Postponed....

For at least the past four years, when the first of December rolls around, its time for the annual golf trip. Four days and three nights on St. Simons Island for golf on the mostly deserted courses of southeast coastal Georgia. This is a perfect vacation for a golf nut. A long drive across south Georgia to the Brunswick area, the last half of the trip usually in the dark, rushing to make the local seafood buffet at the King & Prince resort.

The next morning we started 3 days of golf in whatever weather there was at the time. A full breakfast buffet at the Sea Palms resort and then 18 or 36 holes of birdies, pars and bogies. Well, mostly pars, bogies and double-bogies actually. But golf in December at a resort community is a wonderful experience.

The last few years we would drive over to Jekyll Island on Sunday for 36 holes on the tracks over there. We usually have the course almost to ourselves - and the deer and alligators. If we can avoid a dispute with the strong-willed waitresses at the snack bar for lunch, its a wonderful visit to a truly historic golf venue.

Dinners in the evenings would range from the locals favorites to the slabs of rare beef at Outback. On the last morning we would squeeze in 18 final holes before the long drive back home. The trip back was almost always quiet, since I would be the only one awake.

Due to conflicting schedules and other non-golf related issues, we didn't make the trip this year. It felt very odd not making that long drive across south Georgia with making it before they shut down the seafood buffet as our goal. Next year, we'll find a way to work out everything and make that trip.