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Play early or late. Early is higher humidity and lower temp. Late lower humidity and higher temps but usually higher wind.

Drink an electrolyte water bottle on the drive to the course. Have a styro of ice and water that I typically drink every 2-3 holes plus a Gatorade at the turn. Find shade whenever possible.


Two older guys I play with will not hit out of a sand trap in the summer due to the heat.


In the dog days I’ll just play 9. But I typically play three times a week so i don’t have to try ito get In 18 if its crazy hot.

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Bad.
Collins should have been relishing the opportunity to run against Platner.

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she was losing in every poll against him. I was just in Maine two weeks ago and saw 100 Planter signs for every Collins sign. Coastal Maine (where most of the people live) is about as liberal a place as you can find in the country.

MFAH is fantastic with three buildings of art.

Museum of Natural Science is also fantastic

Menil is free - and while smaller it's a nice setting - also has Rothko Chapel

Bayou Bend and Rienzi are historic homes with grounds that have been turned into museums. Nice when the weather is great.

Lone Star flight museums at Ellington Airport is really nice if you're into aviation

only had one horse fly tear a hole in my calf while biking. Otherwise we had no issues at all.

Just got back from a week in Maine. Beautiful country.

- We stayed in Bar Harbor at The Balance Rock Inn and could not have enjoyed it more. Unbelievable location right near the town, but our own parking, and right on the ocean path. Breakfast every day was great, staff were all outstanding and had a great dinner at their restaurant The Veranda.
- had drinks at Bar Harbor Inn one evening - also beautiful - but much much larger a property than Balance Rock
- the town is nice but mostly t-shirt shops and kitsch stores. Some really good restaurant and bars though. Loved dinner at Tap and Barrel and Pizza at Rosalies (we saw people all week walking around with their pizza boxes so we had to try it the last night), and it was a nice change from seafood.
- The Ivey front yard for drinks, and Finback Alehouse were nice.
- Rented fat tire e-bikes from Acadia Fat Tire Bikes. This was the highlight of the trip - a full day riding the carriage roads in Acadia National Park
- saw one of the greatest sunsets of our lives the first night in bar harbor down on the ocean front. Also did the sunset at Cadillac Mountain but a low level cloud bank on the horizon sort of spoiled it that night. Still amazing views from the top.
- did the park one day using the free bus system and it was nice but very crowded.
- lots of lobster rolls - Bar Harbor Pound and the Ice Cream boat, Beals, and Thurston's. All great.
Drove all over Mount Desert Island - NE Harbor, SW Harbor, Bass Harbor, Seawall, etc. The smaller harbors away from Bar Harbor were really nice.
-drove the coast all the way back to Boston and really liked Wiscasset, Kennebunkport, and Ogonquit, but traffic is an issue on weekends.
- had simply amazing raw oysters a few nights - so briny. Wish I could have a dozen right now.
- We had a sunset cruise lined up but got cancelled due to heavy fog that day. That was the main regret that we did not get on the water. Also, would have liked to explore Schoodic Point, and maybe take a ferry to one of the far out islands or Canada.

- I would go back to Maine in a heartbeat. Some things I would do would be get on the water - sail, lobster boat experience, fish. Would do more hikes away from the main tourist part of the park. Would eat a full lobster instead of rolls. Would have steamed clams. Would move inland to one of the lakes and do some boating and fishing.

It's an interesting place.

They should go back and review the game tape after each game and yellow card players who obviously flopped with little or no contact and the result was a change of ball possession (I.e. they fooled the referee)

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I feel like I’m having Déjà vu from when aggy signed that star studded class a few years back. That one didn’t go well. We’ll see what happens with this one with so many big name guys in one class.

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Jimbo was a lazy star chaser. In hindsight a lot of people knew that quite a few of those kids were going to be issues - especially with the cultural that Jimbo created. I think (and hope) that Elko has an entirely different culture. But the proof is in the perfromance. we shall see.

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Haven’t played it, but I hear the historic resort in Cashiers is public tee times

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I don’t think this is true but I’m very interested if it is.

Closest place to Highlands for public golf is Sky Valley, Ga.

Highlands is a wasteland for public courses unfortunately.