Parked at McDonalds to use the free internet to Priceline a room for the night.
Being lost in the Texas Triangle of Dallas-San Antonio-Houston for the last eleven nights was a lot of fun when you stay at places like the Four Seasons Dallas Resort & Spa, J.W. Marriott San Antonio and The Woodlands Resort & Conference Center. Now it was time to break free and get down to the border in Laredo and go for the border crossing at sunrise. After a relaxing morning lounging around The Woodlands Resort I drove the five hours to Laredo and arrived as the sun was setting. I pulled into a McDonald’s to use their free internet and Pricelined a room for the night. This would be my MO (method of operation) when golf resorts chose not to offer me an invitation to visit. Amazingly that only happened one time. unfortunately there were not golf resorts separated by five hours of driving all the way down to Rio.
The Golf Channel producer who came to Glen Echo to film the hickory round referred to me as “a golf voyager and documentarian.” I kind of liked the term with only one qualification—that I like to document what I voyage!
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As I arrive in Laredo, the sun sets on my last day in the States for the next three months.
As evidenced by the first GO PRO driving video shot in Houston, my dual dash-mounted cameras, one facing in to record me and one facing out to record the road were in place and operational. I did not realize my arms were that long or my attention to the road that weak. But I was good at documenting my travels. Looking back I took over 35,000 pictures, over 1,000 videos and used 673 GB of electronic storage. Voyager and Documentarian am I!
Crazy too as I was heading into Mexico and down through Central America with no firm plans but with a great proposition—Would you like to be part of the ‘Journey to Olympic Golf?’
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Torch was looking good from the outside and front!
Taped glove compartment was a bit tacky and not secure at all!
Torch’s back window was creatively patched though not effectively as I would have to drain out the water every once in a while, usually after it rained! Would you follow me to the moon?
