[aeneas1]

brandt floated the same thing about cousins a couple of months ago in a podcast, suggesting that the skins didn't want him, so there must be something wrong with him, and that there wasn't going to be nearly as much interest or money thrown at him as folks think, that teams that needed qbs would fill the need through the draft.

[Hacksaw]

Watch out. Hot take coming in.

Capt Obvious chiming in?

I mean, what a surprise. I sure hope the Rams knew of these players character issues before signing these 4 incredible athletes...

[TomSlick]

I am more of a fan of the north shore kauai than Poipu. Probably going to get married there next June. I will have to try the ATV's as you suggest. I did do a ATV excursion on Oahu on the North Shore, it was a blast.

LOL on CAL/STANFORD.... she went to Arizona back in the day lol

Happy for you, Jack. You won't be disappointed with the ATV tour. At one point we were surrounded by a herd of steer. With all the way mooing, we felt like we were in an old western. Some big beef. The ranch is private and massive.

Arizona...cool, you stuck with the Pac-12.

Just checked out the Kipu Ranch (Kiputours.com) and they have different options and newer ATVs. When the time comes to make your reservations, inquire which tour is the most challenging, as that will be the most fun.

We did an ATV on the Big Island last year, it was good, but not as challenging or scenic as Kipu.

[TomSlick]

I’m a big Maui fan. If you haven’t visited highly recommend. There’s a great guide book named Maui Reveled which takes you to several less traveled gems of Maui.

If I remember correctly they have a Kauai Reveled also.

The lovely Mrs. Tom Slick purchased all 4 Revealed books...Big Island, Maui, Kauai, Oahu. Yeah, those books are great for information and great spots to visit and do.

[TomSlick]

the westin kauai was something else when i was there, before iniki leveled it in the early 90s, miles of man-made lagoons dotted with small islands, which were populated with exotic animals (flamingo island, monkey island, aussie island, etc.), an unbelievable stables/carriage operation (we had more draft horses than anheuser busch), a couple of dozen imported venetian mahogany launches to take guests through the lagoons, to fine dining or one of the championship golf courses... i lived in koloa, on the water, single, mid twenties, i had fun, ha ha.

That's good stuff, A1.

Iniki hit at the time they were filming the first Jurassic Park movie. Very fortuitous since the production company had lots of heavy equipment...bulldozers and other earth moving equipment...and they helped the locals get the island moving again.

[TomSlick]

Watch out. Hot take coming in.

As the GEICO caveman use to say on TV, "Next time do a little research."

Brandt doesn't have a clue as to the leadership of McVay and Wade. McVay is not some mook who shoots from the hip. He has a plan and knows how to execute it. Ditto for Wade.

[RamsFanSince82]

[aeneas1]

That's good stuff, A1.

Iniki hit at the time they were filming the first Jurassic Park movie. Very fortuitous since the production company had lots of heavy equipment...bulldozers and other earth moving equipment...and they helped the locals get the island moving again.

westin offered to relocate all of the westin kuai staff, the large majority being locals, to san francisco, seattle, l.a., etc. after iniki so they wouldn't be hurt financially in terms of income, none took westin up on it, all wanted to stay to help rebuild...

re the north side of kauai actionjack mentioned, absolutely beautiful to be sure, but a heck of a risk to plan something in the future there imo, they get so much friggin' rain... speaking of kauai rain, when i first arrived, when i landed at lihue airport, it was absolutely pouring rain, it was impressive as hell, even more impressive was that it didn't let for two weeks straight, night and day, a torrential downpour, i thought was the end of the world, the resort's massive circular swimming was almost blood red from the clay rolling down from the hills, as was the bay, the resort's palatial lobby was packed by the third or fourth day as guests desperately tried to check out, in effort to salvage some of their vacation time on nearby islands, ha ha...

[Hacksaw]

Just had the same experience when we landed in Lihue. V-8 colored water everywhere. Apparently it had been raining for 2 weeks just before we got out there. A few hours afterward, the sky opened up and the sun started shining. We of course took full credit and the locals could only say Mahalo.
The ATV run was a muddy event to say the least. (Suh)

So all you Hawai'i lovers know why the soil is red right?
Here's a hint.

[CanuckRightWinger]

I have been to Maui and Oahu, but unfortunately never to Kauai....
but that does not stop me from sharing a story about Kauai with you lot!

Back in the Spring of 2013, I took a big customer down to our annual company shindig at the Long Beach Toyota Gran Prix....great racing, wonderful weather, breath-taking "scenery" ...and the Long Beach Harbour/Queen Mary landscape was nice too!!
Anyhoo, leaving that great weekend outa LAX, we try to get a pre-flight bit of food. The best bang-fer-the-buck eatery is a Deli, but it's 110% full....The Wolfgang Puck place across the way has open seats, but they want like 40 US Dollars for a friggin' hamburger!!

So I go back to the reasonbly-priced deli-place and see a guy eating by himself at a table for 4....baby-boomer like me....so I politely approach (hey, Canadians are polite. eh!) him and ask if he would mind if we joined him. "No problem!" he says, so we join him and order some nice deli fare and start conversing with this good guy. Wow....what a ride!

The fellow we were sitting with was Tom Hamilton of Kauai and he reported that he had just come from various trauma & rehabilitation centers in Boston.....where his daughter Bethany, an amputee, was counselling amputee victims of the recent Boston Marathon bombing. I asked if maybe his daughter had served in Iraq or Afghanistan and sustained her injury there. That was not the case.....his daughter Bethany was an accomplished teenaged surfer in Kauai when, while surfing with friends in 2003, a shark suddenly (and completely) removed Bethany's left arm just below the shoulder. Tom got choked up a bit as he described how Bethany had lost so much blood before she got to an operating room, that doctors said that it was miraculous that she survived.

Bethany Hamilton still surfs competitively and Tom reported that Hollywood made a movie of Bethany's whole ordeal. The movie was called SOUL SURFER and Tom made us promise to make sure we saw it with our families. I fulfilled that promise a few weeks later and Swiss Family Canuck saw Tom portrayed by Dennis Quaid, and his wife Cheri was played by Helen Hunt. It's a wonderful family movie full of love, faith and inspiration. My daughters still talk about it sometimes. I highly (and earnestly) recommend this heart-warming movie to all my RFU brothers!

The movie was shot in 2010 in beautiful "Hawaii and some later scenes were shot in Tahiti" per wikipedia, and I was pleased to see that the movie, with a budget of $18 million, made money (per wikipedia $47 million gross).

CRW