Posts in Category: United States
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Our November 2024 trip to Arizona continues as we leave the Phoenix area after spending a week with friends in Scottsdale enjoying some golf and a great day trip to the Desert Botanical Garden. We are now headed to the Tucson area which neither Alison or I have ever visited, despite many previous trips to […]
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Desert Botanical Garden – A Phoenix Gem
Most people automatically associate the word ‘desert’ with two things – aridity and searing heat. The first is correct and any place with less than 10 inches (250 mm.) of rain annually is technically a desert. However, the second is not. Of fourteen named deserts in North America, only three are considered ‘hot’ – the […]
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Walnut Canyon & Montezuma Castle
A few years ago Alison and I attended the SATW conference in El Paso and after it was over, spent a couple of weeks exploring as many of New Mexico’s national parks and monuments as we could. These included the well known sites of Carlsbad Cavern N.P. and White Sands and the hard to get […]
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We-Ko-Pa Saguaro Hole-by-Hole
In my first hole-by-hole post from Arizona Alison and I played the fantastic Raptor course at Gray Hawk. In this post we’ll take on the Saguaro course at We-Ko-Pa, rated the #1 public course in Arizona by many golf publications and theoretically a very different golf experience than the other 200 or so golf courses […]
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Grand Canyon Adventure
It had been many decades since my last visit to the Grand Canyon and Alison had never been, so on somewhat of a whim, we packed up our brand new Macan and headed straight from Nova Scotia to northern Arizona, a drive of some six days going all out with no real sightseeing stops on […]
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Gray Hawk Raptor – Hole by Hole
In my last hole by hole from Royal Birkdale I promised that the next review would be two time Ryder Cup host, the Brabazon course at The Belfry. While I did play the Brabazon course it was so wet that pull carts were not even allowed out and it was the first time in at […]
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Graceland – Touring Elvis’ Memphis Home
In my first post from Memphis Alison and I stayed at the legendary Peabody Hotel and enjoyed much of what there is to see in the downtown area. In this post we’ll leave the downtown and head south to spend some time with Elvis Presley. Christmas is a great time to visit Graceland, the colonial […]
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Memphis – A Quick Visit
For the 2023 holiday season, Alison and I opted to hope in the car and drive down to Alabama to play some golf on the RTJ Golf Trail. It would be a quick trip down with one exception, we wanted to spend a few days in Memphis. I had been there years ago on our […]
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Litchfield by the Sea – Why We Love It
As an avid golfer and lover of nature I have long be drawn to the Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina. Ok, you might get the golf, but the Mother Nature part? Since when was that one of Myrtle Beach’s big draws? Since always, if you know where to look and that is to the […]