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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
This is my eighth post from our November 2024 visit to Arizona and, given the title, one might be confused, as didn’t I just write one about a Sonoran Desert Museum in Phoenix? Yes I did, but that was the Desert Botanical Garden which specialized in the cacti and other plants native to the Sonoran […]
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Starr Pass GC – Coyote & Rattler Hole-by-Hole
After a delightful six day stay in Scottsdale where Alison and I played the Raptor Course at Grayhawk and the Saguaro Course at We-Ko-Pa it was time to move on to our next golf destination, the J.W.Marriott at Starr Pass in Tucson. We will be here for three nights and use it as a base […]
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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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Royal Birkdale Hole by Hole
This is my fifth hole by hole post from our fall 2024 trip to England’s Golf Coast organized by Platinum Golf Scotland. Yesterday we played what has been my favourite course so far, Formby,which has a completely different look than most links courses. Today we will tackle our third Open venue, Royal Birkdale which has […]
From the road
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April 20th, 2023
I’ve had a bad case of writer’s block since getting back from Southeast Asia, but I did finish this post on the fan… https://t.co/HoJjP4jeha
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April 12th, 2023
One of the main reasons to visit the Galapagos is to see the giant tortoises. This latest post explains where you c… https://t.co/mQ8PWha8j3
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April 11th, 2023
Spring is very late this year so it’s nice to see the crocuses finally show up. https://t.co/7HD6wvsEJ6
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April 9th, 2023
Sunday morning is a good time to reflect back on another Sunday in Reading, England which I wrote about here:… https://t.co/EJ4Is2NSqz