Tag: #gaytravel

Photo by Yingchou Han on Unsplash Traveling is hard. But traveling without knowing the language is harder. Back in June, I visited Guadalajara, Mexico, and I had a wonderful time. While I was there to experience Guadalajara Pride in the second-largest city in Mexico and possibly the biggest gay community in the country, I also experienced another great adventure. Aka, traveling around a country without knowing the language. Traveling without the ability to translate is a tricky task, but it’s not impossible....

In my adult gay life, I’ve known Austin, Texas as the lonely liberal blue dot in all of the Lone Star State.  My vacations in Texas before this year have been reserved to a birthday weekend and a weekend of pride, both in Austin, since that’s what us gays outside of Texas have been told.  When visiting, all we heard from Austinites was that there’s no other place we were welcome, besides their city. Texas is a big state to...

I definitely know when it’s time to relax and when it’s time to crank up the relaxation several notches.  After having house guests for two solid months, the choice was to abandon my humble abode and enjoy an overdue respite and crank up the pampering to eleven, a break from it all that was to be a little more special than sitting on my own back patio. Living in Southern Florida, I often look toward The Keys to help...