After Atlantic city we head further North, New York City. In the mean time it is starting to rain. Cool we kind of liked it. I think Clark liked it too, to a certain extent. Anyway it has been raining for a week straight. Finally a nice solid sunny day and a little break from the weather.
I got to see Time square! Where they drop the New years ball and with all the crazy magnetic billboards saying look at me! It was really cool. What was even cooler was New York closed one street in the middle of time square and made it a walking zone. They also placed cheap lawn furniture like the skinny plastic straw material. Funny to see all the heavy butts sink down in them. Yeah you know the chair that stretches when you sit in it!
Thanks to Eddy and Tina for taking us around downtown New York. We got to eat Delicious sushi at a restaurant called ??? with good Okinawan beer called Orion. Yum.
After the funday in New York we went back to the safe confines of Teaneck New Jersey. I wouldn't dare to drive Clark (The R.V.) through down town. It was mad mayhem with taxis, people, semi's, bicyclist, and everything just moshed together. Big props out to Eddy who drove us smoothly through the all the city traffic.
Next, we left for the Cape! Cape Cod. To go visit Eric with FunSeekers and Jonny D with Masskiting.com. We left New York with rain, not to bad at first, but then it started to pour! Had to go instantly and buy new wipers because the sqeecky ones were not going to cut it. Man was it a long drive from New York, the traffic was crazy! With about an 1 to 2 inches of water on the roadway, people were being stupid and driving to fast and then stopping and then going, long stressful drive with poor visibility.
We made it to Cape Cod late in the evening and we were staying with Johnny with
Masskiting.com at his family's Cottage. But the funny thing was we showed up at night to this niehborhood that looked like munchkin land! The whole place is just these little gloryfied sheds that are the cuttiest little things. Decorated in everybodys image of beach style and sassyness. It's wonderful!
Glad we made it. Felt so good to stop and park and fit in with all the huts. Maybe someday Clark can become the Mayor of Munchkin Land!!
The next day we got to go ride in the waves!!!!!!!!! It was sick thanks to Eric from Funseekers. Calling early in the morning and motivating to do a down winder. We got to go ride near Wellfleet, and along Ocean View Drive. The conditions were so good. The wind was side on to side, with rain squalls in between and pretty strong about 15 to 25mph. It didn't look as windy but it worked out.
So it was Eric, Mike and I. We got to ride 4 to 6 foot waves with some really big over head waves. Some of the biggest waves of the whole trip, and some of the biggest waves I have ever turned and faced on a strapless board kiting. Great fun! I definitely got my ass handed to me a couple of times and had to go all the way back in to the beach and retrieve my board. I am getting so close to sending the kite and grabbing the board to do bigger jumps also! Mike, the life guard, is also getting really close to landing his bigger strapless airs. He saw me do a couple and losing the board and having to body drag back to it. I guess that isn't the best idea because he told me that "There are Great White Sharks out there." Of course he tells me after the down winder. I guess if you see lots of seals there is a good chance there is Whitey out there!!
Eric also ripped it up on a 12 light and his strapped surf board. I might have to try it. He was catching all the waves with ease and muscling through the surf. He is a rocking rider and teaches people to rip. I wish I had the ocean in my back yard. But now I got the whole U.S. as my back yard so I can't complain.
After the day of the down winder we went and hung out with Johnny and his family at his Cottage. Wow what a fun family. Thank you once again DeSalvos for all the hospitality and blue berry pancakes. I would come back next year just for that!
We had a great "no-winder" demo on Saturday but still got a pretty big following to hang out on the beach with no wind. What was even cooler is MASSKITING.com and community still came out that evening and partied with us at the Sand Dollar Bar. There were at least 40 people there which was amazing for a no wind day!! Thank you Johnny and Jeremy for creating such a good core group of people that interact with eachother just because of Forum!
After partying until about 3 am we had to leave Sunday Morning and cater to Andrew from Powerline Sports in New Hampshire. It was raining in sheets all day Sunday but it wasn't a bad demo because we had tons of wind and really good surf. Thanks to all the NH peeps who came out in the nasty weather to kite with Ozone.
Man what sucked even more was 6 wet kites in Clark and no way to dry them off. With non stop rain for about 8 days our front window in Clark also started to leak! Sucky!
I am glad that we have Ozone to buy us a Hotel room for the night to dry off a bunch of kites in the hotel room. You would never think that a 14m light looked so big! We had all the kites out, some pumped up and some hanging by the bridles. Good thing was the carpet matched the color of the wet sand. You couldn't even tell that we had such a mess in the room! Lucky I guess, we were joking that the kites are so important that they get there own room. But moldy stinky kites always suck. Finally we are dry in Clark. With a one nice day to make repairs to the 23 year old windows.
All is good now! But back in the rain again, when will it stop. So depressing :( But now we are in the Hampton's in New York. Blog you next time.
Peace
Patrick and Karabeth
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