't making it worse but it probably isn't. At least it is private. Had rather crappy phone call with mum asking her opinion on this and got mostly platitudes about how it is nicer to be in a room etc, she clearly has the wrong end of the stick about where I am (acting like it is the middle of nowhere). She did seen to think being in nicer surrounding might help me get better quicker but was hardly very definite. And I also suspect she imagines it to be harsher here than it is. And I do at least have the shared fridge and quite nice gadden which I wouldn't have in a hotel or something.
Going to go for a bit of a walk.
I do also kind of wonder if somewhat irrationally I am going to be bored/sick of Bacalar by the time I am better and not want to stay and faff with these possible excursions. I
maybe can't spell it but I couldn't find anything about Ixcabel on web. But then the other night when sitting on public pier I was thinking it would be good to stay an extra night and go for another swim and so on before moving on.
1636 Back after lying on bed. I went out for a little bit of a wander. I took my fleece with me. I've had it on. I was feeling a bit cold. I wandered down to the Muele Munisipal, which is next to the other public pier. This one just had a muddy path down to the small area at the side of the lake. It's practically next to the other pier, but it only costs 10 pesos to go into this one, although it's not as nice. Anyway, I did it just for something to do.
I actually started to feel warm at this point, so I took the fleece off. I wasn't sure what to do. It started to spit slightly, so I thought I'd maybe go and get some fruit or something. Actually, what I kind of thought was maybe I could get something healthy-ish to eat, but that was going to be a bit satisfying. If it wasn't too much fuss, I might cook myself some rice, but I really don't want to get into that. Anyway, I went down to Darleny and I thought, Well, buy some bread and ham and have some sandwiches, but there were no prices on anything. So I trogged down into town to one of the supermarkets near El Valiente and I got some there, I broke a 500, trogged back to the hostel and have had a couple of sandwiches. Walking into town and back wasn't agonising but it felt like an effort. So I guess I'm definitely not 100% and yes it probably isn't a good idea for me to be going trying to get off to Chac or whatever.
I am feeling a bit fed up, but as I've probably said, endlessly, I've only actually been sick for a day or two, it just feels like forever. There's no reason to think I won't be feeling better soon, maybe even tomorrow, who knows. And there's nothing I can do about it.
Did notice earlier - I have a photo and a video - that was actually a kind of little lizard hiding inside one of the outer bits of the tent structure. The fabric must double back on itself to make a sort of tunnel, perhaps around a pole or something. I'm not sure. And you can see from one side there's the shadow of this lizard, but it is inside because if you look around the other side it's not there at all.
1928 on terrace. Had shower and cleaned teeth. Decided not to change top or socks. Since I only have one dirty top I am not going to wash tonight.
Not feeling terrible but stomach vaguely bloaty. Yes had 8ish sandwiches but still, not ideal. Some loose bms but really solid one first thing this morning. May go to bed in an hour or so.
2215 Back in the tent, I was just intending to sit on the terrace and read for a little bit with some water and then go to bed early, but I ended up speaking to a German guy who's off back home tomorrow. He has spent a lot of time in Guatemala and I'm seriously tempted - it's something I'd sort lf considered anyway - to do maybe a two-week loop from Palenque through Flores, Tikal and Yakche?. I haven't got forever but you know there's probably time for that if I ever start feeling better. I feel a bit headachey but maybe talking with people has distracted me. I'm blowing a bit hot and cold on it anyway, we'll see.
I also spoke with the Dutch guy from last night, whose name is Yuri, and anyway, he's off to Belize tomorrow. He was telling me about Rapidos de Vacalar, and he cycled down there, which I don't think I would really want to do, but could maybe get a taxi, and apparently you can put life jacket on and float down the rapids, or you can hire a kayak apparently, it's only 100 I mean obviously if I'm not feeling very well blah blah blah but it's a possibility although I can almost kind of feel myself just wanting to get away from here if I start to feel better or that's a bit irrational.
He also said there might be a collectivo from here to Xpujil. So maybe I should ask a reception about that tomorrow.
Although it feels a bit of a shame I am kind of thinking and some of the conversation tonight has sort of reinforced some of my existing thoughts that you can only see so many ruins and whilel maybe seeing some of the more off the beaten track ones might be more exciting it's not worth getting bent out shape trying to see everything. I'm potentially going to see something near Xpujil and maybe Tikal and also while the can't find details anyway "new" Ixcabel might be cool, chac itself is only off the beaten track for me here as a non driver - it is frequently and trivially accessed by cruise passengers on tours from the cruise port.
Anyway, bed. If I do feel 90%+ in the morning I will probably toy with rapid more than an excursion to chac but we'll see how it looks in the morning.
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