Flugtag in Austin

[geshaw30]

As Tone mentioned in the "Upcoming Events" we will be heading up to Austin on 8/24 and 8/25 to cheer my eldest son and his Flugtag team:

The Chupacabra Iditarod Sled Team
www.redbullflugtagusa.com/Texas2007/teams.aspx (and click the name link)
as they launch into the murky bat guano waters that make up Town Lake. For those of you who aren't well versed in exactly what Red Bull's national sponsored tourney is here is another link to brighten your day a little bit:
www.io.com/house/flugtag4.html
He and his team of idiots were lucky enough to be offered an entry into the event as hundreds of other "I wanna crash into the lake" entries were turned away. A film crew has already been down here to document the building effort as Jeremiah puts together his flying PVC pipe sled.

We will be leaving here around noon on Friday for the trek northwest. As a matter of record Cary & I will be headquartered out at the Hyatt on Town Lake both days. Give Tone a hollar, follow our pilgrimage up there, or leave message for me at the hotel if you have a desire to attend. Dinner on Friday or lunch on Saturday with a group of folks would be great. I think the wife would like to take the "bat boat" float on Friday night (nightly event in Austin of watching 1.5 million bats fly out from under the bridge....wear a hat) as she missed it the last time I went to visit. That boat ride alone is worth the trip as it is an amazing spectacle .

I have put in an appeal to the team to strap a Hot Wheels VX to the sled's front as matter of national record, video posterity, and mostly as a cheezy hood ornament. Not sure I'm gonna be granted that request though as he mentioned something about "disruption of aerodynamic flow".

I've been to the Flugtag in Miami a few years back. It's a hoot