Frolicking Friday #3

Post­ing this at the end of a very fan­tas­tic Fri­day! We hope you sur­vived the short post-​​Memorial Week­end work­week and found bliss in what­ever your evening entailed.
Dusty and Jason are camp­ing out on the rainy San Juan islands this week­end while I’ll be stay­ing in town work­ing on a few projects. Next week­end will be the Gem­ini Camp­ing Trip which is always a fun time. Until then, here’s this week’s photo:

I took this photo of ScenicBoy Patrick 5 years ago today. Patrick was our first friend to ever strip down with us on a camp­ing trip. This was one of the last trips we went on together before he moved away to Japan for 3 years. He’s back in the U.S. now and hap­pily liv­ing with his amaz­ing boyfriend, Austin, who is also a fan of our blog and will hope­fully become a ScenicBoy him­self before the sum­mer is through.

Have a won­der­ful week­end, Adven­ture Peo­ple!! <3

Everglades to Key West

Jason and I have been together for just over 9 months now. He has become such a joy­ful light in my life and I can’t help but feel lucky to have found some­one that is so hand­some, polite and enjoys my crazy friends as much as me. I also feel for­tu­nate to know that he and Garet have formed a great friend­ship and fre­quently kick it with one another. I am happy to be shar­ing the first of many adven­tures to come…

Our trip began in Atlanta, Geor­gia, where Jason intro­duced me to his par­ents, his older brother and his brother’s part­ner. We spent a cou­ple days with the fam­ily and tour­ing the Dog­wood City, before hop­ping another plane bound for Miami. Know­ing we only had a few hours here, we imme­di­ately rented a car and drove to the beach. We drank mar­gar­i­tas in an orange themed restau­rant and watched the eye candy stroll by.

While ini­tially plan­ning this vaca­tion, we bud­geted a whole day to explor­ing Ever­glades National Park. Lead­ing up to the trip I knew there were two things that I really wanted to do here.  1) see a roseate spoon­bill in the wild, and 2) hold a baby alli­ga­tor. One of these wishes came true while on our tour through the Park. We stopped at a pond to watch wad­ing birds in their rook­eries and saw a bright pink spoon­bill in flight. Look for it in the first half of our video.

After dri­ving 4 hours over the bridges at con­nect the Florida Keys, we got to Key West and spent the rest of the evening explor­ing our hotel. This place was so fun and sexy! The rooms were fluffy and decked out with Aveta prod­ucts and homo­erotic art. The pool was right next to the restau­rant, there were two hot tubs, a steam room, sauna, gym and a video room for the most adven­tur­ous, and all this was cloth­ing optional. The Island House and its sexy staff really went out of their way to be the high­light of our trip.

Another fun adven­ture we did on this trop­i­cal get­away was The Blu Q Cruise. The crew on this cata­ma­ran were very knowl­edge­able and enter­tain­ing as they guided us, and bunch of other gay men, to the Key West National Wildlife Refuge. Here we snorkeled over a sea sponge gar­den and kayaked through a man­grove for­est, both things nei­ther of us had done before.

As I’m sure you know, Key West is a very gay friendly city. There was plenty for us to see and to expe­ri­ence. The gay bars were fun, but very mixed. Most places had more cougars than gay boys; but for good rea­son, there were sexy go-​​go boys everywhere!  We found the best food at the Pink Flamingo Café and Shor Amer­i­can Seafood Grill. On our final day in par­adise, I finally got to hold a cud­dly lit­tle baby alli­ga­tor at the aquarium.