Wes - let me know if you will be doing the Southern States and i will be there to meet up and support ya.
I do nto compete but did years ago. Now, i just try to stay up with my young kids and stay in shape. Actually do more running and cardio and less strength stuff these days due to shoulder pain.
Keith (onlyme) sorry to say - your hot spots have fizzeled and have been renamed or made into other real estate. The Bahia Mar area is fun, I love Ft Lauderdale and actually disliked living on South Beach (too much trash and street drugs) for the year or so we lived there).
I remember being in Scottsdale for work, an associate and i went to the pool to relax after the day's business and met a nice girl from West Virginia. We all moved over to the hot tub after a bit of talking and starting rapping. She was in town for some hotel course and we were in for consulting work (medical research). She asks what we did (so i told my friend to play along) - i told her we were in the hotel and restuarant business and ran a new restuarant in a NYC hotel (I just finished reading a story on the hotel and restuarant, so i had details that were unbelievable) - I had her wrapped, it was fun. So i leave to g get ready for the business dinner we had planned and my associate starts hitting on the sweetie, he later joins me as we head to dinner and was all happy...We are at dinner and after a few rounds end up going to one of the college bars with the owners of the company we were consulting for - somehow I end up giving the owners sister a back massage, my buddy tells Karen that she is now officially mine and within minutes she will be puddy in my hands...let me just say she was a knockout. After 10 or so drinks, somehow her and I end up back at her private estate and are having some fun, but I decide since I have a 7am meeting with her brothers, should high tail it out of there...i do and I remember what room the hot tub chick said she was in, so abotu 3;30 or so i knock on her door...thing is, she was awake and dressed in a sweet teddie - answers the door and says, I knew you would come...your buddy tried to get with me, but I sent him on his way (i smiled) - well, let's just say that them there West Virginia girls have fun in them and i never made it to sleep that night.
Thankfully, ephedra and an espressor got me through my meeting and we signed the contract (I guess my motor mouth and the doctor I was with were convinving enough) and whatever happened with the owners sister - she never told, but smiled the whole meeting.
So, keith - if you ever make it to this side of the country let me know - dinner is on me!