JOE TAKES A TRIP
The reason that Joe did not join us is that he has taken a little vacation. He just needed to get away from assorted problems here--not from me, I assure you!--and we both thought a change of environment might help, since he is so often alone at home due to his illness.
He had some trepidation about traveling alone, not having done that since he became handicapped some seventeen years ago. But I arranged for wheelchairs at the airports and booked him for two weeks at a small gay and lesbian resort on St. Croix.
Well, aside from some problems with the heat, he is having a wonderful time. The first day he met a very nice gay couple from Ohio, and they became fast friends, eating together every day and seeing a bit of the island.
They returned to Ohio last week and they and I have exchanged some e-mails since. They are originally from Seattle, and one of them used to bartend at the Jade Pagoda there--ring a bell to any of our Pacific Northwest contingent?
The last few days Joe his been palling around with a lady who works at the resort (it being off-season, there are very few guests), and she had been showing him the sites most tourists don't see, winding roads through the jungle, a mountain top from which you can see Puerto Rico. We are already planning to book a trip there for both of us in January.
There is a webcam at the Sand Castle where he is staying and
here is the link. If you click it right now, it will be black (it's nighttime, folks), but try it tomorrow and you will see the beach and perhaps Joe taking a morning dip. I will attach below a sunset I downloaded last week.
Joe is coming back on Wednesday, and I think we will both need to spend the weekend hugging and making up for lost time. Two weeks of the bachelor life has been fun, but I miss him and he misses me.
He will be so happy to learn that Tomovoz thought of him when he was packing to come here.
