Travel cannot be meaningful for me without a round of golf thrown in once every few days. As a result, my golf bag gets into the car first on our road travels and onto the check-in scales for our air travels before any of the other bags!

It has been great fun playing golf on the road. I have played countless courses of varying pedigrees, from courses with manicured fairways and immaculate greens to those that just pass muster as a golf course. But as any true golf aficionado will attest, just being out on the course feels wonderful regardless of the course.

In addition, I have played with so many different people, from high schoolers and jocks who can drive 270 yards with ease to veterans and those whose best golf years may be behind them but their love for the game is not diminished one bit. But without exception, each has been wonderful company and one feels a certain kinship by the end that only the trials and tribulations of a round can elicit.

In addition to playing with family and old buddies, among the most fun was with the five musketeers I played with on multiple occasions at Memramcook GC (one of the advantages of staying at one place for a long stretch). They were very welcoming, witty (particularly with their French accents!), and took their game seriously just to the right extent.

It has been fascinating to hear of the backstories of my fellow golfers, what keeps them going and what they do for their day jobs - from a manager at an inland commercial salmon farm to an Iraq war vet who “got blown up” but now is a Paralympian downhill skier to a high schooler who is about to get a pilot’s license to someone who retired after putting in 42 years straight at a hardware company to an engineer responsible for one part of a weather satellite that Lockheed Martin will send to space for the US NOAA to one who solo canoed his way along Lake Superior for 8 days just a couple of weeks ago to someone who owns a popular jazz bar in Montreal, and so many other interesting people!

*With 3 of the 5 musketeers at Memramcook GC, New Brunswick CA*

*With my babies, my most favorite companions on the golf course (and off it too!)*

*With three newly initiated golfers playing their first ever round, Trumbull CT*

*Van Cortlandt GC, Bronx, New York City*

*With Kevin at Dundee GC, Nova Scotia CA*

*With Akash at Malanquin GC, San Miguel de Allende MX*

*With a bunch of newfound friends who treated me, a complete stranger, to not only a round of golf but also wonderful breakfast, East Point GC, Visakhapatnam IN*

*With Jim, a Purple Heart vet, at a course in Michigan*

*With Mike and a wonderful bunch of locals in Wawa GC CA*

*Post-round celebration of the Monday Seniors’ league that kindly allowed us to join in ,Wawa GC CA*

*With a bunch of youngsters at Pole Creek GC near Winter Park, Colorado*

Also at Pole Creek - I will say no more!

#24 Golf on the road

#25 A note from an Indigo flight crew

#23 Some statistics of our travels!