And as for my game?
While its really just hitting its stride, Ive already started planning out the indoor season.
Enter the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Photo: Courtesy of Hilton Head Island / Bluffton Chamber of Commerce
I know, I know: What happened?
Absolutely nothingwe never saw the gator again.
But theres also an amazing kind of scavenger-hunt game that kept ours busy.

Photo: Courtesy of Montage Palmetto Bluff
Who, truly, should be knighted, or given a kind of American-style Legion dhonneur, or something.
But we werent being housed elsewhere on the island.
Unsuprisingly, everybody slept very well that night.

Photo: Courtesy of Montage Palmetto Bluff
Smith, en route to winning Wimbledon in 1972.
Ill spare you a retelling of what happened out on the court with Smith.
I mean, suremy kids still think of him now as the shoe guy.

Smith, en route to winning Wimbledon in 1972.
But one day theyll understand?