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Pickleball Tournament Tips from Coffeys2Go Bonnie & Ky Coffey. Golden Ticket Winners at the Tournament of Champions in Brigham City, UT.

We were out walking Basie, our current most favorite dog that we were pet sitting, on a lovely shaded trail in Park City, Utah. I was thinking about my pets growing up. My father grew up in the middle-of-nowhere east Texas on land that has been in our family since my great-great grandfather homesteaded Spanish land grant land. He was a hunter and fisherman as the generations before him had been, not for recreation, but out of necessity. Grandaddy and Grandma on the family far

Pickleball Lesson with Pro Suzee Anderson in Orem, Utah

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.

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

My second pickleball lesson with Helle Sparre provided great directions for improvement.

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

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!

Medellin Colombia has taught Coffeys2Go many great lessons. For those of you looking for travel and pickleball, you can now find it here!

Our travels through the southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and Mardi Gras in New Orleans made for a memorable trip.

An impromptu trip to San Carlos Mexico by the Coffeys2Go resulted in meeting the pickleball pro, Scott Moore and pickleball gold!

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

Happy New Year! Can you see clearly what 2020 will bring? Here we are already firmly over our New Year's Resolutions, and on with our lives. It has been a really long time since I blogged. I've been a tad bit busy, my bandwidth for writing, in large part, taken up by working on writing a book. More on that in a future post. We are back in our home in Ahwatukee. So Very Strange! We haven't lived in this house for two years, really 4 1/2 years if you go back to when we first b

What do you get when 2,333 pickleball players congregate for nine days in one place to vie for bragging rights, medals, and for the top players in the world, some bucks. You get that old time thrill of victory and the agony of defeat on a grand scale. In Indian Wells Tennis Garden, the same courts that are used each year to host the famous tennis tournament, the BNP Paribas Open, are repainted to host the Margaritaville USA Pickleball National Championship. The enormous compl

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

From Lisbon, Portugal to Madrid, Spain, it would have been faster to drive. The distance is only 388 miles (625 km). At warp speed, no time at all, but given current scientific constraints, about 6 hours. However, there’s a pesky little problem with the border between Portugal and Spain. Despite the fact that the European Union has officially made borders between member countries a thing of the past, the car rental companies have not completely followed suit. They don’t rea

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

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

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

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