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	Gun Tips Militaria High powered rifle shooting notes
European Travel American travel Caribbean travel	Architecture Gardening Fine Dining Home improvement	Conventional High Powered Rifle Competition Training

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

• Celebrity Solstice independent cruise ship review

• Transatlantic cruising tips

• Redneck Review: Grandeur of the Seas

• RFID tracking on cruise ships

• 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!
  
  

• Cruise ship suite cost tips
  
  

• British American Auctions

European Travel:

• Waterspout at sea

• Rome travel tips

• Pisa Italy travel photos

• Monaco travel photos

• Madiera Portugal travel tips

• La Spezia photos

• Cartagena Spain Travel Tips

• Barcelona Spain travel tips

• 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

US and 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

• Tucson travel Tips

• The Coney Island freak show

• Tips for San Francisco dining & fun

• Oahu insider tips

• Maui Travel Tips

• Space Shuttle launch - STS-129

• Greenbrier Resort Independent Review

• Yellowstone & Teton National Parks

 

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

• Grand Turk 2010

• The monkeys of Grenada

• The potcake puppy on St. Vincent

• Finding a safe Taxi Cab Driver in the Dominican Republic

• TCI Fall 2011

 

• Aruba

• Curacao - snorkeling

• Grenada tour tips

• Barbados tour tips

• St. Vincent travel

• St. Kitts golf and tourism

• St. Thomas

• Santo Domingo - Dominican Republic
   

Golf articles:

• Country Club tipping guidelines for the Holiday Season

• 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 golf 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

• Mastering the perfect putt

• Choosing the best fairway wood

• The best Raleigh Golf Instructor

• Golf tips for Northern California

• Golf tips for Oregon coast

• Breaking 80 in golf

• Henderson Country Club Links

• New 2010 golf pitching wedge groove rule

• Best 2010 golf wedges

• Top 2010 golf irons for mid handicappers

• How to hit a wedge from a hard lie

 

 

Unique Golf course reviews:

• Paako Golf New Mexico

• The Raven

• Royal Links

• Death Valley Furnace Creek - The worlds lowest golf course

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

• Palmetto Dines Robert Trent Jones golf course

• Tucson El Conquistador Golf Course review

• Tucson Starr Pass golf course review

• Pebble Beach golf for first time players

• Pebble Beach golf for high handicapper beginners

• Golf on the Monterey Peninsula

• Golf at Pacific Grove

• Golfing on St. Maarten

• Teton Pines Country Club: Independent golf review

• Jackson Hole Golf Club: Independent golf review

Architecture & Landscaping

• Roman column ideas on cruise ship

• The best topiary plant material

• 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

• Unborn cloned meat products

• The best Trattoria in Rome

• 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

• Tucson New Mexican Food Tips

• Inside the ice hotel and ice bar

• Buy New Mexico food online

• Henderson North Carolina best restaurants

• Henderson North Carolina wedding receptions

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

• Pouring a home foundation slab

• Custom bathroom ideas

• Coffered ceiling examples

• Custom staircase ideas

• Custom home elevator ideas

• Colored glass block bathroom ideas

• Hidden door examples

• Ornate Eastlake Bed headboard design

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

• Investing in a classic Rolls Royce

• Classic car investment tips

• Tips to quit smoking

• The world's smallest Appaloosa!

• Army Air Corp Wings list

• Scuba diving nosebleed tips

• The three life stages of the American Professional

• Elderly being eaten by pets

• Real life south park kids!

• The Charming Youngsters 2010 tour

• Ear lobe creases predict heart attacks

• How to display military medals

• How General Douglas MacArthur won the Distinguished Flying Cross

• Stolen Valor Arrests

• Stolen Valor within the military

• Why does bad credit affect employment?

• Inappropriate English homonym usage!

