from the U.S.-Mexico Border in Texas to the U.S.-Canada border
in North Dakota. Also, this week’s guest, Joe Grezlik, would
like you to know we’re 281 days until Christmas from this
episode’s publication date.
What seems a lifetime ago now, I was a nervous 18-year-old freshman in college moving into the ground floor of Eastern Michigan University‘s Phelps Hall for my first year of college.
One of the first people I met that day was the fella who lived next door to me that year, Joe Grezlik.
My memories of our first interaction are, frankly, fuzzy.
What I do recall from that school year 40 years ago was that Joe almost always seemed to either have a golf club in his hands or have one within reach.
What I never did that year, so far as I can remember, is take the time to learn why Joe almost always had a club with him.
Until now!
I spied a social media post from Joe recently in which he had a few photos from the annual PGA Show in the Orange County (CA) Convention Center. Intrigued, I sent him a message to see if he’d like to join me on Conversations.
The results are what you’ll hear in this episode when you’ll find out how a chance encounter with Al Kaline made a fan of Joe for life not to mention that time he interacted with Arnold Palmer. We learn how golf became so important to Joe as well as why it is once again he pursues his PGA of America Membership.
What I failed to do on this episode was discover why he’s so enamored with counting down to the Christmas holiday and how he goes about choosing the images he uses affilated to the days left each year. (The Route 281 sign above is all my doing and I hope Joe approves:-)
The longest two digit highway is us route 20. It runs from Newport, Oregon and ends in Boston mass. 3,375 miles total.
Have a blessed day old friend.
Thank you for this outstanding nugget of information, Vince! I hope you, too, are well.