Tonn’s Travels

It was with mixed emotions today that we left Minnesota, en route to Chicago, to take the most wonderful oldest daughter in the history of oldest daughters, Libby Tonn, to…

Planets aligned today for me to cross a few more unplayed courses off my To Play List. My wife and youngest daughter wanted to head to Mankato, Minnesota for the…

One of the both cool and occasionally frustrating things in my course collecting travels is to constantly see new courses popping up in areas where I have literally played every…

After a wonderful evening of R&R with my wife eating at Grandma's and exploring the Duluth Rose Garden and Leif Erikson Park, after doing work on some wooded property we…

It had been nearly 48 hours since I had the opportunity to get any new courses played, and I was starting to twitch and get jittery, showing classic signs of…

After heading North to try and escape the rain that was present for most of my visit to Kansas City in the past week, one of the awesome consolation prizes…

As I woke up this morning, I realized that I was sitting four courses shy of having played 1,800 in my lifetime. And what was neat is that I had…

I'm not one to give up very often, as I am about as stubborn and determined as they come. But as I looked at the weather forecast this morning as…

After 220 holes played the previous two days, and being wet for a majority of the past four days, I was feeling both physically and mentally fatigued as I got…

Today was another opportunity to play nine more new courses in wet conditions: Lakeside Hills DGC in Olathe, KansasFrontier Trail in Olathe, KansasWashington Elementary in Olathe, KansasTimber Wolf Estates in…

Today was a BIG day of course collecting! I played nine more new courses, but that included four eighteen-holers. A total of 114 holes of disc golf, which is one…

One of the things I always try and do when I am out on the course collecting trail is to play enough eighteen-hole courses to make me feel as though…

Today was exciting...as it is my first opportunity in months to have an honest-to-goodness course collecting road trip. No meetings for work! No travel companions needing frequent pit stops and…

With my wife and youngest headed to Mayo Clinic in Rochester for an appointment for our youngest, while our oldest was in Minneapolis for her last week of high school…

Staying in Walcott, Iowa last night, West of Quad Cities, I knew I wouldn't be playing much (if any) disc golf today. And while I always want to get as…

After quite a bit of "quality time" with my hotel room's hairdryer last night, I had been hoping for bright sun and dry ground today, as I pushed my way…

Today was another chance for me to play some additional courses in Cincinnati and Indianapolis, something I've been meaning to do for a while now (long before spending a bit…

After thoroughly enjoying myself in Winston-Salem, it was with mixed feelings that I bid a few friends adieu and started the 1,300 mile trek for home. I had a few…

I took a break from the course collecting trail today to work with kids with epilepsy (and their guardians), teaching the basics of disc golf as a way of introducing…

I'm not sure how many times I have mentioned this in my blog, but of all the places I have disc golfed around the continent (as well as a bit…

I woke up this morning, in pain and continuing to feel nervous about what I was hearing about the availability of gas (or lack thereof) in North Carolina. But instead…

Today was a tough day. My back, right hip and right leg, which have been bad for weeks, felt much worse today. Hours of sitting in a car, then miles…

I've been radio silent with this blog for a couple months. I feel terrible about that...as in my role as Ambassador for DGA? Writing this blog is one of my…

Today was a good day! I was able to play another six new courses in Minnesota and North Dakota. I had hoped to play as many as eight new courses,…

I'm pretty sure I've whined about it as a part of this blog at least once or twice in the past. But today, I FINALLY was able to "exorcise a…

I like to tease from time to time about being put on the "disabled list," like major league baseball teams will do with their injured players. My headaches, my back,…

It's been a quiet few weeks on the disc golf front for me. Work has been busy, which is good! However, I have also been trying to recover from a…

I noticed in the past couple of days that a park that I had previously played disc golf at, Larson Park in Brookings, South Dakota, was showing that a new…

After wrapping up my official duties as a course designer this morning, I took the LONG way home, so I could hopefully knock out as many as five new courses…

Today was a fun day, needing to head up into Northern Minnesota to spend the weekend designing my eleventh disc golf course. And of course, on the way? I had…

Today was a day I had been looking forward to, as we got to pick up my oldest (18) from school in Golden Valley, Minnesota to have her home again…

Whew! Today was a day. I knew when I decided to stay in Eau Claire last night that if my health and the weather cooperated, I had a chance to…

Today was the day I have been looking forward to for several weeks. It was the day that a fellow course design friend, Steve West, invited myself and Chuck Kennedy…

Sometimes when you are out on the course collecting trail, you research courses to play that don't excite you. Courses that are just "in the way" on your path to…

I was thinking that it was going to be a few weeks (at least) until I got any more new courses played. Work is kicking my behind, plus I've got…

Today was a LONG day of meetings, along with tackling one "Honey-Do" for my extended family: picking up my niece at the MSP International Airport. Things I am happy to…

After months of talking with the organizers of the Electric Disc Connection event in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, today was FINALLY the day to meet several kids with epilepsy, along with…

I got up at the crack of dawn this morning, in part so I could try and play two more courses on my way home that are miles (and miles)…