ATV Outfitters Press Coverage
Boston Globe
December 8, 2002
'Hawaii Unspoiled: Sweet and sleepy Kohala is filled with nature's gifts”
'…Bill Wong, 42, a fourth-generation Kohala resident whose great-great grandfather immigrated from China to help build the railroad, recalls, 'I was 11 at the time but remember my father getting his pink slip. When my father said, the plantation was closing, I asked for how long. He said ‘forever.' No one could believe it.”
North Kohala was so isolated that the idea of working elsewhere was inconceivable. Over ensuing decades, the population plummeted from 15,000 to 3,000.
Wong is tall and strapping, describing himself as 'a Chinaman trapped in the body of a Hawaiian.”
A competitive paniolo (Hawaiian cowboy), he founded ATV Outfitters five years ago. It was one of the first local companies to traverse former plantation land and to tell its story.”
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Travel Weekly
July, 2003
'ATV Outfitters: ‘thrilling' drives…”
'…Along the Historical Ocean Cliff Trail, Wong intertwines Hawaiian history with boyhood memories of growing up in this area…”
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Blue Ribbon Magazine
November, 2003
'ATV Adventure: Hawaii Style”
'…The scenic vistas and the historical information that our guides covered made this adventure one of the highlights of my trip to the Hawaiian Islands.”
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Quad Off-Road Magazine
December, 2005
'Tropical Adventure: Escape to Hawaii's ATV Paradise”
“…We looked for dolphins in the ocean and watched for cows on the trail. We rode the coastline on the Big Island, and then ventured inland to a hidden waterfall…While standing on the edge of that cliff, listening to the legend of Kamehameha, looking at the pristine coastline, we felt almost as if we were hundreds of miles and hundreds of years away from everything.”
