Travel, Golf and Professional Leisure Articles Travel Tips by Burleson Consulting

These pages are intended to serve as an unbiased resource for the independent professional at leisure, and alternative to the hyperbole and drivel that has become so common on the web.

Cruising Tips Cruise Ship Reviews	Golf tips Golf Reviews
European Travel American travel Caribbean travel	Architecture Gardening Fine Dining Home improvement

All of the reviews on these pages document my firsthand experiences traveling the globe and all of my recommendations are made without any influence or bias. I seek novelty and unique travel experiences, far from the schmaltz and teaming hoards of tourists. 

As you read my reviews, please note that my Momma taught me “If you cannot say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”.  I don’t miss much, so please read between the lines.  If you find something obvious missing from my travel recommendations, there is probably a very good reason. 
 

Cruising articles:  Here are some selection from our Cruise Reviews

• Crown Princess 2008-2009 cruise ship review

• Transatlantic cruising tips

• Redneck Review: Grandeur of the Seas

• RFID tracking on cruise ships

Cruise Ship Reviews:

• Cruise ship Art Auctions - Scams, Frauds or bargains?

• Cruise Ship mechanical failure problems & missed ports

• Cruise Ship shore excursion tour refunds

• Cruise ship doctors: Malpractice on the high seas?

• Redneck cruises!

European Travel:

• Qaqortoq Greenland - WIP - TO FINISH

• Canterbury England

• Dublin Ireland Travel tips - WIP - TO FINISH

• Belfast Ireland Travel Tips - WIP - TO FINISH

• Amsterdam Holland travel tips - WIP - TO FINISH

• Groningen Holland travel tips - WIP - TO FINISH

• Copenhagen Denmark Tips - WIP - TO FINISH

• Canterbury England Tips - WIP - TO FINISH

North America Travel:

• Northern Lights Viewing Tips - WIP - TO FINISH

• St. John's Newfoundland tips - WIP - TO FINISH

• Room Service for hotel pets

• Banff Springs Tour Tips

• Little Big Horn tour tips

• Broadmoor Resort Tips

• Montana Travel Tips

• Death Valley Tour Tips

• Las Vegas Travel Tips

• New York City Travel Tips - WIP - TO FINISH

• New York City Best Restaurants - WIP - TO FINISH

• San Francisco Best Restaurants - WIP - TO FINISH

 

Caribbean Travel Tips

• Jamaica Insider Travel Tips

• Grand Bahamas

• Nassau

• The green flash at sunset

• The Turks and Caicos Islands Insider Tips

• Turks & Caicos, Grand Turk Island

• Santiago Chile Travel Tips

• Buenos Aires travel tips

• Tips for Cruising the Panama Canal

• Puerto Rico Insider Travel Tips

• USVI Virgin Islands, St. Thomas Insider Travel Tips

• St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands
   

Golf articles:

• Golf Tips for the Bermuda Southampton course

• Bermuda Golf Tips

• Residential Golf fairway turf design

• Broadmoor Golf Tips

• Golf scoring: Maximum strokes per hole

• Top golf school in North Carolina - The best gold school in North Carolina

• Burleson Arabians Custom Golf Course

• Evaluating moral turpitude with Golf

• The best golf instructor in North Carolina

• Raleigh golf instructor tips

• Golf Analysis: Fixing the inside-out swing

• Golf ball speed limits

• The amazing Moe Norman

• Building a residential golf course

• Tips for joining a country club

• Choosing the best golf tees

• Choosing the best putter

 

 

Unique Golf course reviews:

• The Raven

• Royal Links

• Death Valley Furnace Creek - The world’s lowest golf course

• Angel Park Cloud Nine - The world's best par 3

Architecture & Landscaping

• Roman column ideas on cruise ship

• The best topiary plant material

• Broadmoor architectural & Landscape ideas

• Architectural Square Balustrade

• Custom Conservatory ideas

• Building a custom dog house

• Fake palm tree & pine tree tower disguises

Gardening

• Bonsai Cultivation Reference Tips - WIP - TO FINISH

• Indoor Gardening Tips - WIP - TO FINISH

 

Fine Dining

• Miracle Fruit flavor tripping!

• America's best redneck cuisine

• Joel Robuchon - A flash in Le Pan?

• A Yard of Ale

• World's best Huevos Rancheros

• Tips for eating guinea pigs

• Growing North Carolina Truffles

• Inside the ice hotel and ice bar

Home improvement

• Building an in-ground residential swimming pool

• The perils of home golf

• Custom burl wood furniture

• Pricing a home swimming pool

• Targeting online advertising with zip code demographics

• Redneck lawn ornaments

• Kitchen Islands

• Custom home ideas

Misc notes:

• China fraud asked people to sign contract in China

• Why dogs hate Halloween!

• Fake Indians invade Europe!

• The best Halloween Pumpkins!

• Family Guy Sings! At Carnegie Hall

• Detecting fake Chinese Rolex watches

• Running the Outer Banks Marathon

• Inside the South Park pinball machine

• American Xenophobia

• American Express card colors

 

 

Threading the needle. . .

 

Proper alignment:

 

 

 

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Video links:

 

A common swing problem, the outside-in swing (as noted at start of downswing.  This is caused by a too-late weight shift left.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2boCD1gTTC4

 

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