The south of France was beautiful and the following gallery is a collection of favourite photos from the week.
The last couple of days of the France trip, we did some day trips to Nice, walking around the old city having lunch on the square, a little shopping, afternoon coffee and pastry.
Cuchara Colorado
The anniversary of the day before I met Stephen.
The year was 2001 and I was living with my brother and his family during a 6 month visit to the USA. That Thursday 15th March, 2001, I was packing and preparing for a weekend trip to Los Angeles. Jeremy and I were taking a road trip. I had met Jeremy a couple of months before and we would hang out together on Castro, go to movies, we even went to Discovery camp together. That weekend, it was his birthday and we we getting ready to drive south to LA to see West Hollywood. When he asked me a couple of weeks earlier, I just couldn’t say no. A trip to West Hollywood. I had been to LA once before, staying in Anaheim, with family to go to Disneyland. I couldn’t wait.
The following day we were off and Jeremy and I were in the car and on the edge of our seats about to jump out of skin. We were both excited driving down the highway toward LA. At first the Hollywood hills came into view and then the Hollywood Sign. We were on Santa Monica Blvd, which was being street-scaped at the time. New roads, new trees, new footpaths, but it was still all abuzz. Traffic flowed and we were there, early evening Los Angeles and in the middle of West Hollywood.
It was Friday night and we were out in the middle of Boy’s Town. This place was no Perth, there are more Gay bars in West Hollywood than people that go to gay bars in Perth (:-) (laughs). We were out on the town, a bar crawl, checking out everything. It was about 10.00pm and we headed further into West Hollywood, up to a bar called “The Gold Coast”. It was (and still is) an old neighbourhood bar that was pretty busy this one night. It was here I met Stephen. I was talking with someone and I saw Stephen looking at me. He smiled, I smiled back. I went outside for a cigarette (I quit since then), Stephen followed me out.
… and that was the night that started it all …
It is now on the eve of our Anniversary 9 years later. We have been everywhere together, traveled extensively and enjoyed life. We have changed jobs and careers, moved across county and now live in a great city in a row house right in the middle of Washington DC. We share our lives with everyone around us, and everyone is welcome in our home and in our lives. We love our family and our friends and we love that we get to be involved in our community. We live life to the fullest and enjoy every moment that we spend together. We watch the seasons change as we grow older together and think how beautiful the changes are and yet we still have a lifetime to adore one another as we have done for the past 9 years.
It has been such a ride and I can’t wait until the next journey.
Happy Anniversary Sweetheart … may the next nine years be as wild as ever.
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Snowpocalypse ! or Snowmageddon !
This has been an incredible snow week and have never seen anything like this.
We had a large snow Friday/Saturday which finally stopped early afternoon. During this reprieve, the city came alive and people were out of their houses and enjoying the white city scape. There was even a flash snowball fight at Dupont Circle which attracted (in my estimate) at least a thousand people. The onslaught of snowballs was incredible. Even the news teams were out covering it while getting pelted with snow balls. Click to continue »
Overturn "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
I have been listening to some comments from opponents on the overturning of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, so l let me see if I understand you …
.. so it’s ok to be in the Armed Forces if one is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender as long as one doesn’t tell you that one gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
Come on people, you cant really be serious !!
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No more Champagne and the fireworks are through (yes this is the beginning of an Abba song) and a great way to introduce a New Year. Happy New Year to All (buon anno a tutti) and what could be better than bringing in the New Year than on the rooftops of Roma, Italy with a 360 degree view of explosions underneath a clear midnight sky and a blue moon.
Rome is still a favourite of mine and after spending Christmas and New Year here, I love it even more so. The first few days of this trip had us staying at the Hotel Raphael, one street behind the Piazza Navona and central to everything. The Piazza in itself is fantastic with its Bernini Fountains and the Sant ‘Agnese Nin Agone Church, except at this time of year it is crowded with a street fair/carnival of vendors and tourists. No matter how crazy it got, whether noon or midnight, there was always solitude in the fantastic Richard Myers rooms in the Raphael. Click to continue »
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