Tabuleiro to BH

Last night, Renata offered me a ride back with them to BH. They were only here for the weekend. I could stay here for another day or 2 but I can't pass up the free ride, saving me $50! After breakfast I packed up my tent but before we began the drive to BH, we stopped at a natural swimming pool five minutes away. It was a great spot and we spent a few hours here. There were some high cliffs to jump off, which is always fun. We had lunch in Conceiao before we hit the high road to BH. We stopped at a great view point, that I wished I could have stopped at on my way here on the bus. Once in BH, they dropped me off right in front of my hotel, Madrid. They had a cheap room for me and I took that.
        I didn't do much else that night but the action began after I crashed. I was lying on my bed sheet for a while before I crashed and actually went under the sheet. Half an hour later I was itchy all over my torso and neck. I got up and looked in the mirror, 17 huge mosquito like bites, but these weren't mosquitoes. These were the dreaded bedbugs! I hate these things, though thankfully I don't have a lot of experience with them. There were 2 beds in my room so I went to the other bed and tried to sleep on top of the sheet. I also sprayed the bed with Deet. This seemed to help and they only bit me on my legs a little. I put hydrocortizone on the other bites and they were mostly gone by morning. Hydrocortizone is a life saver. That shit is amazing for any bug bites, rashes, redness and itchiness. Sure it's got a steroid in it and you're not supposed to use it more than 4 times in a day but I find after one application that's usually enough. That said I have some reoccuring bug bites which is common for me. Sometimes a bug bite in a sensitive area like a finger, wrist, foot or somewhere bony, last longer and get periodically itchy. I find leech bites and tick bites can itch off and on for weeks. I forgot to mention about a week ago, I pulled a tick from under my thigh on the bus to Caratinga. It was easy to pull out and wasn't that fat, indicating that it had not been feeding on me long, however, that damn bite still gets itchy now and again. All these bites and I haven't even been to the Amazon yet!