Point of the mountain

6/14/11
I have now paid dues to the local club good for a whole year. I flew the north side of point of the mountain and boy was it crowded. The launch is only about 300 feet high and the idea is to bench up to the upper ridge for easier flying. I could not do it. There was just too much traffic on the ridge. This may have been a great site once upon a time but in my opinion there are too many pilots now for this to be a great site. I had a good landing at the bottom after about 20 minutes on the ridge. If I fly again tomorrow then it will hopefully be when fewer people are flying. They said to be there at 6:30 in the morning.

Utah Lake State Park

Well, we have finally made it to Utah! we are staying at the Utah Lake State Park and there are very few camp sites taken. I haven't seen any other children here and the playground is really pitiful.

 It got really windy while we were setting up the tent and I thought that the storm might ruin our tent. It is not staked down very well because it is set up on a concrete pad and there is nothing to stake it directly to. thankfully the wind stopped and now we can cook supper in peace.

While Loretta was cooking supper, Rebecca and I went around the camping loop several times so that she could "burn off some energy". Rebecca is really acting hyper today. The very last time we went around the loop, she was almost attacked by a dog that was chained to a fence post and we did not see until it was too late. Luckily Rebecca veered away just in the nick of time and the chain was too short to reach the other side of the road. I had a talk with the dog owner later about controlling his animal and he took it rather well. I am thankful that Rebecca did not overreact to the near miss.

There is a very nice jogging trail just on the other side of the campground. It is paved and very scenic. I hope to take Rebecca on a bike ride there in the morning to burn off a little more energy.

Happy Birthday

130 MB Quicktime video file!
Rebecca is one year old and gets a chocolate mess all over her face. She is beautiful!

Busch Gardens

Busch Gardens in Williamsburg Virginia. We should have gotten seven day passes to this place!

Bristol Virginia

Our stop before the final leg to Williamsburg Va. Rebecca and Loretta swim in the motel pool in Bristol.

Rebecca Video

This is my latest attempt to have a blog with videos. I will see if the iTunes link works on this file. It is 35.4 MB and pretty boring unless you are my mother so don't bother downloading it if you have a choice.

Photo Of David

I just got my Hangglider harness in today and don't have a photo to post on the web. Well, I decided to post a photo of my son, David at a Region Jazz contest in the fall of 2005 (November 12). Soon I will have a photo of him wearing our beautiful orange harness!

I am just jabbering

Hello.
that is the normal way to begin a conversation, right? Well, anyway I am still trying to figgure out this blogging thing. I have four blogs going and originally I wanted them all to be audio blogs. I even had RSS feeds set up for them. Unfortunately, the feeds do not seem to work properly. My iTunes doesn't seem to know that they exist! I suppose that the best thing for me to do right now is to forget that the RSS feeds even exist and just start writing. Writing is an age tested method of communicating with other people. It may be a good way to prevent my mind from going stale also.

I am enjoying reading about people's adventures down in Florida for the Flytec meet. This is a hanggliding event where people get to have long xc flights almost every day. Some years the flying is good every day. This year they had to miss one day due to bad weather. It was too windy. Mark Stump was in the news today because he was the only one not to make goal! hopefully, I won't read about him in this light again.

Well, that is all for now. It has stopped raining and is a good time to go for a walk on Mt. Nebo.