Hop Lot is a great place.
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Gotta leave this hereâŚ
Noah does some AMAZING work in Michigan, and Kingsley is out here putting on a show
https://refuge.nolayingup.com/t/photo-gallery-share-your-golf-photos-here/2666/3543?u=tcrbrad
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Can we get some speculation on the next season of Tourist Sauce or is that already spoiled? Seems like they havenât given any hints on the pods when they say they are leaving for Tourist Sauce soon. I know England is still on the list but feels like they would have gone over to some of the Open if that was the case.
det blir i sverige
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pretty sure there was some hint about it being sweden / scandinavia in the past few months
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a thread already exists
Ah, thank you! I searched for Tourist Sauce and didnât see that come up
Iâm hoping for some outstanding coffee content. The idea of Fika should fit right in with the dads.
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Theyâll be drinking soo much coffee. I visited friends a couple of years ago when my wife was pregnant. We were chatting with our friends (who had kids themselves) about things to avoid / limit during pregnancy. My wife mentions a 2 per day limit re coffee. Our friend said that the recommended limit in Sweden was something like 5. I remember it being a large number and so vastly different from the UK recommendation.
For those of you visiting the Grand Rapids area to play the DeVries trio and go in search of the brewery, De Hops, that the NLU crew met the owner of and sampled beers at⌠it closed (as I understand it) permanently this winter.
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Oh man, thatâs a bummer. My wife and I would go there every other Friday after golf. Food and beer were very good. Unfortunately, it was never busy at all so I had a feeling this might happen.
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Anyone have a good 30-second elevator pitch I can give my wife about how Traverse City can be just as good a family vacation as the shore (Cape May, NJ or OBX)?
Part of her family is going to Traverse this summer and asked if we want to get in on a place. I showed her the first few non-golf minutes of the Kingsley episode and her interest was piqued. But, she loves the ocean. Anyone with strong non-golf reasons why Traverse is as a good spot for a family vacation?
Narrator: this has zero to do with golf this guy is going to sneak in on the trip!
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Tons of outdoor activities other than golf. Hiking, biking, beaches all over the place, good breweries, wineries, distilleries, fudge, lots of good non fudge dining, fishing, tubing, no sharks.
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The lake/bay/beaches, especially if you go to any of the dunes beaches, are phenomenal. Views as good as any in the country on those dune hikes as well.
There is tons of stuff to do for the whole family. Shopping, food, festivals, hiking, water rentals, etc
Weather is fantastic in the summer. Doesnât get crazy hot.
More wineries in the area than you could ever visit on one trip.
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That usually helps. Thanks! @FisherM24 that was a good read, thanks. I love the line that three days is the perfect stay length. âSee everything we have, then get your tourist ass outta here!â
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6 hour drive
Beer, wine, beaches. (Boats!)
Another thing I love about TC/Northern Michigan that you kinda donât think about a whole lot but the days are long being both that far north and west in the eastern time zone. If youâre a porch sitting familyâŚitâs the best.
This pic was taken at 10:02 PM just up the road in Charlevoix.
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Lake Michigan is basically the ocean without the salt.
Enough light to play 126 holes in one day, plus about a 45 minute break.
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East / west location within a time zone does not affect length of days. If itâs light late in the day, that just means it gets light later the next morning.
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Nobody likes a pedant.
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We went there last August for the first time and loved it. Some favorite things to do: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park, chartered a sail boat for the day with a captain and sailed Grand Traverse Bay, visited the fishing village of Leland, canoed the Platt River as it empties into Lake Michigan. Youâve got to be honest and tell her the water is cold, but the part of Lake Michigan in this region is crystal blue. One of the best vacations ever! If you go definitely make the hour drive north and play Belvedere. Even better than it looks on the TS episode. Also drove a couple of hours north and spent the day at Mackinac Island and it was well worth it. Biked around the entire island (about a 7 mile relatively flat ride).
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