Denise and Rick Cunningham

Like many boomers we're planning the "next chapter". We live a fairly chaotic life in Georgetown in Washington DC. I'm a former fashion executive and journalist. Rick's an engineer and computer scientist. We're about ready for a little change of pace. Travel... perhaps moving to warmer climes ...and definitely savoring more moments. We never set out to buy an RV...matter of fact, we had never even been in one and I definitely don't camp. But, now, with more time and a growing aversion to the insults of air travel, we bought a 40' motor coach. Our grandson, Ian, named it Gigantor. We call it Tor for short.

We're seeing things you just can't from the air and finding that we've so much to discover on this continent. In the past two years, we've taken three marvelous six-week trips. This time, we're "chasing the sun for as long as it fun". We left on October 5, 2009. We'll see how long we last!

We're searching for great places to stay, sights worth seeing, golf courses worth playing, great restaurants, shopping, farmer's markets. We're on the road in search of the high road.


Saturday, October 20, 2007

Keswick Country Club



Fortunately the day dawns beautiful, we have a 1 p.m. tee time. We head over about 11 to hit balls and have lunch. We sit on the Palmer Room terrace overlooking the course and have a terrific meal. Rick has an Asian Chicken Salad and I, an extraordinary tomato tart. We linger a bit, then head to the tee.


This is a private course so you need to make arrangements through your club or stay at the Keswick Hall. Staying at the Inn is a treat...do it if you can. Our favorite room is #1. Said to be the Laura Ashley room, where she stayed while decorating the inn. (It was formerly owned by her and her husband. Now it's an Orient Express Hotel.)


The course is pretty quiet since it's the end of October. This is a good resort course. Challenging enough, but pretty wide open to keep the pace of play up. Again we don't have a very stellar day, but the views are wonderful and the weather is glorious.

We head back to Gordonsville and decide to have dinner at the hotel. Very, very casual and unexpectedly, very crowded. The food is better than we had expected and the wait staff is charming.

After dinner we wander around the hotel and discover a huge game room, pools and a gym. Kids would enjoy it.


Posted by Denise and Rick Cunningham on Saturday, October 20, 2007

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