Day 32: Protea Hotel Wanderers, Home to Me in Joburg!

Taking respite at the Protea Hotel Wanderers in Joburg for 3 nights before heading to Durban, George, the Garden Route & Cape Town. Very nice place, very comfortable & restorative… good place for a wanderer like me! (-:   (Facebook Post 12 Pics, Andy Reistetter, 12/21/15)

A most remarkable evening sky after a Joburg thunderstorm like no other... Kind of a cross between puffy & swirled... not sure if I have seen one like this before.

A most remarkable evening sky after a Joburg thunderstorm like no other… Kind of a cross between puffy & swirled… not sure if I have seen one like this before.

A most remarkable evening sky after a Joburg thunderstorm like no other… Kind of a cross between puffy & swirled… not sure if I have seen one like this before. A most remarkable evening sky after a Joburg thunderstorm like no other. Kind of a cross between puffy & swirled… not sure if I have seen one like this before. — at Protea Hotel Wanderers. (-:   (Facebook Post 1 Pic, Andy Reistetter, 12/21/15)

Awesome 3 nights at the Protea Hotel Wanderers in Joburg! Enjoyed my time just wandering about here & there… Completely revived and heading to the coast today… Durban, George, the Garden Route and then Cape Town for New Year’s Eve! Great people here at Protea Hotels… invited me back for my first 3 nights when I return to Joburg for the South African & Joburg Opens in January. So blessed on this trip to meet so many great people with an interest in this Golf Journey to South Africa!   (Facebook Post 12 Pics, Andy Reistetter, 12/23/15)

4 weeks into the 6-week ‘Golf Journey to South Africa’… going all too fast… back in Joburg for the 2nd time after arriving on December 11th… both times staying at the Protea Hotel Wanderers, in my opinion the flagship property of the all Protea Hotels… very classy place… absolutely love it here!   (Facebook Post 11 Pics, Andy Reistetter, 1/9/16)

Day 28: Interviewing Cape Town’s Own Sally Little at the New Metropolitan!

Meeting South African golfing legend Sally Little at her home The Metropolitan Golf Club in Cape Town was an extraordinary day! She is such a warm, young, beautiful and gracious person! Besides the excitement of meeting her and playing an incredibly interesting, well designed (by Mark Muller), and fun to play 9-hole golf course with 14 greens… new stadium… golf course renovation… old clubhouse is now a McDoanld’s… THE biggest memory is how engaging & charismatic Sally was with some new fans from the UK, in town for the England-SA cricket game, from the Barrow Golf Club & Westlake Golf Clubs, playing in a Wyder Cup competition what ever that is… great guys who loved meeting Sally… so did I…  CLICK here for Sally Little’s Living Golf Website.   (Facebook Post, Andy Reistetter, 1/31/16)

Day 26: Visiting the Southern Africa Golf Hall of Fame & Museum in Cape Town

 

Most inspiring golfing moment on the 6-week ‘Golf Journey to South Africa’… visiting the Southern Africa Golf Hall of Fame & Museum near the Clock Tower on the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town… founder Barry Cohen gave me a great tour… honor & privilege to meet & interview 5 Hall of Famers on this trip- Ernie Els, John Bland, Sally Little, Theo Manyama, & Fulton Allem before I left Orlando… more to come on this topic… can you guess who the two young kids are in one of the pics?… inspiring history of golf in South Africa…   (Facebook Post, Andy Reistetter, 1/23/16)

Day 26: Play Royal Cape Golf Club

Flashback to Cape Town and an awesome round of golf at Royal Cape Golf Club with Lindsay and Addi & Alastair from Scotland… such a beautiful golf course and experience… the oldest golf course in all of South Africa…appreciative of an interview with Golf Director Tony Louw and a golf book gift! Sooo loved everything about Cape Town! (-:   (Facebook Post, Andy Reistetter, 1/23/16)

Day 25: City Sightseeing Red Bus Tour of Cape Town

Reliving Cape Town and the Hop On Hop Off Red Bus CPT Tour… love that big double decker, open on top, Red Bus Tour in any city! CLICK here for the City Sightseeing Red Bus Tour of Cape Town Website.   (Facebook Post, Andy Reistetter, 1/18/16)

Day 25: The Parlotones for a Second Time, Now a Fan Forever!

