right, i have 18 minutes of internet time left in san antonio public library in texas until the town shuts down for thanksgiving, so let me do a quick summary of the last few weeks.
well, i am now gearing up to cross into mexico, and i bought this book in austin which has scared me stupid. i bought some chloraquine in a wal-mart, and it cost $98!!
after charleston i teamed up with a fat swiss girl for a few days and we dropped by savannah and then stayed a couple of nights in the tree houses at the hostel in the forest which was amazing! i left her there, as far as i know she's still there :).
then i sped by st augustine florida which is the oldest town in the US, and feels like it. its just like the mediterranean, tho a bit tourist-heavy.
i tried to drive through biloxi mississippi: the highway just stopped though, with the bridge ahead only half standing. on the opposite shore you could clearly see skyscrapers half subsided, and junk everywhere. i did actually drive through new orleans, tho i didn't stop. it is a mess. you all saw it on the news anyway, so you know how it is -- but it's pretty bizarre to pass through. oh i forgot mobile alabama where i had some amazing oysters, and dothan alabama where i didnt bother to attend the national peanut festival. i spent a few days in lafayette louisiana, the heart of cajun country, with lots of good food (crawfish, gumbo, etc) and tried to track down some french speakers which is hard. learned some interesting history of the place too. its certainly a long way from the McDs wal-mart strip-malled USA of stereotype.
i stayed in austin texas a long weekend: there is an incredible live music scene there. every night of the week, every bar in town has some form of live music. and often free! and $2 budweiser -- even i'll drink it at that price. its a cool city too, a little liberal dot in an otherwise conservative republican state. oh and props to the girls in southside bbq in elgin who were the first people i met who actually laughed at my accent. "wow, you're actually from england? that's so amazing!" ;)
a guy at austin hostel tipped me off to global freeloaders. its wicked -- way to get free accomodation! so i'm trying to use it to arrange my first nights in mexico, with some woman who wants to practise her french, bizarrely enough! and she offered me a cup of proper english tea that her english friend sent from leicestershire -- how can i resist that. i'm getting a bit US culture-tired actually. miss home! ;)
the moustachioed lady tells me i have five minutes remaining. hope everyone's well, think i better sign off, wish me luck in crazy mexico, not too sure when i'll next get to the net to update!
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Ouch, $98 is a lot for Chloroquine. Bare in mind that there is chloroquine resistance in some malaria strains (in fact it's pretty much useless in many countries), but Mexico is one of the few places that it's still a bit useful.
If you go to other prophylactics (no sniggering at the back please), then I'd strongly advise avoiding Larium (mefloquine) especially - according to my non-scientific research - for anyone who has taken psychedelics.
I think doxycycline is good, because it seems to be the only anti-malarial which doesn't mess with my head.
Always bare in mind that anti-malarials are nearly always cheaper (sometimes ten times cheaper, in my experience) in the malarial areas themselves.
Have fun!
Tim.
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