Half-way home!

Greetings:

Today marks day #40 of our 80 day odyssey. We are officially at the half-way mark. Since our last posting on Sunday, we have driven from Bellingham, WA to Willits, CA, where we are camped for the night.

After a much-needed oil change on Monday, we drove down to the Tacoma area and played Chambers Bay Golf Club - the home of the 2015 US Open. Once again, the course lived up to the hype - very picturesque and challenging. We had a late tee time (@3 pm) and just managed to finish by playing the 17th hole (a par 3) in near darkness and by playing #18 in absolute darkness. The only reason we finished was because we managed to hit the ball straight all the way to the green on the par 5. Couldn't tell if it was a scenic hole or not. Our caddie said it was the darkest finish he'd ever been a part of. We had a nice dinner in the CB Restaurant afterwards.

We drove all day Tuesday from the Chambers Bay area and arrived late pm in Bandon, OR. Yesterday (Wednesday) we played the Pacific Dunes course at Bandon Dunes. Golf Week mag. had rated it the #1 "course you can play" in the USA. It's a great course with the ocean bordering most of the holes. Unfortunately, we ran into some cool and rainy weather. It's the first really nasty weather we've played in since we left PA We finished the round (it really wasn't that bad) and then went to a local sports bar for dinner.




Today we drove from Bandon to here in Willits, CA (we passed the 6,000 mile mark for the trip on the way). The first part of the drive followed the Oregon coast.






Tomorrow we plan to see a bit of the Napa Valley as we drive down to central California to visit/play golf with Mark and Melanie Reynolds. After that, we'll be headed to the Monterrey Peninsula for a couple days before heading down to So. Cal to visit with Sam and Nan Mazzilli.

More to follow...