• Employer responsibility for employee misconduct

• Criminal Misrepresentation and the Latham Act

• Tom Thumb & Dan Doodle Sausage

• The Don Burleson bucket list

• Finding an anonymous blog commenter’s true identity

• Bloggers are sued for allowing blog comments

• Limits to the First Amendment

• America’s worst General: Douglas MacArthur

• Don Burleson life lessons

• Top golf school in South Carolina

• DMCA fair use and commercial nature limits

• Mansion Fireplace examples

• Funny product placements

• Skin wound healing process

• Keeping deer out of your garden

• Louis F. Burleson and Virginia Burleson photos

• Louis F. Burleson and Virginia Burleson photos

• Louis F. Burleson and Virginia G. Burleson photos

• Andy Burleson becomes an MBA!

• Lulu facilitates plagiarism

• Best Tropical Watercolor Art

• Y-DNA I1-M253 Haplogroup

• Pronunciation of the surname Koenig

• Art Deco stained glass ideas

• Jennifer Anne Burleson: UNM MBA Class Address 2012

• The Stained Glass Center of Raleigh North Carolina

 

 

Gun Notes:

• Best low caliber target rifle

• Fancy rifle racks

• The best .22 target pistols

• Fix Ruger .22 Mark III Jamming

• Fixing Jamming in .22 Semi-automatic Guns

• Rifle Range build

• NRA Light Rifle Qualification checklist

• NRA Handgun Qualification checklist

• Download pistol & handgun targets

• Best 22 caliber target bullets

• The world's most powerful pistol

• Most accurate ammo bullets for a CZ-452

• Most accurate 22 ammo bullets for a Ruger Mark III handgun

• Most accurate 22 ammo bullets for a Savage 64 rifle

• The best most accurate semi-automatic handguns

• The best concealed carry handgun

• The Sig Twosome!

• The most accurate single shot pistol

• Using Excessive Lethal Force in Personal Defense

• Can you be killed by a falling bullet?

• Dating a Winchester Model 1890 - .22 Short rifle

• Best beginner skeet gun

• Best beginner trap gun

• North Carolina trap and skeet shooting club

• Finding the best 38 ammo

• Decot trap glasses

• Art Deco USA Flag stained glass ideas

• Stained Glass Center of Raleigh

 

AR Notes

• Stacking AR-15 rifle sights

• Range and Trajectory of .223 AR-15 rifle bullets

• Bolt Action vs. semi-automatic .223 rifles

• 223 rifle competition notes

• The most accurate .223 target rifles

• Best AR15 target rifles

• Mounting a rifle sight on an AR-15 or M-4

• The difference between "Mil Spec" and "match grade" gun quality

• Making a "match grade" AR-15 for shooting competitions

 

Skeet/Trap notes

• Building a home trap/skeet range

 

High-powered rifle match competition notes

• Long Distance rifle training class

• Long Distance rifle competition notes

• Civilian sniper training

• Building a Home long distance rifle shooting range

• Rifling twist rates and bullet accuracy

• NRA High Powered Rifle Qualification checklist

• Download rifle targets

• Recommended vendors to buy guns

• Long Range rifle competition notes

• Reloading your own bullets

• High powered rifle accessories

• Rifle tools

• How to fire lap a rifle

• Best Conventional High-Powered target rifle competition telescopic sights

• Rifle Ballistics for beginners

• Andrew Burleson Rifle shooting at 1,000 yards - Bullseye!

• F-TR Rifle components

• Gupton's guns Henderson North Carolina

Militaria Notes

• WWII Japanese silk prayer flag tips

• Original WWII German flag tips

• Original WWII Blood Chit tips

Genealogy 

 

• Genealogy home page

• Burleson military family history

• J. A. Burns (Jack)

• Leopold Francis Burns (Leo)

• Polly Burns (Polly Fairclough) - World champion lady boxer

• Thomas Burns (Tommy)

• Genealogy of James Vespasian Burleson

• Genealogy of John Wesley Burleyson

• Louis F. Burleson - Lt. Col. Louis Burleson

• Rosaline Burns

• Virginia Geraldine Burleson

 

 

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 to the left.

 

 

 

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