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Portland Maine Trip August 2017

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12 hours ago, Valleygolfer said:

Nonesuch is pretty average. I'll play it but it is nothing special. Definitely a open track.

I'd probably play Sable Oaks, great layout just tough 

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Ok, I promised a longer post about the Portland and Cape Elizabeth area, so I'm going to try to go over some stuff without making you all relive my vacation  One of the first things we saw was the

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Are you thinking of Spring Meadows or Old Marsh Country Club? Old Marsh is in Wells (~30 min south of Portland for @billchao) and Spring Meadows is in Gray, about 30 min north of Portland. Old Marsh m

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Plus if you play the Ledges your about 15 minutes away from Bob's Clam Hut.  

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18 hours ago, jsgolfer said:

I'd probably play Sable Oaks, great layout just tough 

Can we just go and hit balls at Roger Goodell's house?

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On 7/3/2017 at 11:58 PM, Valleygolfer said:

Nonesuch is pretty average. I'll play it but it is nothing special. Definitely a open track.

 

21 hours ago, jsgolfer said:

I'd probably play Sable Oaks, great layout just tough 

Yea I'm leaning towards Sable Oaks if we are playing around the Cape Elizabeth area.  

3 hours ago, boogielicious said:

Can we just go and hit balls at Roger Goodell's house?

"The important thing is to enjoy yourself and try to hit through the ball."

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Somebody stop at Costco and pick up some toilet paper. :ninja:

We will have to sort out some details for our group, @boogielicious, @Valleygolfer, and possibly @drmevo depending on the location. Time, date, course, etc. Is everyone ok with a weekday round or is weekend preferred? How far would everyone be willing to travel?

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1 hour ago, billchao said:

 

Yea I'm leaning towards Sable Oaks if we are playing around the Cape Elizabeth area.  

Somebody stop at Costco and pick up some toilet paper. :ninja:

We will have to sort out some details for our group, @boogielicious, @Valleygolfer, and possibly @drmevo depending on the location. Time, date, course, etc. Is everyone ok with a weekday round or is weekend preferred? How far would everyone be willing to travel?

Weekday is better for me. Weekend is family time. 

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2 hours ago, boogielicious said:

Weekday is better for me. Weekend is family time. 

That's probably better for me as well.

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2 hours ago, boogielicious said:

Weekday is better for me. Weekend is family time. 

 

8 minutes ago, billchao said:

That's probably better for me as well.

Depends on the day and time

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19 minutes ago, Valleygolfer said:

 

Depends on the day and time

What would be best for you?

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22 minutes ago, billchao said:

What would be best for you?

Probably the Tuesday. I don't think I can drop my daughter off on a Thursday and be back in time to pick her up. I don't have much of a support group here or I would get someone else to grab her...

In a way it would be better for me to work around a plan after it is set.

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21 hours ago, billchao said:

 

Yea I'm leaning towards Sable Oaks if we are playing around the Cape Elizabeth area.  

Somebody stop at Costco and pick up some toilet paper. :ninja:

We will have to sort out some details for our group, @boogielicious, @Valleygolfer, and possibly @drmevo depending on the location. Time, date, course, etc. Is everyone ok with a weekday round or is weekend preferred? How far would everyone be willing to travel?

Unfortunately weekdays aren't too good for me since I'm already using a good bit of my PTO already this summer, unless it's an afternoon and I can just take off early from work. Do you know what dates are possibilities yet? 

 

 


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49 minutes ago, drmevo said:

Unfortunately weekdays aren't too good for me since I'm already using a good bit of my PTO already this summer, unless it's an afternoon and I can just take off early from work. Do you know what dates are possibilities yet? 

It will probably have to be during the week, but not sure about the time yet. I'm trying to accommodate as many people as possible (myself included).

We haven't finalized any excursions during the trip so for now everything is open. I know my family wants to do whale watching and a lobster boat thing so that will be two days I'm unavailable, whenever we book those. 

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It will probably have to be during the week, but not sure about the time yet. I'm trying to accommodate as many people as possible (myself included).

We haven't finalized any excursions during the trip so for now everything is open. I know my family wants to do whale watching and a lobster boat thing so that will be two days I'm unavailable, whenever we book those. 

Sounds good, obviously do whatever works best for your vacation plans. If I can somehow make it once plans are set I will.

Whale watches are a lot of fun, but I hope no one in your family is the least bit prone to sea-sickness, or that you get a very calm day out on the water.  ;-) 


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On 7/6/2017 at 9:13 AM, drmevo said:

Whale watches are a lot of fun, but I hope no one in your family is the least bit prone to sea-sickness, or that you get a very calm day out on the water.  ;-) 

Yea I read some horror stories...

Last time they all went whale watching was at my cousin's wedding in Cape Cod a number of years ago and they all liked it so they want to do it again. I missed it because I had to leave that vacation early.

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Yea I read some horror stories...

Last time they all went whale watching was at my cousin's wedding in Cape Cod a number of years ago and they all liked it so they want to do it again. I missed it because I had to leave that vacation early.

Don't be too proud to take Dramamine or something. Unless you're on boats a lot, it can really help.

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5 minutes ago, boogielicious said:

Don't be too proud to take Dramamine or something. Unless you're on boats a lot, it can really help.

Yea everyone is going to take some as a precaution. My wife might be in trouble, she can get car sick.

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Just now, billchao said:

Yea everyone is going to take some as a precaution. My wife might be in trouble, she can get car sick.

Scapolamine patches are very effective too. She may need to get it from her doctor. Also, old sailing trick is to bring breadsticks or pretzels to snack on. For some reason, the salt and carbs settles the stomach.

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1 minute ago, boogielicious said:

Scapolamine patches are very effective too. She may need to get it from her doctor. Also, old sailing trick is to bring breadsticks or pretzels to snack on. For some reason, the salt and carbs settles the stomach.

Thanks for the tips.

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1 hour ago, boogielicious said:

Don't be too proud to take Dramamine or something. Unless you're on boats a lot, it can really help.

Dramamine will kill any get up and go you have... Horrible stuff but beats ralphing all over the boat.

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On 7/5/2017 at 7:50 AM, boogielicious said:

Can we just go and hit balls at Roger Goodell's house?

Yes. He comes back to Chautauqua in the summers sometimes. :-)

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