It doesn't cost anything to pay attention.

It all seems surreal, ... It was a long, tough road, but I learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way. I struggled and hit a lot of obstacles in the road, but I think those times only made me a stronger person.

That sure as fuck ain't no cow

The snow was piled up about six inches high on the side on the road. We had to go about 25 miles an hour for that entire trip. We didn't get home until about 3 a.m.

[But it is the unexpected twists, golf aficionados say, that make golfing on the road so memorable. Not long ago, Scott Foster, a lawyer who works for FTI Consulting in Annapolis, Md., spotted a fox on the East Potomac Park Golf Course in Washington, within walking distance of the Jefferson Memorial.] It couldn't have been 50 feet from me, ... There's nothing but you and the ball and nature all around you.

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.