i was reading through my inca trail posts on my very first blog and some of the stories were making me laugh and laugh. this one was begging to be told again.

i had a very hard time falling asleep the night before the hike began due to anticipation and nervousness. i woke up after only a few hours of sleep, in the throes of a horrible nightmare about vampires. the nightmare wouldn’t stop, so i lay awake in the dark, trying to make the vampires go away.

all of a sudden, i heard murmuring coming from the bed next to me and then my roommate joan let out two loud long screams.

i didn’t know what to do. what if someone came running, thinking i was killing her. i finally said her name softly and she went back to sleep.

i, on the other hand, was now wide-awake.

when i told her about this in the morning, she said that she was having a nightmare about witches. when she screamed, the witch was attempting to drive a rusty iron nail into her neck.

(did i mention how perfectly suited we were as roommates? there was much giggling.)