{"id":2088,"date":"2016-06-05T08:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2016-06-06T06:17:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:17:28","slug":"a-international-news-roundup-from-travel-tattler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/golf\/courses-and-travel\/2088\/a-international-news-roundup-from-travel-tattler","title":{"rendered":"An International News Roundup From Travel Tattler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The view from the Walnut Hills veranda and banquet room is a scenic panorama<\/p><\/div>\n

-Rumors of the passing of Walnut Hills Country Club were \u201cgreatly exaggerated,\u201d to repeat a famous quote. East Lansing native Mark Feldman, who\u2019s been wildly successful in the tech sector and resides in California, has returned home to serve as managing director and invest the\u00a0resources needed to keep the gorgeous club open, at friendly membership prices, for this summer and likely beyond. Golf industry whiz Cary Campbell, who has worked on courses and clubs with the likes of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, has consulted with the Michigan State University Golf team, and helped open College Fields, in Lansing,\u00a0and Bay Harbor Golf Club, in Petoskey, is working with Feldman. Various levels of golf, pool and social memberships are available by contacting the club.<\/p>\n

-There were more deaths once again high atop Mt. Everest this May. What\u2019s seen as a \u201cbucket list\u201d adventure sometimes turns deadly and gives the phrase an even grimmer, unintended meaning. A \u201cbucket list\u201d item is something you want to do before you \u201ckick the bucket,\u201d but in the case of climbing Everest, engaging in the activity actually caused the bitter end. And bitter it is, according to Northern Michigan\u2019s Lou Kasischke, who, 20 years ago, turned back within 500 vertical feet of reaching the \u201croof of the world\u201d and in doing so, saved his life\u2026barely\u2026while eight others perished.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was there and I lived the horror of it. My water bottles were frozen blocks of ice; the temperature was 30-below zero; and I was fighting malnutrition with ice caked on my face. Sheer will kept me going: breathe, gasp, shift my weight\u2026then step. I was far above the clouds \u2013 almost six miles high on a narrow ridge with snow whipping around me and wind that sounded like low-flying jets,\u201d writes Kasischke, of Harbor Springs, in his book \u201cAfter the Wind: the 1996 Everest Tragedy \u2013 One Survivor\u2019s Story.\u201d<\/p>\n

-If your bucket list item is to ride at high-speeds in an open wheel race car behind a professional driver at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, you can do it. Just be aware that during your two laps around the famed \u201cBrickyard\u201d track at 180 mph you\u2019ll be virtually immobilized, snapped into\u00a0a makeshift back seat and strapped into a six-way seat belt. In other words, it is not for the claustrophobic!<\/p>\n

-Prince\u2019s passing is provoking tales of his fanciful life in show business and his eccentricities. Annette Anderson, manager of Stars\u2019N\u2019Bars, a sports bar in Monaco, tells me that when Prince performed a surprise concert in her popular facility in 1994, the setting was intimate but the music star was not. \u201cHe was very aloof. Nobody was allowed to talk to him. Prince, particularly, refused to have any contact with anybody,\u201d she said. \u201cHis staff went through and took anybody\u2019s cameras or phones to prevent any recording. It was a bit rough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Michael Patrick Shiels may be contacted at\u00a0<\/em>InviteYourself@aol.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 His talk show can be heard weekday mornings in\u00a0Lansing\u00a0on 92.1 FM. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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