Posts in Category: United States
-
Jefferson Davis Historic Site, Irwinville, Georgia
I’ve just driven into the tiny hamlet of Irwinville, Georgia, aka Nowheresville, looking for the Jefferson Davis Memorial as it’s described on the official state map. What you might ask, has caused me to leave the relative sameness, safety and comfort of I-75 for the unknown backroads of rural Georgia? Isn’t that what the guys […]
-
Pine Needles Instead of Pinehurst Golf Courses
This week I flew up to Charlotte from Florida to watch the Carolina Panthers eke out a win over the Seattle Seahawks with my friend Brian MacLellan. After that, our plans were to play at least two rounds of golf at the famous Pinehurst golf courses in the North Carolina sandhills, but due to the possibility of inclement […]
-
North Carolina Sports Teams Hat Trick
Last night I just finished watching the third of the North Carolina Sports Teams in a six day span and in two different countries. Here’s how and why I did it. My daughter Lenore lives in Toronto and every year we try to get to a Maple Leafs game, so in December I bought a couple […]
-
Captiva Island, Florida – Learn History at the Cemetery
I’ve been coming to Sanibel-Captiva for almost forty years and am not conceited enough to think that I know it like the proverbial ‘back of my hand’. Actually if someone showed me a picture of the back of my hand along with say ten others from men my size and age, I doubt very much […]
-
Oak Park Illinois – Hemingway and Frank Lloyd Wright
About a month ago I found myself with a free day in my one of my all time favourite cities – Chicago. It really is my kind of town. The modern architecture never ceases to keep me spellbound, particularly these two amazing apartment buildings by Mies van der Rohe. Doesn’t it look like the cars […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]