St. Augustine is nice. I'll have to go back though. I only saw the time share and some cool shops in town. I need to go back with unlimited time and unlimited funds. Or at least less limits on each.
The place had to be settled by a mix of Spanish and Scottish. You've got the architecture stemming from Spanish influence and the place is full of golfers, which was invented by the Scottish.
Seems perfectly logical that the Scottish would invent golf. It's a game you take up to relax, but is really hard to master (Scottish do everything the hard way); you play with the intention of relaxing, but get raging mad and throw your clubs at a tree; you drink ('nuff said) and drive your golf cart into the lake. OK, when it was invented, I don't think there were golf carts, but still...you get the picture, right?
I wonder how they came up with the name golf. I can't help thinking about Caddy Shack and Bill Murray's boss talking about gophers. I wonder if it really started because some big, drunk Scot was tired of gophers digging up his yard and started whacking little balls at their heads, deciding that if it went into the gopher's hole, he won something. OK, don't anybody take these words as gospel. It's early and I haven't had any coffee yet.
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