Adding Up My Calendar

[Dan King]

I used to be a world traveler, but not so much anymore. Here was my calendar:

Jan 1-June 28: Home
June 28: Considered going outside, but weather.com told me it was over 100 degrees outside, so I staid indoors.
June 28-Dec 24: Home
Dec 24: Thought about going Christmas shopping, but damn, it is cold out. Kids are out of luck again this year.

Still have a week to get out and about. We'll see how that goes.

Cheers,
Dan King

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel:  it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.  
 --Dave Barry

[Randy Thompson]

Not sure how many days I was gone this year, I quit counting! but with my principal airline, 27 round trips and you need 30 to classify as the second highest catagory of frequent flyer, so I won´t even make silver this year thanks to the economy. Use to be gold before getting married and traveled 25 to 28 days per month but new wife said(ten years ago), reorganize, delegate and keep your traveling to a maximum of 8 to ten days a month or stay single. No wonder I married her!! I just got back yesterday from a trip and Damn one needs patients at this time of year, too many once a year travelers that disrupt the flow and every where you turn becomes chaos or is it kaos! When you meet new people and tell them what you do for a living, they always respond, really I never met a golf course architect before! But, one time I was in the DFW airport and there is a nice wine bar there and when the bartender asked me the normal question, he responded, ah I know another archiect that was in here not to long ago, ever heard of Tom Doak! Merry Christmas to all!
Randy

[Carl Nichols]

Tom:
Where were you in Florida?



 

[Ash Towe]

Mark,

Good luck with the lottery.

I really hope that course survives.

[cary lichtenstein]

I traveled that much for 30 years, got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and walked straight into a wall. The previous night, the wall was on the other side of the bed.

That was enough. I quit the next year.

[Steve Lang]

   George,

Take I-70 west to I-71 in Columbus to I-65 in Louisville to I-40 in Nashville to I-30 in Little Rock to Texarkana, head south on 59 into Eastern Tx .. take in Crown Colony at Lufkin, Whispering Pines at Trinity and come join us in The Woodlands.. if your schedule can take 20 some hours of travelling

[Robert Thompson]

A lot of stops at Sebonack, a golf course that opened a couple of years ago. Apparently a bunch of tweaks are being made -- or at least that's what I heard when I was in the area in the fall. Probably been talked about here -- what's going on there Tom? I know Jack was in the area in the fall as well.

[Jay Flemma]

Amsterdam twice!  Want to tell us more about the potential project?  How about Belgium?

[Tom_Doak]

Jay:

There's no particular project in Holland or Belgium.  I'm just laying the groundwork for the possibility of something down the road.  And my wife has always wanted to visit the Rubens museum in Antwerp, so we did.

Robert:

A couple of my trips to Sebonack were just to host clients to play it ... I can't send them unless I play with them.  And I was also next door at National for the Old Macdonald documentary.  

But, yes, they did move the 14th green this fall; we were going to do the work originally, but Jack insisted on being involved, so we stayed out of it.  It was done entirely on Mr. Pascucci's prerogative.  He said the approach shot was too hard; so they moved the green 40 yards back up the hill behind where it used to be!

[Bill_McBride]

Steve L:

I'm probably going on 15 years of this kind of travel myself.  In fact, it was a bit of a down year; I've had many years of 175-180 days, and my associates occasionally push 200.

Anthony:

There is a huge difference between being somewhere new, and spending time in airports.  I still love to see new places:  this year's included Santa Fe, Lake Como, the Cinque Terre, Madrid, Hong Kong, and the Great Wall of China.  It's the getting there and getting back part that sucks, and it will continue to do so until all of our kids are out of the house.

Tom, I hope the visit to the Cinque Terre and Lake Como (two of our favorite Italian places) was recreational.  It would be tough to route a course on those terraces in the Cinque Terre!