[TomSlick]

Just got home from Makena on Sunday. Proposed to my fiancee' on Maluaka Beach (Prince Beach). Im down for Hawaii!! I love Hanalei. Mahalo

Congrats, Jack. (I assume she said "yes"). That's really great of her to look past your brain-damaged Cal years.

I bet she's a Stanford gal!

[TomSlick]

5-0,, I'll see if I can "Book 'em Dano".

As a mod I was using the RFU credit card. Bummer no one accepted it.

As far as the destinations for our members, I was looking at sites on Kauai in either the Hanalei or Poi'pu / Koloa regions. Really a beautiful place. Out there you can get away from it all..

Then on Oah'u, I found a possible retreat in Mokuleia / Waialua on the north shore. Way off the beaten path but close to epic waves.

On Maui, I found Hana especially remote. A good place for some of our more nefarious posters to hide out. Plenty of land near Paia, Haiku though and much easier to access than that "road".
Either that or Makena. I did put in an offer for an oceanfront condo on Napili Bay though.
I'll keep you posted.

A hui hou...

Kauai is our favorite, though the Big Island is a close second. What a great island to explore. Poi'pu area is nice and sunny. Highly recommend the ATV tour at Kipu Ranch. They let you air it out on the flats and some real nice technical trails in the hills as you explore incredible scenery. Those ATVs sound great when you floor it.

Maui, road to Hana...yeah, that is away from it all. Heck of a drive around the island. Paia, did you give Mama's Fish House a go? Food is amazing.

Food is awesome anywhere you go on the islands.

[TomSlick]

I often toyed with a idea of buying a one-man outrigger canoe. They are very cool, especially, the ones made from their cherished Koa. Kinda heavy, fiberglass is lighter, but, damn, no Hawaiian "historicialness" with fiberglass.

[actionjack]

Kauai is our favorite, though the Big Island is a close second. What a great island to explore. Poi'pu area is nice and sunny. Highly recommend the ATV tour at Kipu Ranch. They let you air it out on the flats and some real nice technical trails in the hills as you explore incredible scenery. Those ATVs sound great when you floor it.

Maui, road to Hana...yeah, that is away from it all. Heck of a drive around the island. Paia, did you give Mama's Fish House a go? Food is amazing.

Food is awesome anywhere you go on the islands.

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

[Flash]

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.

[aeneas1]

wow, all of this hawaii talk, bringing back a flood of memories....

in my past life i worked for resorts, 15+ years, was part of the opening team for the westin kauai (now the kauai marriott) and the four seasons maui, so many memories, so many great stories.

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.

after three years i took a job offer from the four seasons maui (wailea), i was one of about 30 opening team members tasked with setting up hotel policies and procedures (in my case accounting) and mass hiring prior to opening, the japanese company that built the four seasons also built the grand champion condos across the street, where we were housed throughout our stay on the island, it was hysterical, completely furnished/stocked, dishes, linens, everything brand spankin' new, top of the line, huge lanais with views of molkini, lanai, etc, my shower was about 10' x 10' with 2 shower heads per wall (3 walls) complete with koa benches, ha ha, i was livin' large.

anyway, met my beautiful wife in hawaii, maui, her family is right out of michener's "hawaii", sailed around the horn, generations of punahou, her parents were on oahau when pearl harbor was bombed.

funny, when i was transferred to hawaii from the san francisco bay area i had absolutely zero interest in going, had never been before, but it struck me that it would no doubt be a canned don ho luau hokey experience, was i ever wrong, loved it from the start, all five years i was there.

[Hacksaw]

wow, all of this hawaii talk, bringing back a flood of memories....

in my past life i worked for resorts, 15+ years, was part of the opening team for the westin kauai (now the kauai marriott) and the four seasons maui, so many memories, so many great stories.

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.

after three years i took a job offer from the four seasons maui (wailea), i was one of about 30 opening team members tasked with setting up hotel policies and procedures (in my case accounting) and mass hiring prior to opening, the japanese company that built the four seasons also built the grand champion condos across the street, where we were housed throughout our stay on the island, it was hysterical, completely furnished/stocked, dishes, linens, everything brand spankin' new, top of the line, huge lanais with views of molkini, lanai, etc, my shower was about 10' x 10' with 2 shower heads per wall (3 walls) complete with koa benches, ha ha, i was livin' large.

anyway, met my beautiful wife in hawaii, maui, her family is right out of michener's "hawaii", sailed around the horn, generations of punahou, her parents were on oahau when pearl harbor was bombed.

funny, when i was transferred to hawaii from the san francisco bay area i had absolutely zero interest in going, had never been before, but it struck me that it would no doubt be a canned don ho luau hokey experience, was i ever wrong, loved it from the start, all five years i was there.

Just like Oly,,, 'it's the water, , , and a lot more'..

[St. Loser Fan]

Watch out. Hot take coming in.

[PARAM]

Wish the Rams well, but there was a reason teams wanted to rid themselves of Suh, Peters, Talib, etc. "They'll be fine once they come here" is not a plan.

I would submit, there were reasons and they weren't the same for all of them. Peters is potentially the most volitile of the three and that was the reason the Chiefs made the deal. Talib was turning 33. And Suh's contract wasn't team friendly.

But is the "plan", "they'll be fine once they come here" or "they'll be fine once they're playing on a winner"? It is and it isn't really one in the same.

[dieterbrock]

I would submit, there were reasons and they weren't the same for all of them. Peters is potentially the most volitile of the three and that was the reason the Chiefs made the deal. Talib was turning 33. And Suh's contract wasn't team friendly.

But is the "plan", "they'll be fine once they come here" or "they'll be fine once they're playing on a winner"? It is and it isn't really one in the same.

You are so right. There's nothing to the "somebody wanted rid of them". If that's the case, Warner, Faulk, Aeneas Williams etc wouldn't have been Rams, and look at the SB champs. Where would they have been if teams "didn't want" Nick Foles, Alshon Jeffrey, Zach Ertz, Jay Ajai etc....
Look at the league, Patriots are the anomaly, everyone else builds up and takes shots, then they have to reload. Rams are finally in that mix