 

This days just keeps getting better… backstage VIP with the Parlotones… interviewed Glen Hodgson who is a golfer… should be a great concert! (-:   (Facebook Post 9 Pics, Andy Reistetter, 12/26/15)

Having a TROML Day today… off to Cape Town today… Red Bus tour & Parlotones concert! (-:    (Facebook Post 1 Pic, Andy Reistetter, 1/3/16)

Reliving my week in Cape Town… definite groupie of the The Parlotones… saw them first at The Wild Coast Sun and then again at the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts in Cape Town… a great outdoor venue… love their song “We were Just Having Fun”… Ellen Jackson thinking would be a good theme for our 40th high school reunion… “We were Just Having Fun & Still are”… this studio version does not do justice to being there performing to a live audience… can’t wait until they start touring again in the USA! CLICK here to hear The Parlotones perform “We were just having fun”   (Facebook Post 10 Pics, Andy Reistetter, 1/9/16)

 

Definite The Parlotones groupie… ran into Kahn & AK after lunch with my buddy Rob! Parlotones are doing a West Coast USA tour in April… will have to figure out a way to be there! TROML conversation with Kahn about this song… my theme song for 2016… no spectators need apply… don’t just stand next to me… let’s inspire each other every day… for the rest of our lives… CLICK here for The Parlotones’ Push Me To The Floor Song & Lyrics  (Facebook Post, Andy Reistetter, 1/21/16)

Day 22: Playing Pearl Valley Golf & Country Estate, Golf in South Africa at its Finest!

 

 

Reliving a most extraordinary experience… on the last day of 2015… the first part… shooting a 76 with five birdies (yes f-i-v-e birdies!) on a great Jack Nicklaus layout at Pearl Valley Golf & Country Estate… thanks to Golf Manager Carl Krog for hosting me, Club Captain Evert & his wife Nanette & Chris Tap Tap for entertaining me, & amazing playing partner Lindsay… WOW, no better golfing or living experience in the world, irregardless of the 5 birdies… definitely lived the Pearl Valley dream for a day… now for the second part of an amazing year-end TROML experience on the Golf Journey to South Africa…   (Facebook Post 27 Pics, Andy Reistetter, 1/6/16)

Reliving Part 2 of a most extraordinary experience… on the last day of 2015… the first part… shooting a 76 at Pearl Valley Golf & Country Estate… the second part… celebrating the New Year ‘Through the Looking Glass’ with Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter at La Residence in beautiful Franschhoek… an amazing year-end TROML experience on the Golf Journey to South Africa… heading into Cape Town today for the 4th straight day… head back to Joburg tomorrow to cover the SA & Joburg Opens… then home to the PGA Show in Orlando on the 24th…   (Facebook Post 13 Pics, Andy Reistetter, 1/6/16)

Day 21: Visiting Fancourt The Links, Quite Bland, Yet Presidential Too!

Stopped by Fancourt – South Africa, a golf resort with the Montagu and Outeniqua golf courses… and then not far away the Fancourt The Links, the ultra private club that hosted the 2003 President’s Cup that finished in a tie after Ernie Els and Tiger Woods tied 3 playoff holes. Interviewed John Bland, the South African gofler that has won 36 times, including 5 times on the Champions Tour…   (Facebook Post 11 Pics, Andy Reistetter, 1/3/16)

Day 21: Ernie Els’ Oubaai, now that really means “Oh Boy, What a Place!”

TROML visit to Oubaai… great to meet Ernie Els at home in South Africa… inspiring grand tour with his cousin Trudie who orchestrated the original land purchase… and WOW, what a golf course… amazing 16-17-18 finishing holes!   (Facebook Post 12 Pics, Andy Reistetter, 1/1/16)

Day 20: Playing St. Francis Links, courtesy of Santa Clause

Incredible golfing experience at St. Francis Links today with Santa Claus, aka Jeff Clause… best Nicklaus design I ever played! Amazing links & sand dunes. (Facebook Post 7 Pics, Andy Reistetter, 12/29/16)