Getting to Wildwood wasn’t easy. For a 7 a.m, flight out of Portland, we have [...]
Mike Agner, Jim Martin, and Al Sparling were waiting for me at Narita Airport when [...]
Shi means “four” in Japanese. And tomodachi are “friends”. After a week sleeping on futons [...]
Wah-shoi! Wah-shoi! — the chanting is everywhere!! You hear it on the festival field, in [...]
Thirty years ago, I stumbled across a small kite festival at the D River Wayside [...]
Looking out at photos of the field, there is one thing you notice and one [...]
Some days it is just too windy. Some days the field is too crowded. And [...]
A perfect flying day for me means not having to worry about someone getting hurt. [...]
I have to admit it. Writing up the AKA Convention is always hard for me. [...]
September 1, 2009 We often get questions about the Pilot Parafoil. Why don’t they fly [...]
I’ve been wanting to come to Columbia for years. The events here are organized by [...]
After flying all night to New York, my first thought as I got off the [...]
Susie doesn’t come to Wildwood anymore. She is a veteran of the old days with [...]
We’re back in Saskatchewan and Swift Current for the Windscape Kite Festival. Wheat fields stretch [...]
I was a bit startled when Nathan Sendan called. He wanted an Octopus. A really [...]
Invitations to “The Dance of the East Sea” came in late-February. This was the first [...]
My first morning in France, I went down to breakfast and asked for an omelet. [...]
Getting to Malaysia isn’t hard. It just takes time. In my own case, I flew [...]
The Tire Technique… A few years back, I was flying at a festival in New [...]
I recently received a letter from Robert Van Weers in New Zealand which he asked [...]
Peace Park in the Khayelitsha Township is a dusty, windblown patch of ground in a [...]