Elliott: “There is some good wind today, let’s go fly some kites.” Brian, “I don’t really know what that means, but I am down.” That is pretty much the text conversation that occurred on Monday afternoon. We road bikes to the North Avenue beach on Lake Michigan. It is a little embarrassing at first because there are about 200 people on the beach playing volleyball and staring at you, wondering why you are about to fly a kite. And then, when the kite doesn’t take off, you can see the disappointment in their eyes and hear the comment, “lame,” in their heads.
This being the first time that I have flown a kite in a long time and the first time that I have flown powerkites (the kites that they use for Kite-Boarding), I was pretty pumped. After a few crashes into the sand and water (one, nearly took out a small family of Mexicans), I figured it out. This is a video of me pushing a kite around on Lake Michigan. The volleyballers soon figured out what we were doing.
BG Powerkiting On North Ave Beach Chicago