Kite Flying

My friend Sara is a rocket scientist studying the aerodynamics of kite wings for her thesis. Naturally she needs to fly kites for research. So with several days of good wind this week, she invited me to help out with some research.


Pink Duct tape makes it fly better.


This little guy was pesky.


Warming up in a patch of sun and the wind shadow of our "research facility".


This kite liked to go round and round in circles.

Random Quote

Found in the directions for assembling a kite:

The LEADING edge is the FRONT edge. The TRAILING edge is the BACK edge.

Cruising The Coast Highway

My cousin Danielle was in town for the weekend. She was originally going to run the Big Sur Marathon but a ham string injury and good sense kept her from it. But that didn't stop her from having fun. Jefferson, she and I headed to Monterey to pick up her race packet and score some free shwag at the race expo.


We drove down Highway 1 to check out the course she would have run.


I figured since we were already mostly there we should check out McWay Falls too.


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photo credit: Danielle


Jefferson had eaten about 10 or so free energy bars from the expo and was feeling a little loaded down after maxing out his calorie intake for the day.


We tried some running photos at Bixby Bridge but the sand dunes north of Monterey turned out better, even if the sun didn't peak through.

Sea Otter Classic

Rich and I headed down to Laguna Seca for our now annual Sea Otter Classic photo safari.

Foothills Park

A little jumpin around after family breakfast at Foothills Park

Andy, Joanna and Tauna


Andy


Steve


me

...and a little peek behind the scenes: