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OT: For Those Feeling Withdrawal From the Season

I think we're just all still wondering what went on in Zion, Rocky.
 
I suspect like horse, which is a big fav of some. Still, it is probably all in the marinade and the chef. Now the condiments are important too. ;) I wouldn't add sauerkraut to my giraffe dog. This lean meat may benefit from a bacon wrap treatment. let you know when I return from out safari later this year, you rascal.
 
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RockyMTblue2 said:
I suspect like horse, which is a big fav of some. Still, it is probably all in the marinade and the chef. Now the condiments are important too. ;) I wouldn't add sauerkraut to my giraffe dog. This lean meat may benefit from a bacon wrap treatment. let you know when I return from out safari later this year, you rascal.
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I guess horse taste kinda like zebras..... not that Im curious about grilling or baking either. My parents went to Africa a few years back.... and they were treated to a wild game dinner. I cant remember what wild game was on the menu...... I suspect nothing like lion or hippos..... or giraffes..... I'll have to ask them. Back when I had cable.... I used to enjoy watching the hunting shows..... especially when they went after big game.

Dunno why anyone would put sauerkraut on anything..... Head bang That cabbage would be better served in a slaw.
 
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triaddukefan said:
Here is a earth cam of Miami and its surrounding areas

EarthCam - Miami and the Beaches Cam





I guess horse taste kinda like zebras..... not that Im curious about grilling or baking either. My parents went to Africa a few years back.... and they were treated to a wild game dinner. I cant remember what wild game was on the menu. I suspect nothing like lion or hippos..... or giraffes..... I'll have to ask them. Back when I had cable.... I used to enjoy watching the hunting shows..... especially when they went after big game.

Dunno why anyone would put sauerkraut on anything..... Head bang That cabbage would be better served in a slaw.
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I love Ocean Drive and "The Clock"
 
triaddukefan said:
Here is a earth cam of Miami and its surrounding areas

EarthCam - Miami and the Beaches Cam
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Cool. Just checked out the Fontainebleau Hotel on the North end of south Beach. Found the pool where Auric Goldfinger (finally) lost at gin while James Bond was having Jill Masterson tell him the wrong cards while she was spying on his opponent from an upper room in the curved section. Love that place. It's been remodeled a couple times since Goldfinger. Have stayed there 3 times - twice since the most recent remodel. Ahhhh....
 
j66kicker said:
Cool. Just checked out the Fontainebleau Hotel on the North end of south Beach. Found the pool where Auric Goldfinger (finally) lost at gin while James Bond was having Jill Masterson tell him the wrong cards while she was spying on his opponent from an upper room in the curved section. Love that place. It's been remodeled a couple times since Goldfinger. Have stayed there 3 times - twice since the most recent remodel. Ahhhh....
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Long time ago, flew in late and checked in and had Oysters Rockefeller en suite. 2nd best to the L'Enfant Plaza in Washington. 'Course, it's best known for a certain petty burglary. ;)
 
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RockyMTblue2 said:
Long time ago, flew in late and checked in and had Oysters Rockefeller en suite. 2nd best to the L'Enfant Plaza in Washington. 'Course, it's best known for a certain petty burglary. ;)
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My all-time fav is the Island Shangri-la in HK, but the Fontainebleau comes pretty close
 
RockyMTblue2 said:
Never got to HK. So far.
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Great place to clean up coming out of China. The 'old' China (and much of the current China) left one in desperate need of clean water, air conditioning, beer that doesn't taste like chloroform, etc, etc. Stopping over in HK for a day or 2 on the way out ("to see our attorney", or for whatever excuse we could make up) was like going to heaven.
 
j66kicker said:
Great place to clean up coming out of China. The 'old' China (and much of the current China) left one in desperate need of clean water, air conditioning, beer that doesn't taste like chloroform, etc, etc. Stopping over in HK for a day or 2 on the way out ("to see our attorney", or for whatever excuse we could make up) was like going to heaven.
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I learned a few years ago that IBM had a physician team to deal with IBM employees returning from China/Far East for all sorts of reasons. Yeah, don't drink the water, or the beer, or breath the air or ....
 
j66kicker said:
Cool. Just checked out the Fontainebleau Hotel on the North end of south Beach. Found the pool where Auric Goldfinger (finally) lost at gin while James Bond was having Jill Masterson tell him the wrong cards while she was spying on his opponent from an upper room in the curved section. Love that place. It's been remodeled a couple times since Goldfinger. Have stayed there 3 times - twice since the most recent remodel. Ahhhh....
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Staying there is on my bucket list...
 
