Riding and Blogging

I'm currently riding a bus from St Andrews to Edinburgh.  For some odd reason I'm getting free wireless on the bus.  So I decided to write a post just on the ride.  I also made a little day by day "diary" last night at the pub waiting for the Masters to come on.  You can read it here.  Golf was great, I got on right away in the morning (7:30) and played with 3 Finnish guys.  They were nice but not necessarily good golfers.  I think they had the same problem that I have, that we haven't played golf in 6 months.  Despite not getting any warm up or a single practice put, I managed to massage one down the middle, knock it on the green, and two put for an opening hole par.  I played fine on the front, carding one birdie and 5 bogeys.  The wind was with us the whole way on the front, which made the holes play much shorter.  After rounding the turn the wind was now in our faces the whole way back, making 380 yard par 4's not reachable in two.  My short game struggled with the rental clubs but I scraped in a 44 on the back nine.  I didn't think that 84 was too bad, although I could have scored much better.  I certainly have the itch to golf now because all I wanted to do after playing was to play again.  Today I'm going to check out the Rosslyn Chapel from Dan Brown's novel, The DaVinci Code.  Then tomorrow I'm going to take a 2 day highlands bus tour.  It turns out it is a similar price to take a bus tour with many stops than it is for me to travel up there by myself with no tour guide or the ability to take stops.