My family had been having a couple of hard weeks the past few weeks. Lots changing in our little family, with our oldest about to turn eighteen in September and…
Today was a special day for me...playing my 300th course across the State of Minnesota. The vast majority of disc golfers out there will probably never play three hundred total…
After completing some work last night and this morning, I was lucky enough to find myself with a "surprise" day of discretionary time, in an area with courses I had…
Judson Mine has been on my list of courses I need to play since it first opened in 2018. And when the need (and opportunity) recently presented itself to head…
I was thinking a lot on my recent trip to/from Tennessee about course design. Specifically, how much I have learned about course design while playing over 1,500 unique disc golf…
I woke up tired this morning. Physically tired, but also mentally tired. A stressful five days of work, coupled with 1,800+ miles behind the wheel and 36 new disc golf…
Whew! Today was a day! The first time in many months that I have played more than 100 holes of disc golf in a day. I was able to play…
I bid Oak Ridge, Tennessee adieu this morning, hoping to make it somewhere around Southeastern Missouri before calling it a night. And I did something that comes unnaturally to me…
I was able to complete my last item on my punch list for work a couple hours early this afternoon, so I decided to play three of the remaining courses…
Yesterday wore me down at work even more than the day before, so I needed an evening to relax and recharge my body (darned arms, legs and back...ha!). But today…
I will keep this post short and sweet...as work kicked my behind today. I got back to my hotel room after a physically exhausting ten-hour day of scanning countless lab…
Day One of my work in Tennessee was much easier than I had expected it to be, with me wrapping up my To Dos in under five hours. So with…
After over 1,100 miles behind the wheel since Friday morning, I FINALLY rumbled into Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Getting ready to start a hard but rewarding week of work for a…
Today was a great day of disc golf...knocking out six new courses as I made my way from Keokuk, Iowa to Clarksville, Tennessee. It had been too long since I've…
I am incredibly blessed. As in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a business partner of mine called recently to say that he had thousands of dollars of work for…
Another month of essentially being unable to hit the course collecting trail, and another month of working on physical conditioning and mental toughness around my hometown. I set personal bests…
I had to laugh. Being ordered to stay at home (and hotels and restaurants being closed) roughly two months after FINALLY regaining my driving privileges after seven months. 2019-2020 have…
I will admit it. My heart is telling me to hit the road and start collecting more courses played. And it was devastating, talking with two friends of mine and…
I had a fun surprise this morning, when a great guy I am getting to know here in my hometown, Scott Gartner, asked if I might want to head down…
After yesterday's productive day, I needed to make the approximately 300-mile trip back home. And with four additional courses I had yet to play between me and "the 56087?" Well,…
I saw earlier in the week that temperatures in the Sioux City, Iowa area were supposed to reach 58 F this weekend, and that my favorite United States Snow Cover…
If you want to generate hours of discussion and some occasional (albeit always respectful and friendly) debate among course collectors around the planet, simply ask them one question: "What counts…
As I have been open about sharing in previous blog posts, I was diagnosed with epilepsy back in June 2019. However, what I have not shared as of yet is…
I won't lie...my 48-year old body was telling me to stay in bed, drinking (and eating) out of a straw and whining about how much my __________ hurt after yesterday's…
Aah...today was EXACTLY the day I've been needing! Eighty-four holes of disc golf on seven new courses in the Des Moines, Iowa metro area. My day started at Heritage Park…
After 220 days without driving privileges, the State of Minnesota finally restored my right to drive on January 4, 2020. Once I could prove that I had been seizure-free for…
Today was one of those fun opportunities I get to have a few times per year, presenting a disc golf workshop to approximately twenty Parks and Recreation professionals at the…
It's been a rough couple of months. :-( Health-wise, my side-effects of my epilepsy medication have made me feel extremely tired and sick to my stomach. The irony of which…
Heading over to South Dakota for an extended family get-together with my in-laws today, I found out that we would be within 12-13 miles of a very small, unique course…
Being an "inlander" again has me feeling a little sad, as I absolutely LOVE life out along the Pacific Ocean. :-( That said? I was able to "make a little…
Collecting courses this Summer has been a challenge, due to my continued driving restrictions post-epilepsy diagnosis. But I was very lucky this week, as some business travel for work brought…
Getting out and about to visit new courses has been tough since being recently diagnosed with epilepsy and placed on a no driving restriction by the State of Minnesota until…
After having a few weeks to try and adjust to my epilepsy medication, I thought it was high time I get back in the saddle and get back to course…
For those of you who do not know me well, I have had a headache every day of my life since Thanksgiving Day 1991. I was playing a friendly pick…
One of the things I do several times per week is put on my imaginary "private investigator's hat" and hunt for disc golf courses that none of UDisc, Disc Golf…
After wrapping up all of my "To Dos" in Wisconsin and saying goodbye to family while enjoying some delicious pancakes, I hit the road for home this morning...trying to sneak…
After playing in cold, wet conditions most of yesterday here in Wisconsin, today I got to work most of the day designing what will be the 12th disc golf course…
Today was the day I had rescheduled from three weeks ago, heading over to Southern Wisconsin for two sales meetings at work, as well as my efforts to design a…
Every so often when I am course collecting, courses go extinct. Either the equipment and grounds are no longer being maintained, or a property changes owners (and the new owner…
Three times in the past few weeks, I had planned on playing course #1,500, and three times I had been thwarted due to either work, weather, or visiting a course…