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Beer Near! Beer Near!
Last spring, in Ireland (makes you think of soap, doesn't it) TD noticed that a lot of the locals at Carne had switched to Guiness "0", the zero alchohol, 50...
Beer Near! Beer Near!
Last spring, in Ireland (makes you think of soap, doesn't it) TD noticed that a lot of the locals at Carne had switched to Guiness "0", the zero alchohol, 50...
Wo-back Wednesday - July, 2022 - ON TO SCOTLAND!
A Camper's View TD DOEST THINK THAT REMEMBERING FROM WHENCE YOU CAME IS IMPORTANT. DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER AND A MORE INCLEMENT SHOULDER INJURY, HE RE-VISITS EARLIER POSTS---------------------As...
Wo-back Wednesday - July, 2022 - ON TO SCOTLAND!
A Camper's View TD DOEST THINK THAT REMEMBERING FROM WHENCE YOU CAME IS IMPORTANT. DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER AND A MORE INCLEMENT SHOULDER INJURY, HE RE-VISITS EARLIER POSTS---------------------As...
HAPPY MLK DAY TO MS OPAL LEE
If you ever want to feel like you're in the presence of a real peacemaker, you need to travel no further than Fort Worth, Texas, where, if your luck is...
HAPPY MLK DAY TO MS OPAL LEE
If you ever want to feel like you're in the presence of a real peacemaker, you need to travel no further than Fort Worth, Texas, where, if your luck is...
A FROWN IS JUST A SMILE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
*For readers who have contacted him from across the pond, TD would normally suggest that you remain calm. But how do you suggest calmness to friends when, daily, it is...
A FROWN IS JUST A SMILE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
*For readers who have contacted him from across the pond, TD would normally suggest that you remain calm. But how do you suggest calmness to friends when, daily, it is...
TD Hears Someone (Dor)noch-ing!
SCOTLAND 2026 - Well, it's all set! TD and buddy Timmy (and Minnesotan, Rochester Randy, not pictured) are returning to Dornoch in 2026. TD's 2025 appearance here was less than...
TD Hears Someone (Dor)noch-ing!
SCOTLAND 2026 - Well, it's all set! TD and buddy Timmy (and Minnesotan, Rochester Randy, not pictured) are returning to Dornoch in 2026. TD's 2025 appearance here was less than...
BARTY-BART TAKES (AND BRINGS) THE CAKE
* One of the TD’s only desires as he went into hiding for the winter was a request that most excellent golfer and cake baker, Barty-Bart, bake him a cake....
BARTY-BART TAKES (AND BRINGS) THE CAKE
* One of the TD’s only desires as he went into hiding for the winter was a request that most excellent golfer and cake baker, Barty-Bart, bake him a cake....
Duffer Update
THE TRAVELING DUFFER KEEPS ON "DUFFING" TOWARD 2026 with E-Commerce
Now in its sixth year, the Traveling Duffer (TD) website and blog, once again reinvents itself as not only a historical account of years of hope for the aging, but also as a site where like-minded old (and maybe even a few young) people can learn not only about quality links golf offerings, but also experience new signs of toward life lessons...or something like that.
TD started posting just after a trip to The Presidents Cup in Melbourne, Australia in 2019. Covid was knocking at The World's door and Australia was on fire. Yet, the TD felt there was a brighter story to be told. Now, some 200 blog posts and (maybe) tens of thousands of view later, the TD site is taking on a new look, a new angle, a new life, as everyone needs to reinvent themselves to allay stagnation...and possible deportation.
Going forward, you'll be able to wear the TD close to your head and heart with a significant array of apparel, travel suggestions, hacks, facks and quacks in a medium which only an aging duffer can conjure.
TD began his golf travel experiences in the late 1980's with a group of already aging golfers, many who have gone to that great driving range in the sky. He prided himself as someone who could hang these serious duffers while maintaining his youthful stature in the group. Today, he is one of the older statesmen of a group which, even with substantial attrition, has grown to nearly 50 golfers. That's how popular duffing actually is.
Perpetuating an image built out of the right to play mediocre golf in significant locations around the world seems to be the ongoing charge of The Traveling Duffer. Age and mediocrity, levity and now increasing brevity, are all soldiers in a battle being fought within a very tough sport and playing thousands of rounds with hundreds of new and old friends is the true gift of a full (golfing) life.
"... right at the end we'll put a flat piece with a flag to give you xxxxing hope"
Robin Williams