Friday, September 11, 2009

Immunity

I think I am immune to the effects of high altitudes. Perhaps it is my years of living with lofty goals that have prepared me for life at 3326 meters. While I should be extremely tired, short of breath, light headed and have no appetite, I have been the complete opposite: energized, alert and ravanous. I have been drinking cocoa tea by the bucket loads so you´d think my frequent bathroom sprints would tire me out, but not yet. I am readying for a pre-trek trek to Saqsaywaman (say it in a way that sounds like a sing song version of "sexy woman"), where I might find out that my immunity to the high altitude is in fact fictious. But whatever happens, it had better not stand in my way of trying my first alpaca-burger!