2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/triplefrancis/rss.xml in July 2007, I quit my job, bought an around the world ticket and set off in search of the perfect Pimm's Cup, the prettiest older women, the true land of the free, the best beach, a place to live, a place to die, a place to have my ashes scattered, a wife or two, a good night's sleep, and great food and wine on the cheap. All it made me want to do was to keep moving and see the rest of the world. Three years after my return, battered by the stock market, low on cash, it is time to go back to work. But not before I make a run down to Central America and pick up 6 new passport stamps. We're back! Read at your own risk, knowing that it wlll make more sense if you read the days as they happen, rather than working backwards. http://www.getjealous.com/triplefrancis http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688177&go=triplefrancis Well, this is it. I jumped out of bed at 4:30 in the morning and showered and packed it up one last time in a flash and went out and caught the public bus at 5:10 to the airport for under a dollar, and I don’t know what time I got there or how long I stood in line or whether I was hungry or crabby, or what going through security or any of that was like. I was out on my feet, though not unpleas... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688177&go=triplefrancis Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688176&go=triplefrancis The last day of my tenth week was a better than expected travel day but also more frustrating in a different way as it was also my first real experience with the public transport system here instead of paying big bucks for the tourist shuttles, else riding Victoria’s coat tails. Costa Ricans, or Ticos as they call themselves, fancy themselves to be far superior to their neighbors that I have t... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688176&go=triplefrancis Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688175&go=triplefrancis And now it’s fucking cloudy on my last what was supposed to be non-travel day here. My last beach day of the trip. My last sunset into the sea of the trip. The last day of me doing this for a long long time unless I win the lottery or get a job. Like as in not partially cloudy but as in there are no shadows cloudy and I am pissed that paid for my room after breakfast instead of heading up th... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688175&go=triplefrancis Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688174&go=triplefrancis Funny, this phase of my life, whatever you want to call it, began on an a afternoon in May 2006 when I climbed up out of the Metro stop at Chatalet and saw Paris for the first time. It is one of the defining moments of my life, something I will never forget, and this trip, these trips would have never have happened without that moment, and this was on my mind most of the day as I lay on the beach... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688174&go=triplefrancis Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688173&go=triplefrancis Julie and Chantel were here having breakfast when I went down for the first cup of coffee, and we chatted for a bit, at the table behind them was a dark skinned girl who would end up being named Rita. She came in late last night with two boys and left them both disappointed at the front door, a fact she seemed oblivious to. She is from near San Jose where she teaches English to teachers and want... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688173&go=triplefrancis Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688172&go=triplefrancis Wake at 7, cup after cup of free coffee up to the room, worry about all the sugar I get down here from that, the fruit from breakfast, the daily can of ice cold mango nectar that I down in two orgasmic gulps before I have even reached the sidewalk for two seconds, study the verb mostrar, longer yoga session than usual trying to work the travel day kinks and weird aches from the thin mattress out, ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2688172&go=triplefrancis Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2686443&go=triplefrancis After sleeping in fits and watching the sun rise up out of the Pacific, there were 5 people from 3 countries at Delicias arguing over what day of the week it was this morning over coffee. Several others had no opinion. Somehow I was convinced that it was Thursday, because I was convinced that it was Wednesday yesterday and I’ve never been so glad to be wrong. Getting an extra day was like Chr... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2686443&go=triplefrancis Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2686441&go=triplefrancis I’m worried about myself and not just because I keep having to run to the toilet today. I am worried because I am having fun. Bear with me. I wanted to film it, to take pictures, but I wasn’t going to be the guy who pulled the camera out. The moon was full and it had come up out of the sea red and huge, and Andrew from West Virginia got the fire started, as he does, and they came, and the ... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2686441&go=triplefrancis Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2686440&go=triplefrancis Let’s see, there was the Salvadoran girl from Austin, the yoga guy from Chicago, Fiona and Emer from Cork, Thomas from Denmark, Steve and Nick from Seatlle, Iz crashed out on her sarong, Neils from Germany who is living here in a tent, forget the dude from Sao Paolo with the guitar’s name, a flute player, a few bongo players and a group of guys who sang wonderfully amid the maybe 30 or so sitt... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2686440&go=triplefrancis Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2686439&go=triplefrancis On the first day of the third month of my trip, I wake up to the sounds of a girl having sex in the communal bathroom across the hall at three in the morning. I was in a bit of a haze from the vicodin I had taken to deal with the throb of my smashed toes that had me in and out of sleep and I wasn’t sure if I was dreaming or not, but Isabelle was brought out of sleep by it, too, and there was th... http://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2686439&go=triplefrancis Sun, 8 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT