He asked me after he left, "what the hell just happened" I replied "I think our lives just took a sharp left hand turn!" Friends for years, lovers only a short time, but we knew our lives were now intertwined and that changes to both our lives were going to happen. What started out as a weekend celebrating the wedding of our friends, ended with a goodbye at the airport and I'll be down to the desert soon to see you. After a month of calls, many text and emails, it was obvious that a long distance romance was not in the cards and no matter how hard I tried to free up my time, more and more kept happening to keep me in Breckenridge. After a long phone converstation one night while he was on his way to Tuscon to his winter home in the desert, ready for a winter of mountain biking the email came "want a ski buddy!" Of course I said yes! Within a week I was back at the DIA picking him up for an extended stay. Funny how following your heart can take you down a rode less traveled and opens you to the opportunities that love presents.