Candid Kiss

March doesn't just mark my birthday: it also reminds me of when DW and I first started dating. As she used to put it, "I didn't have a gift for Ross' birthday, so... ."

That was 37 years ago.

Within a few weeks of being together, we decided to head off for a long weekend in New York City, and we've been travelling the globe ever since. As little ago as last week, DW and I were contemplating the idea of doing a cycling trip in the Burgundy region of France, in May.

Our most-recent trip was in January, in Costa Rica, and DW and I have learned that we travel very well together. In the 37 years that we've been by one another's sides, we've never grown tired of our adventures, never become bored with one another.

While on Playa Grande, on the Pacific Coast, one of our friends caught DW and me in a candid moment. It's become one of my favourite photos of the trip. I wasn't aware that Bee had snapped the photo until she shared it on our Signal group chat, several days after she captured it.

We've since decided that we're not going to France; at least, not as early as May, and probably not this year. But wherever our next destination is, we know we'll have fun doing it, together.

Happy Friday!