A Gulf Coast Golf Post
Mike and I both grew up enjoying swimming, boating, and water skiing. We also both grew up around horses.
Though I never considered myself a “car girl,” I appreciate the same cars Mike likes. We attend car shows with friends and enjoy the comradery. Car shows were new for me.
Mike and I have been married over two years now. It’s been fun to discover the many things we have in common. A good hamburger. Old Westerns on television. Tampa Bay Rays baseball.
It has also been good to discover new experiences.
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Looking at a New Adventure |
Mike was…and is… a true fisherman. I’m not talking about putting a worm on a hook, tossing your line out and waiting for the bobber to bounce. Mike understands lines and lures. He knows how to cast a line and reel it in with a certain rhythm to attract a bass. I know. He’s teaching me. I caught a bass off our dock. Even though I still contend it was “monster” sized fish, on Mike’s assessment, we threw it back. Just as well. I wasn’t prepared to clean and cook it. (Picture at the bottom of this post.)
While he was enjoying fishing in his past life, I was snow skiing in the winter and golfing in the summer. I don’t see snow skiing in our future. But golf? I enjoy the game. I’m no pro, but I do have family members who are good golfers.
Golf is a great activity and Mike’s dad was a golfer. Still, I was both happy and surprised my sweet husband decided to take up the sport. When our grandson, came for a visit in March, Spencer went with Mike to get a set of clubs. When we moved my mom from Ohio to Florida, we found room in the truck for my clubs to make the trek.
Mike contacted the golf pro, Lou Harris, who purchased a venue called Adventureland in Floral City, Florida. The driving range is ten-minutes or so from our house.
Lou gives golf lessons for a small fee. He’s qualified. For over forty-four years… actually, “Forty-four years, one-hundred sixty-three days,” he told me, Lou was the Director of Golf at McDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
The weather was perfect. Lou left us alone for the most part, coming over only as we neared the end of our visit. His wife, Coni, manages the weekly Thursday Flea Market in the parking lot (seasonal) and sells a variety of decorative pieces in the shop.
I love an impromptu date with my husband. Making it an afternoon of perfect weather hitting golf balls at Adventureland? Well…let’s call it what it was: “A Sweet Adventure.”
Interested in lessons or practice or poking around the antiques and one-of-a-kind décor for your home? Check it out. Adventureland, 6440 S. Florida Ave, Floral City, Florida 34436.
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My Bass! Look at the size of that thing! |