Hawkeye Safety Jake Gervase Ready to See the World

[RobHowe]

Iowa senior taking advantage of college experience to broaden horizons with trip to Cuba:

LINK

 

[Hawknigh]

I'll bet he got lots of requests to bring back cigars!

 

[RobHowe]

And food. Cuban grub is right on.

 

[Ree4]

Had an uncle that sailed to Cuba last summer, said it was an amazing experience and place to visit. Almost otherworldly - like going back in time to the 50s

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Had an uncle that sailed to Cuba last summer, said it was an amazing experience and place to visit. Almost otherworldly - like going back in time to the 50s

Here he is coming back to America.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

My nephew played football with Jake in HS. Graduated same year.

 

[okeefe4prez]

My nephew played football with Jake in HS. Graduated same year.

Al Bundy once scored 4 TDs in a single game.

 

[Northside Hawk]

Had an uncle that sailed to Cuba last summer, said it was an amazing experience and place to visit. Almost otherworldly - like going back in time to the 50s

Like watching Captain Kirk's offense in other words.

 

[Fryowa]

Al Bundy once scored 4 TDs in a single game.

Are you on the pills again?

Careful, you know how you get.

 

[Fryowa]

Like watching Captain Kirk's offense in other words.

Outstanding.

 

[NEIChawk]

Like watching Captain Kirk's offense in other words.

AND.....they even had the same gum that he chews, back in the 50's......some things never change, eh?

 

[Northside Hawk]

AND.....they even had the same gum that he chews, back in the 50's......some things never change, eh?

The 1950's was when the Castro led regime overthrew Batista.

Some thought it would only be a temporary change.

Oops!

It didn't take long for Fidel to make very nice with Nikita Kruschev and put the world as close to the brink of nuclear war as it has ever been.

Kennedy was on the way to his top secret bunker, probably the basement of a head shop or gentlemen's club in Miami or someplace like that.

 

[Hawk1960]

3rd World Countries are an eye opener for most Americans. I remember the first time I traveled to India and China ... the poverty, especially in the rural areas makes you appreciate everything we have here.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Al Bundy once scored 4 TDs in a single game.

Al Bundy is The BOMB. Ed O'neill actually had some football talent as he ended up at Youngstown St as a D lineman. Had a tryout with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

 

[thetrza]

Al Bundy upgraded his wife in the new tv show.

 

[pythagoras]

The 1950's was when the Castro led regime overthrew Batista.

Some thought it would only be a temporary change.

Oops!

It didn't take long for Fidel to make very nice with Nikita Kruschev and put the world as close to the brink of nuclear war as it has ever been.

Kennedy was on the way to his top secret bunker, probably the basement of a head shop or gentlemen's club in Miami or someplace like that.

13 days of being on the brink. Good movie as well.

 

[Fryowa]

Al Bundy is The BOMB. Ed O'neill actually had some football talent as he ended up at Youngstown St as a D lineman. Had a tryout with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Add Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Gracie to that as well.

 

[Xerxes]

3rd World Countries are an eye opener for most Americans. I remember the first time I traveled to India and China ... the poverty, especially in the rural areas makes you appreciate everything we have here.

Yep. First time I visited a 3rd world country was Haiti. I was speechless for about the first hour. Port au Prince is like one large trash dump. Interesting feeling to realize you're being cased to be robbed by children as you're walking around a market. And as you said, the rural areas was poverty you'd have to see to believe.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Yep. First time I visited a 3rd world country was Haiti. I was speechless for about the first hour. Port au Prince is like one large trash dump. Interesting feeling to realize you're being cased to be robbed by children as you're walking around a market. And as you said, the rural areas was poverty you'd have to see to believe.

Looking back, on occasion, to my journal from a trip to Madagascar, the entry for one town reads thusly: "These kids need a dentist, pronto!"

Basically, the kids, impoverished as expected, spent their days sucking/chewing on sugar cane. The. Whole. Day. I haven't seen teeth like that on three-pack-a-day smokers. Very sad, yet the kids were happy, active and fun as hell to interact with.