Bonnie Coffey
The Golden Ticket of Pickleball and Tournament Tips
Pickleball Tournament Tips from Coffeys2Go Bonnie & Ky Coffey. Golden Ticket Winners at the Tournament of Champions in Brigham City, UT.
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Pet Sitting, Drone Piloting, Pickleball Playing Nomads
Bonnie Coffey
- Jul 17, 2021
- 5 min
A Pickleball Lesson With a Pro - 6th in a Series of 12 - Suzee Anderson!
Pickleball Lesson with Pro Suzee Anderson in Orem, Utah
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Bonnie Coffey
- May 31, 2021
- 5 min
Tardy to Class - 22 Courts in 2 Months
The Coffeys2Go are back on the road and it has been a busy two months of pet sitting and pickleball mixed in with other adentures.
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Bonnie Coffey
- Mar 22, 2021
- 5 min
Lessons with Pros - Put to the Test
Do pickleball lessons with pros make a difference? We put our last five month's worth of lessons to the test to find out. Over almost four years of playing, a quick and dirty, very conservative estimate of the numbers of different people we have played with would be well over 3,000. Rather than becoming bored by it and going on to another sport, the game just keeps getting more interesting to both of us. There is still so much to learn, and even more fun and laughter to be ha
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Bonnie Coffey
- Feb 20, 2021
- 4 min
A Pickleball Lesson With a Pro - 5th in a Series of 12 Helle Sparre AGAIN!
My second pickleball lesson with Helle Sparre provided great directions for improvement.
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Bonnie Coffey
- Jan 23, 2021
- 7 min
A Pickleball Lesson With a Pro - 4th in a Series of 12 Helle Sparre
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. It was our honor and pleasure to take a pickleball lesson with Helle Sparre. A grand dame is defined as a woman who is socially prominent, respected, and experienced, who is accomplished, influential, and a senior figure in a particular field. That is a perfect moniker for Helle; grand dame of pickleball. Helle was born in Denmark, and she has a incredibly impressive resume in tennis. By the age of 19, she was the #1 ranked player in her country. She competed a
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Bonnie Coffey
- Oct 16, 2020
- 5 min
Crazy Times in California
California during a heat wave, massive fires & resulting smoke on top of the coronavirus made for an unusual couple of pet sits.
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Bonnie Coffey
- Sep 9, 2020
- 6 min
Scratching Itches
Being nomads in the time of Covid-19 has slowed us down, but we have adapted and continued to travel, pet sit and play pickleball. Read how!
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Bonnie Coffey
- May 28, 2020
- 6 min
Clipped Wings
The Coffeys2Go had to make quick decisions in Columbia, South America on where to go as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Bonnie Coffey
- Mar 5, 2020
- 4 min
Mardi Gras & Gulf Coast Pickleball
Our travels through the southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and Mardi Gras in New Orleans made for a memorable trip.
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Bonnie Coffey
- Feb 2, 2020
- 3 min
How Do Nomads Take A Vacation?
Have you ever been away from your home for quite a while, and during that time you stayed extremely busy with social and physical activities? You might have come home exhausted, needing sleep and needing to go back to more sane eating, exercise and spending habits. You weren't really ready to go back to work or your routines, so you might have said or thought,"I need a vacation from my vacation" As full time nomads, homeless by choice travelers, we have asked ourselves, how d
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Bonnie Coffey
- Oct 21, 2019
- 3 min
Boundless Options - 21 Courts in 40 Days!
From 1965 to 2020, options for places to play pickleball have exploded. See 40 days of our journey and the 21 courts we found along the way
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Bonnie Coffey
- Sep 9, 2019
- 4 min
Castle Canines in Nottingham, England
A pet sit in Nottingham, England for two dogs named Izzy and Jessie turned out to be in a most interesting location near a former gate house
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Bonnie Coffey
- Aug 29, 2019
- 4 min
Out of Order in Nottingham, UK
Don't worry, everything is working fine. It's not that kind of "out of order". This blog title refers to the fact that I've had to skip a couple of blog posts (which I hope to go back and fill in - sorry Wales) to catch up to near current day. Ky and I were thrilled to learn that there would be an inaugural English Open Pickleball tournament around the time that we had been invited to come pet sit for Zoe in Teddington, England. We planned our entire trip around this event. T
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Bonnie Coffey
- Aug 25, 2019
- 4 min
Dinking in Devon, UK
For the sake of completeness of a record of places to play pickleball in Southwest England, this post will be brief but hopeful. In Devon and Cornwall there is currently a woeful lack of pickleball players. But what the area lacks in pickleball, it makes up for in sheer beauty and history. We were so fortunate to return to Teddington, England and pet sit for people who offered us time at their beautiful vacation home in Devon. When people asked where we were headed next on o
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Bonnie Coffey
- Aug 15, 2019
- 6 min
Zoe, SLAP and WASSPS in England!
Zoe was happy to see us, and we were very happy to see her too. For a bit more than a fortnight (two weeks), we petted, snuggled and cared for this sweet 14 year old kitty for the second time in less than a year in the lovely town of Teddington, just west of London, England. In case you don't already know, we pet sit for people around the world. It's one of the ways that we have been able to afford living a full time nomadic lifestyle for over four years. We sit for well beha
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Bonnie Coffey
- Aug 5, 2019
- 3 min
Bouncing Back to Britain
We returned to England for pet sitting and pickleball. The Southern Coast and friends made for a great start to our European adventure.
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Bonnie Coffey
- Jul 28, 2019
- 5 min
NVZ in North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Vancouver BC is the terminus of our Mexico to Canada Epic Pickleball Road Trip. More to come in Europe though.
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Bonnie Coffey
- Jul 20, 2019
- 2 min
Ending in Edmonds, WA
Who doesn't know about Seattle? Even those reading that live in foreign countries likely know about it, and many have even already visited. Our Pickleball Road Trip took us to the Emerald City, and just north of it are the small towns of Shoreline and Edmonds. We have long-standing ties to the Pacific NW. We lived east of Seattle, in Bellevue and Issaquah, from 1988 - 2002, and both of our children were born in Bellevue. We actually had our own pickleball court at a home we o
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Bonnie Coffey
- Jul 16, 2019
- 3 min
Speedy Shots in Sequim
The history of pickleball on a badminton court to a modern day private court. Coffeys2Go enjoyed a day getting to know a Pickleball family.
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