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I don’t know what it is about me, but whenever it’s mosquito season, or I travel to somewhere tropical, the mosquitos devour my skinny-ass ALIVE! In Beijing a few years ago I remember counting 24 bites in 3 days. I thought that was a lot.

I just returned from a three-week backpacking trip to South America. After my first week in Peru I counted at least 30 mosquito bites. Yikes! I am usually pretty good about ignoring the pain of mosquito bites. But oh dear me 30 bites is a whole other story.

But it doesn’t end there! Two more weeks along the west coast of South America brought a couple dozen more bites. And on my last day there, 20 more bites! Through my pants! All on the right side of my body!

Oh man the last 2 weeks has been really uncomfortable. Also, it’s winter and the air here is dry has heck. So i’m painfully itchy and have dry cracking skin all over my body. Hooray!

Protip: eat less bananas… makes you doubly tasty to the mosquitos…

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