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A Delightful Round of Golf, A Steak and A Trip To Mayberry, I Mean Newberry.

Posted on by Dennis Davis
It has been the better part of 16 years since I last played golf at Hiawatha Sportsman’s Club golf course. It still held incredibly vivid imagery and warm memories in my heart. The first time I ever chipped a ball in from many yards off the green, the first time I ever “truly” parred a hole and the first time I ever came within a few strokes of paring a course.… continue reading
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Grave Times for the Great Lakes.

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As we ventured into the seemingly untouched expanses of the upper Peninsula something seemed a miss. We strolled the beach in Mackinac city, in the shadow of the great mackinac bridge, something seemed off. As we went to sand dune beach and then strolled the shores in Naubinway, I couldn’t help but notice that things were very different.… continue reading
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Yoopers and Trolls, Eh.

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The magnificent Upper Peninsula of Michigan, what can I say. Clean air, clean water, a sky that seems to stretch on forever, ancient untouched forests, sandy beaches, California weather (at least in June, July and August), and my favorite thing of all, not many of those annoying things that cramp up most vacation spots that I like to call people.… continue reading
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The Domestication of Time

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It had become apparent that my time in Vietnam was going to be, at least for the moment, indefinite. The local people’s council was not making my ability to secure our proper documents an easy task by any means. I had secured our apartment on a day to day basis and taking full advantage of our extended time together, Diễm and I settled into a wonderful routine of daily walks to the mart, trips to the market and dinner at home most evenings.… continue reading
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The Honeymoon

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After an incredible evening we retired to the apartment where the floor had erupted into quite a flat party. The festivities carried on into the wee hours of the night. Over the course of the evening guests came and went. So I took some time preparing a few treats for our rotating circle of friends on the floor.… continue reading
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The Night Markets and Returning To Hội An

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As I’ve discussed previously the heat is blistering here. In Southeast Asia one of the many beautiful things that is either directly or indirectly caused by an attempt to avoid the sun are night markets, and Vietnam boasts some of the best.… continue reading
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Playa Centro and Taqueria Erika

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After a couple of intense days of exploration and adventure it was time to slow things down. We were, after all, in paradise and it seemed a waste to rush it all away. We slowly got ourselves up, in no hurry to do anything, as all of our scheduled events had been fulfilled.… continue reading
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Oh, how I go back to the place I was first lost.

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Mexico has such a potent presence in my psyche. She was the first place I saw a structure thousands of years old, the first place I lost myself in a world completely foreign from my own, the first time I walked the streets of a city with 32 million inhabitants where the majority were impoverished.… continue reading
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