http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com Jen and Jonno's World Tour 2006 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:20:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en we're back in london, safe and sound. it's only our second full day back, and already i feel the need to get about the business of finding a flat, finding a job, getting a life up and running again. thereis a definite element of culture shock - i'm ... http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/10/17/learning-to-love-london/ it's 4:00 am and i wake to the thunder of rain on a tin roof, the crash of swollen surf outside the window. a gecko chirps from the dark corner of the ceiling and i realise how very much i will miss that oddly comforting sound. this is ... http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/10/12/home-james/ i've not known what to write about the past few days. i'm having a hard time putting words to this feeling: more ache than nostalgia, more nostalgia than grief, more let-down than wistful, more overwhelmed than let-down. i don't know how to describe my current state of mind, ... http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/10/11/the-beginning/ we're winding up our journey in the gringo-filled beach town of playa tamarindo. we've decided to spend the last week on holiday, definitely *not* traveling, with no larger agenda than topping up our tans. and playa tamarindo is defintely a holiday kind of town- overpriced and touristy ($4/hr ... http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/10/10/yogurt-and-sunsets-as-therapy/ we came to the town of la fortuna for one reason and one reason only - volcan arenal. there aren't many opportunities on this planet to visit an active volcano, so i figure you should take them when you get them. so we came. i've been lucky enough to ... http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/10/08/volcano-viewing/ when i was a kid and we went on our summer camping tours or family vacations, my dad always made us keep a journal. every day, whether we wanted to or not, we had to write something in a diary. at the time, i considered it just another ... http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/10/07/my-memories/ forgot to mention: our tico (i.e. costa rican) kayak guide the other evening? a red sox fan. we commiserated over the sad end to the season. sox (love and) sorrow is everywhere. http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/10/07/another-sad-sox-fan/ it's funny the habits and interests you pick up from your parents without even realising it. for example, j has long since learned to live with my incessant need to identify every plant and flower. i spent the better part of the inca trail stopping to examine cactii, ... http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/10/05/wildlife-watching-on-the-osa/ we're here in puerto jimenez, a one lone dusty street kind of town, with nothing to do or see in the town itself. but it's a jumping off point for the corcovado national park and the golfo dulce, and that's why we're here as well. this evening we're ... http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/10/03/patience-in-port-jim/ i was reflecting today on how my arrival here in costa rica has been a long time in coming - 16 years, in fact. let me explain. after my summer as an exchange student in paraguay turned me onto travel and southern culture, i returned home and immediately began looking ... http://worldtour.jensdenofiniquity.com/2006/10/02/long-time-coming/