Category Archives: 2007

Issue 55: Westport Windriders Festival

At times, it seems like I’m about “Festival-ed Out” with all of these fests and [...]

Issue 55: Ocean Shores Intl Kite Challenge

Well, we’re on the road again – this time we’re headed north about 180 miles [...]

Issue 54: From the Editor

Howdy folks, thanks for coming back to browse our 54th issue of Kitelife! We got [...]

Issue 54: AKA Corner

Do you know a great location for a kite festival and can’t figure out why [...]

Issue 54: Dave’s World: Berck

The sun beamed out of a beautiful blue sky Saturday morning, and as the wind [...]

Issue 54: Drachen Archives: Marconi-Crippen

It’s easy to be enthused about a new Erik Larson book; the stories he weaves [...]

Issue 54: Featured Store: Goodwinds Kites

Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive [...]

Issue 54: REVisions: Team for Anyone

I’m currently sitting in New York state, trying to decide what to write about while [...]

Issue 54: Lincoln City Indoor

It’s February already? WOW, where has time flown? Maybe time to think about our old [...]

Issue 54: Tricks Party South

New competitors and seasoned flyers alike traveled to Huntsville in March to compete in a [...]

Issue 54: Northwest SKC

What? WHAT? An AKA/NWSKL sanctioned Kite Competition – right in my own back yard? Gosh, [...]

Issue 54: Weifang Kite Festival

On the 19th to 23 April 2007, the Weifang International Kite Festival and 3rd World [...]

Issue 54: Festival Layang-Layang

This trip to Malaysia’s premiere International kite festival was my fourth year in a row, [...]

Issue 54: Bend Kite Festival

How wonderfully unusual! I mean… First off, I’m going to a Kite Festival in Bend, [...]

Issue 54: Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

Northwest Washington’s Skagit Valley comes alive with brilliant color each spring. During the month of [...]

Issue 54: Cloudbuster Festival

The Second Annual Cloud Buster Kite Festival held in Perrin, Texas was preceded by a [...]

Issue 54: Musashi Kite Club Festival

“Rain with possible snow” was the forecast Saturday night, the day before the 18th Kite [...]

Issue 53: From the Editor

Welcome to yet another issue of Kitelife, published just as we’re getting into the full [...]

Issue 53: AKA Corner

Greetings to all in kite land from here in Minnesota where the lakes are still [...]

Issue 53: Dave’s World

Saturday afternoon, a frigid wind was blowing across the ice in Clear Lake Iowa. Kiters [...]

Issue 53: Drachen Archives: Au fil des Vents

The Drachen Foundation recently placed a database of its library archive online for the public [...]