Posts in Category: United States
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Myakka River State Park – Experience the Canopy Walk
This is another in my occasional series on what many people including the Florida State Park promoters, call ‘the real Florida’. Yes that too has become a cliche, but trust me many of Florida’s many state parks are real treasures and the antithesis of the Disneyfied version of the state that most visitors, for better […]
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John D. MacArthur Beach State Park – The Real Florida
I get tired of people who know nothing about Florida and bemoan ‘It’s all fake. There’s no natural beauty’. While it is true that much of Florida is as fake as the tits at a Palm Beach barbecue, it is equally true that the Everglades, the Big Cypress and the Ten Thousand Islands are absolutely […]
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Whistling Straits – Why This is Pete Dye’s Masterpiece
Whistling Straits first came onto my radar screen in 2004 when V.J.Singh won the P.G.A. there in a playoff over Justin Leonard and Chris DiMarco. To be clear, Whistling Straits is actually the home of two courses, the Straits of which I am writing today and the Irish course, but for all intents and purposes […]
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Blackwolf Run – You Must Play These Two Pete Dye Masterpieces
The American Club Resort in Kohler, Wisconsin has four Pete Dye designed courses that are all in the top 60 of U.S. courses that anyone can play. Well anyone with enough money. The courses are located in two distinct areas. The Whistling Straits and Irish courses are right on Lake Michigan twenty minutes from the […]
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Lambeau Field – Why Everyone Should See a Game in Green Bay
It’s day two of my visit to Wisconsin to play the four Pete Dye courses at the American Club Resort in Kohler. More important than today’s golf is a Thursday night visit to Lambeau Field to watch the Packers take on my beloved Vikings. It’s an iconic rivalry at an iconic football stadium. Please join […]
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American Club Resort – Play Pete Dye’s Four Great Courses & More
Why Wisconsin? Well if the fact that it is ‘America’s Dairyland’ is not enough to get you over excited about Wisconsin, how about that they do two things really good here, besides make cheese – golf and football. For the past thirty years or so a group of friends and I head south to play […]
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Nemacolin – Western Pennsylvania’s Premiere Resort
One of the reasons I seldom go on travel writer’s fam (familiarization) trips is because they are bloody hard work – long hours, often visiting sites that have zero interest even though the host thinks that it is the next big thing in tourism, dealing with travel divas who can make me cringe with embarrassment […]
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Pittsburgh – First Impressions of the City of Bridges
I almost didn’t get to Pittsburgh yesterday thanks to the ever vigilant authorities at Pearson Airport. Despite having a Nexus card I got tagged for extra scrutiny and diverted to the regular security lineup where I presented my boarding pass and put my things through the scanner. No big deal – until I tried to […]
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Naples Botanical Garden – A Gallery of Fabulous Flowers
I’m sitting at the bar in the Village Pub in Venetian Village in Naples, Florida on the last day before we return to Novas Scotia. Alison is browsing the shops of this semi-interesting shopping area – that’s my highest rating for any shopping venue. I could get depressed about returning to work in two days, […]