Quote from: mac900 on September 27, 2010, 07:30:21 AM
It will be interesting to see how, or if, the group dynamics will change now that our "captain" is gone and will only show up for a visit once in a while.

Even though I'm just a "semi" regular, I was thinking the same thing....

Quote from: mac900 on September 20, 2010, 06:58:19 PM

You darn right!  It was flippin' gorgeous today. What I would call a textbook Hawaii Visitor Bureau day. If I had gear down here I'd back the 1100S out of the customer waiting room and spin it over Tantalus!

Sounds like just another reason to have two sets of gear to me.....

Quote from: Gene V on September 27, 2010, 08:43:49 AM
Even though I'm just a "semi" regular, I was thinking the same thing....

Coming Sunday will be the true test... who's in?

So Emile's move happened then?

Quote from: DRKWNG on September 27, 2010, 12:09:53 PM
So Emile's move happened then?

He's been selected to open a company office in Guam...I believe he'll be back and forth for a few months, then posted there permanently...

I knew the details of it, but it was more like he volunteered for it and then thought better of his decision later on, when they said "it's a go".  Sucks though, as I don't think I'd want to live there...

Quote from: DRKWNG on September 27, 2010, 01:04:30 PM
I knew the details of it, but it was more like he volunteered for it and then thought better of his decision later on, when they said "it's a go".  Sucks though, as I don't think I'd want to live there...

im from there and i dont want to live there... maybe when im 90 and cant ride a woman let alone a ducti i might consider going there to die. but thats a really BIG "might". scuba diving, eating, and drinking, pretty good. riding a motorcycle for more then 20 minutes, really really bad. i feel sorry for the guy already. 

the move has to do w/ his upward movement in the company, best move for his career. they're banking on getting dod contracts for housing, because the move of milz from japan to guam. he mentioned about the roads, like the material that the old roads are made of actually holds in water and grows moss. gave it something like the black ice effect. i told him he need to take up scuba diving!

but someone also told me that if we got stationed there, it'd probably be a good opportunity. the growth being planned there will definitely change the island.

Quote from: sta on September 27, 2010, 09:17:11 AM
Coming Sunday will be the true test... who's in?

I'll most likely be there but somehow I have to find time to get back on the pedal bikes. I should schedule that for Saturday but then this coming Sat I'm also supposed to fix Wally's 900 Monster shifting (again).

Quote from: whackie on September 27, 2010, 04:59:32 PM
the move has to do w/ his upward movement in the company, best move for his career. they're banking on getting dod contracts for housing, because the move of milz from japan to guam.

someone also told me that if we got stationed there, it'd probably be a good opportunity. the growth being planned there will definitely change the island.

There was that but there was also a lateral move to get himself out from under some people at work here and it was an opportunity that opened. I don't think he has any plans to stay there permanently.

There's lots of opportunity in the Navy. The only good thing about Guam is that you will rotate out of there. I'd take any place on the east coast over that place.

Quote from: mac900 on September 27, 2010, 08:25:00 PM
The only good thing about Guam is that you will rotate out of there. I'd take any place on the east coast over that place.

Not to knock anyone's home, but Guam is not going to be a fun place to be after the Navy moves 8600 marines and their 9000 dependants there...of course that's going to take awhile, so maybe Emile will be outta there by then...

Quote from: mac900 on September 27, 2010, 08:25:00 PMThere's lots of opportunity in the Navy. The only good thing about Guam is that you will rotate out of there. I'd take any place on the east coast over that place.

definitely agree on that one. also my understanding is that they are more likely to send someone from SD to guam, than someone from here. it has to do w/ the logistics of getting household goods from A to B. something like they actually have to ship from hawaii to CA, then to guam. but i'm sure that all depends on availability and stuff.

right now they've set him up for a bunch of schooling, to get ready to go back to a boat. doing all his quals stuff again, so he's going to have to be on the watch floor for a while.

Quote from: Gene V on September 27, 2010, 08:53:10 PM
Not to knock anyone's home, but Guam is not going to be a fun place to be after the Navy moves 8600 marines and their 9000 dependants there...of course that's going to take awhile, so maybe Emile will be outta there by then...

it's going be like hawaii, but WAY worse. the milz to civi ratio will be interesting. also i can see a lot of guys being geo bachelors as well.

Quote from: whackie on September 27, 2010, 10:56:28 PM
definitely agree on that one. also my understanding is that they are more likely to send someone from SD to guam, than someone from here. it has to do w/ the logistics of getting household goods from A to B. something like they actually have to ship from hawaii to CA, then to guam. but i'm sure that all depends on availability and stuff.



it's going be like hawaii, but WAY worse. the milz to civi ratio will be interesting. also i can see a lot of guys being geo bachelors as well.

Ranilo has explained that before in that it's actually cheaper to send stuff from Guam to here rather than the other way around. The boat moves in a circle that travels from Guam to here and then to the west coast before turning back to Guam. There is no direct ship from here to Guam other than by air.


Geo bachelors? ?     I used to have friend that would say that he was separated from his wife. She was in Maui and he was here, therefore they were "separated."

Quote from: mac900 on September 28, 2010, 05:41:51 AM
Ranilo has explained that before in that it's actually cheaper to send stuff from Guam to here rather than the other way around. The boat moves in a circle that travels from Guam to here and then to the west coast before turning back to Guam. There is no direct ship from here to Guam other than by air.


when i moved here from guam 2 1/2 yers ago, i was looking at shipping my R1 over and it would have cost me almost $1900 bucks. i was told that the ship does go in one big circle. cali to hI to guam to japan back to cali and that i was going to have to pay for that big cirlce.  so i said "make the beast with two backs it" besides it would have been unwise to pay 2 grand to ship a bike only worth 3. and if i did then i wouldnt have my 848 now or met all of you wonderful people 8-)

Quote from: Gene V on September 27, 2010, 08:53:10 PM
Not to knock anyone's home, but Guam is not going to be a fun place to be after the Navy moves 8600 marines and their 9000 dependants there...of course that's going to take awhile, so maybe Emile will be outta there by then...

I sure hope they plan that out well and spread everyone around.  Otherwise, the island is likely to capsize and sink.