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j66kicker said:
Just do it
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I would've if I had known last May when I stayed on South Beach... I was around the corner at Cadillac Marriott, bumped into it on one of my morning strolls to see the yachts across the street from FontaineBleau
 
DaddyChoc said:
I would've if I had known last May when I stayed on South Beach... I was around the corner at Cadillac Marriott, bumped into it on one of my morning strolls to see the yachts across the street from FontaineBleau
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Sounds like you didn't do too badly :cool:
 
j66kicker said:
Sounds like you didn't do too badly :cool:
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I didnt tell my father I was going til I got back... his 1st words when I told him was "where did you stay, Foutainebleau?"

then for the next hour he told me about his stay there back in the 70's or 80's
 
We went to Miami for our honeymoon in the late 50's, stayed t another hotel. Other newly married couples staying at the same hotel decided to go to the Fountainbleau for dinner and drinks. When our drinks arrived my husband took a sip of his and told everyone not to drink and called our waiter over. It was moonshine, the waiter apologized, telling us he was instructed to serve moonshine to diners not staying at the hotel. Brought us new drinks.

My husbands grandfather was a booze runner along with "Legs Diamond"and was involved in slot machines. It was very easy to time payoffs on the old mechanical slots.
 
DaddyChoc said:
just did the math, 5 night would cost me 3000.00... and that's cheap and no breakfast SMH
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I just stayed 2 nights each time. First time on business - 3 of us attended a conference at he hotel in the late 90's or early 2000's - it was the Hilton Fontainebleau at that time. We stayed in an older tower - a little "tired" - and the cost was lower than what you looked up. But you can spend a lot more than that too. Some rooms now are equipped with their own Mac computer, B&O speakers, multiple balconies, etc. Drinks are ~$15 at the lobby bar. It's wild - some of the people you see buzzing around the hotel - you can tell it's all just chump change for them.
 
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maybe I do 3 nights at Marriott Cadillac and the last 2 at Fountaine (Sunday and Monday)... the cheaper prices
 
bags27 said:
I think we're just all still wondering what went on in Zion, Rocky.
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Well, I just saw this from you bags. It was an extraordinary 5 days, some of which I shared in my heads up about the race organizers. The "resort" in which we rented an owner's sleeps 8 cabin was a nightmare - the race's local sponsor. The west is still the wild west when it comes to RE development and this hideous place is a prime example. The lodging was fine-ish, but the infrastructure of the resort was not. The roads were at best what we out here call "pioneered", a euphemism for a wagon trail. Every journey in and out was a 2-3 mph 4 wheel journey with a lump in everyone's throat.

Had a wonderful talk with a rock shop owner about the myriad fossils that litter the Zion area rock formations. The ranch development in which we live is also a fossil rich landscape. The head of Montana State's geology department came out here a few years ago and gave us a walking tour lecture, explaining that what makes this place so unique is that it is the equivalent of the Grand Canyon lying on it's side as you move south to north on the ranch, the oldest rock of geological times being in the south and the youngest formations being in the north. 900 feet of elevation change ... hence the Canyon lying on its side analogy. The Geology dept. use to have permission to bring classes up here, but the students ruined that with their wild and landscape destructive shenanigans.

A long digression there. I and a daughter were picking his brain about the formations to look for, etc. and he was very knowledgeable and willing to share. He also had a beautiful "dirty" jade necklace reasonably priced which solved my annual wife's birthday present dilemna just in the nick of time.
 
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