On the Road Again, 2021
5 stories, in order from the beginning of the trip.
1July 23, 2021
Dateline July 23, 2021, On the Road Again, Golf in Mississippi
Our first trip in about a year, a golf vacation through Mississippi with our friends Pete and Bunny Warenski. A stop in Troy, Alabama, then West Point for Old Waverly and Gil Hanse's remarkable Mossy Oak, then the Choctaw's Dancing Rabbit at Pearl River Resort, a place whose name carries a hard and important history. We turned for home a day early, ahead of a storm.
2August 13, 2021
Dateline August 13, 2021, Raleigh and Family
A week in Raleigh with the family, the opening leg of a longer trip north. At its heart was a celebration of the life of John's brother Will, who passed in July, a gathering full of love, sorrow, and the kind of laughter only Willie could inspire. There was time too for Falls Lake, a round at Wildwood Green, a USGA qualifier, and a Shabbat dinner to send us on our way.
3August 19, 2021
Dateline August 19, 2021, Pinehurst
A return to the North-South Senior at Pinehurst, a redo of last year, so this time we lingered on the history: a stay at the Holly Inn, the first hotel James Walker Tufts built when he founded Pinehurst in 1895, a wander through the village, and the bronze statues by the clubhouse, the Putter Boy, Donald Ross, and Payne Stewart.
4August 25, 2021
Dateline August 25, 2021, Cape Cod
North from Pinehurst to Cape Cod, to see Janice's Uncle Bill and Aunt Margaret in Harwich. Along the way, Plymouth Rock and, at the Barnstable courthouse, the statues of James Otis and Mercy Otis Warren, two Founding-era figures who happen to be Janice's own ancestors. Then eye-watering lobster rolls, the Mooncussers Tavern, and a round of golf with ninety-three-year-old Uncle Bill.
5August 27, 2021
Dateline August 27, 2021, New Hampshire
The last leg, with Janice's sister Connie and her husband Lee in Derry, New Hampshire. We outran Hurricane Henri up from the Cape, ate our way through a New England boiled dinner and the famous 'Stan potatoes,' visited Janice's parents' graves at Lake Sunapee, and played a friendly nine with Lee's buddies before the long drive home.