Home Again

"The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment is a secret which but few discover."

   - Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British essayist

I'm finally home again after almost two weeks of golf, fellowship and fun. After returning from Santee, I repacked my bags and made a second trip, this time to the mountains of North Carolina with another group of buddies.

Why would I make two trips back to back? Well, the scheduling for one is done independently of the other, for the two groups don't know each other. I could have bowed out of one of them, but then I'd have missed seeing fellows I've known in some cases for over 40 years, and I didn't want to do that. It would have been another year before I'd have been able to see some of them again.  

And that's what these trips are all about anyway--seeing my old friends. The golf has become secondary for me. Most of us have gotten to the part of our lives when good shots are more rare than bad ones and whether we make a par or a triple-bogey, we laugh and tee it up again with a minimum of self-flagellation.

I've included some photos from the Santee outing in this post. I'll put the ones from the Mt. Mitchell trip into another. Yes, I do hang out with mostly senior citizens, but we are all young at heart and plan to continue getting together until we're no longer physically able--which I hope is many years from now.

For any of my readers who are golfers, you may be interested in where we played: Lake Marion Golf Course, Wyboo Golf Club, Beech Creek Golf Club, Santee-Cooper Country Club and Santee NationalGolf Club.