From:	griebeno@athena.mit.edu (Kai Griebenow)
Subject: Kite Flying in San Diego
Date:	Tue, 9 Apr 1996 06:46:49 -1000
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <4ke49p$hfu@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>



Hi,

I just came back from San Diego where I was able to spend the weekend. Now
I have red eyes (took the redeye from LA), I am tired but feel ok. 

On Saturday I was able to fly kites with about 15 members of the San Diego 
Kite Club - great people! Steve Bateman organized this flight. The whole thing
was initiated over the r.k newsgroup - virtual kites sometimes later fly
in real winds ;-).

It was very nice to see Paul and Dorine Imbach again after meeting them in
Junction 1993 for the first time. They were flying the beautiful Tut-Ench
Amun Kite - what a marvelous piece of work. Also the peacock delta was up.
Paul had a nice new parafoil with a neet light effect.

I was also very happy that Gail and Ed Lindsy were able to make the flight.
They had all kind of food and drinks prepared and I had not to starve :-).
Gail flew her beautiful cloud woman. Ed flew a couple of kites and later
also a wonderful quadline bird kite. 

Later Jose Sainz joined in and also had a couple of new kites up in the air
that I never saw before. He is working on new venting systems and the graphics
of his kites are anyway out of the world. His son was with him (I think about 5
or 6 years old). He was flying a little Rokkaku quite perfectly. There is 
some optimism allowed here that the tradition will be continued :-).

I flew my Danger of the Sun II Rokkaku, my patchwork sodes and some other kites.
At one time we had about 15 single line kites up there - it looked like
a real kite festival :-). Just beautifull.

By the way, I liked San Diego and especially the climate (snow in Boston....)
very much. I also love the Spanish architecture.  

I would really like to thank the San Diego Kite Club very much for their very
friendly and kind reaction on my question on r.k. Isn't the internet great
sometimes ;-). 

Happy Kiting

Kai


 



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