Blogs :: the first couch
I arrived in Salvador to meet up with my first couch surfing experience on Tuesday evening. Walking out of the airport baggage terminal, Victor was already waiting, 30 minutes early and recognized me immediately. Car parked on the curve 5 steps away, I tossed my bags and we went off to grab some grub. Salvador is a seaside city full of seafood dishes so he ordered up some boiled oysters and shrimp pastries to compliment the beer. A good start to my first couch surfing experience if you ask me.
A good, interesting, half un-American conversation later, we headed to his apartment literally 1-block from the beach, palm trees and all. Both having to wake up early, it was quick to bed. Or not. I struggled. And struggled. At first it was the mosquitoes, I'd forgotten I had return to a summer, humid, bug filled environment and came very unprepared so I put as many clothes back on as possible without dying from heat exhaustion and tried again. No real luck. Combined with being in a new place and having my sleep schedule used to 4am, I think I finally wondered into dreamland by the time Victor woke up that morning, scoring myself all of 2 hours of sleep.
It's 7:30am, today is going to be a long day...
insects, Brasil, Salvador, couchsurfing, beaches
Posted By:
Brendon
7/8/2009