POSTCARDS FROM SEA WITCH

It seems to be a tradition unfolding as the Sea Witch Festival and my birthday are being planned every year now. This was the third year the clan and I went, and I'm fine with that as I love Hallowe'en. We already booked for next year. Besides, who gets a whole parade for their birthday??? The parade was another fun one, a three-hour parade, and then some libations in pubs afterwards. Many good costumes by parade revealers and in the parade, great bands, and boys everywhere. We stay at friends Garrett and Franks B&B, The Rehoboth Guest House, to give them the business. I highly recommend their place for an extended stay. Do they ever put out a nice morning breakfast!!! And all-day coffee room, with coffee and teas, and everything one needs for entertaining at your fingertips, great and warm staff, and you meet the other guest. We have met the nicest people there and everyone mingles. The lesbians we met there this summer and hung out with, booked to coincide with us, and returned just to see us and joined in on my birthday drunken mess. And as you'll see Garrett loves Halloween too! Some of the snaps...

Loved these floating candles in the hallway Garrett did!

The view at night out my balcony window.

My Sea Witch/hag get up for the parade. One of three looks this year.

And this was a houseguest named Reed. Yeah. If camp counselors all looked like this, I might have went! He did however enjoy my balcony with the colored lights. And he even had a jock strap on under those shorts....ahem....Let me see if I can continue...

We caught Roxy Overbrook's cabaret at the Blue Moon. And scene in town at the parade...

When at the Purple Parrot it's a thing to post a dollar bill in the joint somewhere with a note on it. There must be thousands on the walls, ceilings, you name it. This one was right in front of me!!

But in my case after the weekend, I'm still alive, wink wink....

BEACH LIFE

The first vacation of the summer season is always the hardest one to return to reality from, especially if it's at a beach location. This summer the first vacation was to the very gay friendly Rehoboth Beach with the clan and Capital Street Duo. Well...the first extended stay for a peroid of time since Memerioal day. It was long overdue since the last vacation to Barbados...and much needed after such a long stretch, and the sometimes-stressful world we live in these days. Most day were filled with just relaxing on the beach, and a little shopping... which the nights were filled with dinners and hot spots around town for us social gays. The weather couldn't have been better, with only two days of rain. But the beach is always a good spot for me. I always feel like a spent a week at a day spa when I return. First the vitamin D is good for you for a certain period of time, I always feel healthier looking when I take in some sun and feel the warmth on my skin, and the beach is incredibly invigorating because it engages your senses in a scientifically proven way to reset your brain and body. The ocean air is packed with negative ions that boost serotonin, and accelerate your ability to absorb oxygen, which stabilizes your mood, feelings of well-being and happiness. The sea view induces a meditative state known as Blue Mind, and the rhythmic waves act as a calming pink noise. Not to mention walks in sand and the sand rubbing your skin in the waves, acts like a natural exfoliator. I have been going to Rehoboth since the early 90's and have yet ever tire of it. Plus we got to see our friends who own the guest house we stay in. I later saw them at the Woods a week later as they also have a site there. Here are some snaps from around Rehomo...

My own private balcony at the guest house. Nice for a small, happy hour before heading out. We met a swell and fun lesbian couple staying at the house too, and man were they fun. We all exchanged numbers and have been keeping in touch. They will be joining us at the house back in October for Sea Witch.

The gratuitous rabbit picture for Tundra Bunny. I don't know what was going on, but I'd never seen so many rabbits about!!! At night especially, they were skittering about everywhere. On one walk we counted upwards of 65 bunny sightings.

Speaking of beach bunnies.

The legendary Blue Moon...the place to see and be seen for happy hour and this place gets packed from wall to wall and eventually spills out and over on to the sidewalk! If you want a rich man, this is the place to meet one kids. I'll be going back in August to catch up with that old cow Lady Bunny who's will be there with her show, Big Wig Energy.

One of my favorite place to dine, Houston-White Co.

And this place kids....well, it's where I get some of my, ohhhh, huh, houseboys from!!!! I met three guys, one from Turkey, one from Romania and another from Cypress. Not to mention danced my ass off. I have yet been disappointed.

And people wonder why I don't want to return from the beach.

WEEKEND POSTCARDS

 

Yes, back to reality for a two-day work week, how bad can it be? The time away was rainy yes. But contrary to the rainy weekend, I know some might not like the beach in the rain, but not to worry...we pub hopped most days and had a picnic in the indoor patio at the AirBnB. Monday and Tuesday were glorious. The house was on the beach...at night I could smell the ocean and hear the surf from bed. That alone was worth the whole trip. 

The horseshoe crabs snap, seen after the storm and rains the night before, is for Tundra Bunny. I also heard in the early morning one day, a octopus was seen skimming across the sand heading back into the ocean. I wish I'd seen that.