Bedbugs in Wichita
Economy, ever the priority when traveling on a tight budget, there are just somethings not worth compromising. One thing is bugs. I’d prefer to sleep in a rental car than to snuggle into a mattress infested with parasitic creepy-crawlies waiting to come out and suck my blood while I sleep.
Fortunately, my partner took no convincing and bedbugs aren’t that difficult to spot. After checking in at the Motel 6 right on Rt 54 East of downtown, the clerk behind bullet-proof glass, the first red flag on this establishment, the writer I’m traveling with and I entering our room. I gave the bed a nudge with my knee revealing the box spring littered with molted insect skin and patches of human blood. By the headboard a 2 inch streak of dried blood on the wall and the room had an ode to feet funk in the air that tickled my gag reflex.
Needless to say we didn’t unpack, but stayed long enough to use the wireless connection to find another hotel and gladly ponied up another $20-30 for clean sheets.
