23 hours on a bus is a really long time - and not done yet!

hi everybody.
well, here i am in lovely feira de santana, bahia. the bus ride here, which i was told would be between 15 and 20 hours turned out to be 23. the first 17 were fine, but the last 6 hours were really tough, and now i have to wait here in the bus station until 12:50 to catch another 5-6 hour bus to lençois, where i plan to find a pousada, take a shower, and maybe nap a little. i´m really really tired, so i´m hoping to sleep like a baby who sleeps really well... like ayla? was it her who could take a productive nap in the middle of the living room? i don´t remember. anyway, i hope to sleep on the bus.

i arrived here at 5:30pm, so by the time i´d bought my bus tickets to lençois and dropped off my stuff in the guarda-volumes, it was dark. i tried taking a little walk around town, but the busy part ended pretty quickly and i stuck out like a sore thumb, being the only white person in the vicinity, so i climbed back to the bus station, where i´ve been ever since. i watched a little tv, read a little, and then decided to take advantage of the internet while it was still open (it closes at 11, so i´ll have to find something else to do for almost two hours after that). i considered getting a room and staying here for the night, but i really want to get to the park, and i´m going to have to leave there friday night because they don´t have a bus saturday morning, so i´ll be spending a good part of saturday here in lovely feira de santana, and didn´t want to stay here longer than i had to.

i downloaded skype, but the microphone here doesn´t work, so i called my grandma twice but she couldn´t hear me. then i tried texting my mother´s cell phone from skype, but she can´t respond so i don´t know if that worked or not.

i´m really tired. i think i´ll go try to find some food or something to keep me awake. for four and a half more hours. lovely.

this park better be good. i think it will be, i´m just a little sleep deprived right now.

goodnight and enjoy sleeping in your comfy beds!