Ecuador

I wish I was using my computer so I could put up a good post with pictures.

How cool is it to be flying in Ecuador as winter draws near in North America! I can´t get over my GPS coordinates every time I turn the thing on. Not only does it read out ¨South¨ rather then ¨north¨but the numbers are so low! We are at one degree south here. Erie.

The trip down was an adventure in itself. Dustin´s glider was shipped to Miami, then accidentally shipped to >Texas then back to miami. It showed up an hour before we did at the freight fowarder to claim it. Miami was a mess. The storm jacked that place up.

We had to short pack dustins glider in the airport instead of loading it in its shipping container and that meant we were short a travel bag. My glider didn´t survive the trip unscathed. A nice fat dent in the inboard leading edge to keep my flying mellow.

R aul has hooked us up with killer accomodations here in his hometown. Yesterday the sun broke through the clouds about midday and we all soared for a few hours. Today we wanted to fly a task but the clouds never broke for our downwind task. If we had been smart we would have set an alternate task up and down the ridge because the soaring there was consistant despite the strongly crossed sea breeze and total overcast skies. Dustin and I were partying our butts off with vulteres all afternoon long.

We are going to hang out in the city a few more days then head to the beach for the comp. Before that I t hink we are also heading up to a 4,000m launch in the andes. Depending on conditions I think we could fly to the ocean from there. Don´t worry, the camera batteries are all charged up and ready to rock!

Kev