One of my bosses at Greenbriar called me in February to tell me that he landed a job as Superintendent at Wolf Hollow Golf Course near Washington, Missouri, and asked me to come work for him starting mid March. I had gone over and taken a look at the course two weeks before he offered me the job, and talked to him about it then, and decided to give it a shot. I gave Walmart my two weeks notice mid February and decided to drive out to southwest New Mexico and do some rockhunting with my group the first week of March…I have an extensive story written with photos and video on that trip on my rockhunting blog site, https://www.jwjrocks.com 

If you are ever interested in another location besides Florida where the winters are very mild, and you can handle the different vegetation out there, you should consider Arizona or New Mexico…our daily temps started out about 35 to 40 degrees and quickly warmed to 65 to 70 degrees during the day. That is an area that receives little precipitation as well, the google search I did back in January when I was researching the potential trip, told me that their annual rainfall is like a tenth of an inch a year…they had a little more than that this spring, and the Border Patrol Officers we had breakfast with every morning at the Denny`s Restaurant, told us this was a little unusual weather wise. One drawback might be the rattlesnakes that this area of the USA is known for, but luckily we did not see any this trip…the officers told us we were there too early if we wanted to see them…they normally do not see them til April or May. They do have spectacular scenery out there this time of the year, some hillsides were covered on all sides by some very pretty yellow flowers and there are beautiful flowering cactus out there as well. 

Check out my other site for the whole story. 🙂