Home sweet home.

Well friends, I've been back home in Brum for a couple of days now. Would you believe, it's raining? Obviously, it rained in Turrialba all the time, but this is a harsh, cold rain.

The journey back was pretty uneventful. Left San José just after 1pm...

...blitzed through Atlanta...

...blitzed through Paris...

...and landed in BHX just after 2pm.

It hasn't been as emotionally overwhelming as I thought.

I'm really enjoying the quiet and the privacy. A few people on expedition were all "Oh, you'll miss everybody when you go back and you're in a quiet house by yourself". I can now say with complete and utter certainty: do I fuck.

I've just been pottering about really since: catching up with my stories (caught up with Agents of SHIELD and now working my way through Arrow); sorting out kit; had a couple of bottles of Hobgoblin which were delicious; and drinking tea. I appear to have missed that most of all. I can't seem to stop drinking nice, strong mugs of tea.

I went for a run around Brookvale Lake today. The whole "running in fresh air" thing seems like a good idea to continue with. I don't want to start paying for gym membership without a job, I don't want to get fat, and I have a beautiful lake at the end of my road, so I might as well use it. It's a long way from the coffee fields of CATIE, but it's still awesome and on my doorstep.

There's lots of other stuff I want to get done in the next few days. I don't really have much else to say for this blog. It's supposed to be about my Raleigh adventure, which is now kind of over. I might occasionally post something with the odd update from post-expedition life - the awesome job I'm going to get, the reunions I have with people, and the things mentioned here that I said I'll do.

The next post will be my photo albums from my adventure. I look forward to sharing them.

Pura Vida!