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North America » United States » California » Seaside October 24th 2014

Geo: 36.6307, -121.82Yesterday we played golf at the old Navy course, now called Monterey Pines. A nice course but short (par 68) and not in the league of the Ford Ord courses. We were joined by a friend of Bob's, Don Summers, who is an ex-Marine who now lectures at the NPS. The greens were still very fast but I'm starting to get used to them and only three putted once. Shot an 84 that I am very happy with. We hired pull carts and walked, and my knee started to play up as usual, after about 15 holes.Poor Don won and we each duly paid him his $2 winnings, then Bob stuck him for the $74 bar bill. A tough school! Then we met the girls at the Trident bar and had more beer that ... read more
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North America » United States » California » Seaside September 10th 2013

As we had a drive of over two hours to get to Six Flags Magic Mountain, and we wanted to get there for opening, we were up bright and early at around 6am. Once showered, dressed and all packed up, we loaded up the car and left the hotel by around 7am. Thankfully, we didn’t hit any traffic driving through LA – it helped being a Saturday, otherwise we would have been there right in the middle of rush hour – and we got to the park at around 9:30am, half an hour before the park would be opening at 10am. We had already bought annual thrill passes online - seems silly to buy an annual pass but as we were visiting on two days, it was actually almost $20 cheaper to buy this than two ... read more
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