Bugs, again!!

Ach!!!

I can't take the bugs... I was on top of a place called "The Beauty Spot." This is a mountain top free of foliage which is a beautiful vista for sunsets and sunrises, but when I got there and pitched my tent, it was as if, that day, that every bug "egg" hatched and sought to descend upon the hikers like zombies in a George Romero movie. (e.g. Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, etc.)

Since that spot, every possible flying and buzzing thing has chased me through the woods and this one bug, I don't have any idea what the hell it is, buzzes in a circle around me as I walk. When I stop, it flees, but when I start walking again, it comes back. Waving my arms and screaming like a lunatic doesn't help, but it does keep the other hikers entertained. They get in your ears, in your eyes, your nose and they squash on your skin so that the end of the day ritual is to wash the bug parts off of you.

Then of course, as you are eating, they dive bomb your ramen noodles like a WWII kamizake pilot. After a while, you stop picking them out or even looking at your food and just eat them thinking, "protein is good."

If you do the wise thing and try to just ignore them, eventually they will stop bothering you. But that is hard when you are constantly attacked with sorties of giant black buzzing things that get in your hair and your various orifices.

I have a bug net...it looks "sissy-like" but I guess I'll have to try it soon.

Ron