Pickleball in the Sun Featured in the New York Times
How to Make Fast Friends While Traveling? Try Playing Pickleball.
One of the newest sports crazes is not only portable, but an opportunity to meet fellow travelers who can’t get enough of this addictive game.
Recently on a Royal Caribbean cruise through the Bahamas, Laura Gainor (founder of Pickleball in the Sun) had the opportunity to be interviewed by the New York Times for their latest article, How to Make Fast Friends While Traveling? Try Playing Pickleball.
The article touches on pickleball as an amenity in many communities, a good reason to take a much-needed road trip, and an opportunity to discuss just how affordable the sport truly is.
“It’s more accessible than other sports,” said Laura Gainor, 40, a marketing consultant in Ponte Vedra, Fla., who discovered the sport three years ago and founded Pickleball in the Sun, a travel and leisure brand that profiles pickleball resorts and sells apparel. “You’re not paying to practice like golf.”
The article also notes the many opportunities for travel that are associated with the sport of pickleball.
Photo: Bruce Yeung Photography
Big Dill Pickleball Co. are the go-to paddles for alleviating travel boredom
“Katy Luxem of Sandy, Utah, 37, who owns the pickleball gear company Big Dill Pickleball Co., took her paddles on a family trip to Paris and volleyed in front of the Eiffel Tower.”
According to the article,
“For all the opportunities to travel to plush resorts and faraway places to play, pickleball remains accessible on free public courts across the country, which are destinations for many paddle-porting road-trippers.”
