Golfing Mini Series

By Leslie Parks - Friday, July 23, 2021

 Job, John and I were out trying the private frisbee golf course south east of Bellingham when I was invited to join Job on his cross country move from Maine to California.  He had applied to become an IT in the Coast Guard and was on the list for the Petaluma Training Center.  It was to be a seven month course which required a move since it was a significant amount of time.  He had 10 days to cross the country and we were mulling over what to do along the way.  Being Job and just a bit different we decided to forsake stopping at many of the obvious tourist sights and do try out mini golf.  He enjoys frisbee but he has a love for mini golf that has spanned years starting at the Cannon Beach Christian Conference Center.  As we frisbee golfed our way around the course we discussed various ideas of our trip.  We would need a few items:  golf gloves, golf attire, matching socks, matching visors, and a way to rate each course that we visited.  This trip would take us from Coast to Coast, 3500 miles, a whole continent, two oceans.  I started planning.  There would be a couple of stops that were a must for me; Niagara Falls, Saint Louis Arch, Atlantic Ocean, Rockport Lighthouse, my friend Linda, and the Pacific Ocean.  I started the research, we would drive an average of 350 miles a day as per stipulated by the Coast Guard.  Originally I had thought to golf upon arrival or before leaving a town however it was better to golf as we passed through the towns instead.  I had made a list of each course along the way, what city or town they were in, their phone number, their hours and their address.  We came up with a list of criteria to rate the courses.



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