Fort Huachuca

Sunday, 16 December

Forecast was for an overcast, chilly, breezy day.  The kind of day you don’t want to be in a hurry to do anything outside.  The kind of day where a post like this:


Seems to be something worth deviating from the travel plan to go find.  Unless you have golf on the brain.

Our destination was a whole 30 minutes from Tombstone, and conveniently, passed by a Walmart for getting groceries.

When we got to Fort Huachuca, an Army base in Sierra Vista, AZ, we headed for the FamCamp, Apache Flats RV Park, to see if they had any sites available for the night.  The RV park has great reviews, and certainly lived up to the reviews.  We found vacant campsites, but the office was closed for the weekend, and no indication on how to do a self-checkin.  We saw a camper out for a walk, and asked her if there was a host.  She told us the camp host left on 1 December.  She and her husband suggested we pick a site and settle up at the office in the morning.

Knowing we could stay at the FamCamp, we headed for the base golf course.  Interestingly, we had to exit the base to get to the golf course.  As the course is open to the public (as most military base golf courses are), they have constructed a different access road so you don’t have to go through the security gate to the base to get to the golf course.

The golf course (and FamCamp) are certainly picturesque, even on an overcast day.


Being a chilly day worked to our favor in that we were able to get on without having made a tee time despite it being a weekend.  After warming up, we start off.  Darrell opened with a birdie to Kris’ par.  Kris tied it up after three holes.  We both played well, with Darrell up by 3 strokes at the turn.  Darrell started off on the back nine with four pars in a row, setting the bar high.  Kris continued to hit her drives well, with one drive over 200 yards.  The breeze picked up towards the end making it chillier, and play was frustratingly slow.  We both felt like our best shots just weren't happening as we got chilled.  And just as we were finishing, it started raining.  After the last ball dropped in the 18th hole, Darrell had honors.

Next up was a visit to the Starbucks nearby on the base to pay up.  With the unexpected rain, we were grateful to have only a couple minutes drive to the base FamCamp for the evening.  Not only were the facilities first-rate, especially for a military FamCamp, the WiFi was nearly Xfinity quality, allowing us to stream the Golf Channel and NFL football.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Rockies Caravan - Part 5 - Dinosaurs and Flaming Gorge - STR-2021…

Image
Sunday, 28 August After several clear days without smoke/haze, the smoke is back. As we headed north from Moab at 7am, the sun looked like a red ball in the sky - very different from the sunrise we watched two days ago. Today's itinerary was repositioning to Vernal, UT, about 230 miles north. The recommended route was to remain in Utah and take US 191. Our Wagonmaster said not to take the route through Colorado as the roads were worse. A quick check of the recommended route saw that it went through Helper, UT, home of the Carbon Country Club Golf Course. Conveniently located about 2 hours from Moab and 2 hours from Vernal. By leaving Moab at 7am, we arrived early at the golf course and were able to take advantage of a cancellation to start earlier than our scheduled tee time. The course was nice and in good condition. We both had a mix of good hits and ones we wished we could do over. Darrell managed to lead at the turn. Kris played the back nine better, but...
Read more

Camp Blanding Joint Training Center

Image
Trying to plan today last night was loose at best as all the weather apps we use indicated 40% chance of rain, or higher.  Both where we played golf yesterday, as well as where we were headed.  There seemed to be a dip in the rain likelihood between 9am and noon around Starke, FL as well as warmer temperatures forecast, so we decided to get an early start and drive the 2 hours down to Starke, FL, where there were two different 9-hole courses to select from. Woke up to 55 degrees in Waycross and were on the road about 7:30.  We plugged in directions for the closer of the two courses which had slightly better reviews figuring that if it was closed or crowded, we could wander over to the other course.  We enjoyed 4-lane roads (65mph speed limit) till we got to the Florida border, as well as temperatures climbing as we went further south.  On the way down, Kris checked for a Starbucks near Starke, FL, and found there weren’t any. ...
Read more

Ridgway-Ourey-Silverton-Telluride, CO - STR-2021-15

Image
Sunday, 4 July Not very long after getting Sprinty settled in the Pa—Co-Chu-Puk campground, we got a text from Tom saying they were settled in their campsite in the Elk Ridge Campground. We broke camp to drive to one of the three other campground loops at Ridgway State Park to plan the week. Tom offered to drive their truck if Darrell would plan the week. After sharing ideas and reviewing what was open, when, we came up with a plan for each of the next four days. Monday, 5 July - Silverton As Sprinty is sleeping in four different places in five nights, he had to vacate his site while his humans went off adventuring with Tom and Heidi.   The plan was to park Sprinty in the state park marina as checkin for Sprinty's next site was not until afternoon. Tom and Heidi were going to pick us up there in their truck at 8:30 for a day of adventuring. All set, we started off for Silverton, CO. For about 200 feet. Tom and Heidi's Ford F-150 had the AdvanceTrac li...
Read more