Dan and I got married in 2014 and didn’t take a honeymoon. Before we decided that every year we would celebrate by golfing in another state, we decided to take a long one year anniversary trip. I am not sure how we picked the location, but it was one I was VERY familiar with; San Francisco, CA. I grew up just an hour east in the valley, and I went to college just over the bridge in Hayward.
I went all out when planning this trip, I wanted to show Dan all the sights – and by sights, I mean the places I grew up with, went to school to, visited as a child. We had Alcatraz, Fisherman’s Wharf, Sonoma, Hayward and Tracy on deck for the trip.
The whole point of this though, is in 2015 we checked California off of our bucket list and golfed in San Francisco twice. Now, although I grew up in California, I definitely did not recall that the weather in the bay is much different then the weather I grew up in. Tracy was hot in the summer, barely ever rained, very dry. San Francisco … not so much. Gray every morning, it was typically cool when we decided to golf and the sun rarely came out.
Our first course was full of four-leaf clovers, everywhere we went it was wet and sloppy, and overall while it was a nice course, the weather didn’t pan out as nice. We made the most of it with some music, beers and laughs of course.
The second course we decided to play stated they had the “best view of the Golden Gate” from hole 17. Well, when we got to hole 17, the fog and clouds were so thick, we wouldn’t have even known a bridge was there! It made for a funny little video we posted on social media, and we made the most of it. Of course, once the clouds cleared and the sun came out we did make it to see the Golden Gate Bridge and get a few pictures.
Overall our California golf trip was one that we truly enjoyed, because we got to pack a lot into the trip; we caught up with old friends and family, we toured the area, went to a few wineries and made some great memories together.
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