Saturday marks the second anniversary of Ups & Downs.

I posted my first entry, Half Moon Bay, Dec. 20, 2006.

It wasn’t very promising: six colorless paragraphs written diary-style.

Back then, I thought maybe the blog would consist of a series of weather reports and police-blotter-style notes about my frequent plane crashes and rare successes. (“Cloudy. Lost orientation & flew into a eucalyptus,” “Cold. Lost orientation & crashed into a hill,” “Breezy. Stayed aloft for two minutes!” etc.)

Nine days later I began to find my form with an entry introducing Crazy Ted, recounting my first trip to Baylands and my encounter with Ted Cooper, who helped me get my Slow Stick in the air for the very first time.

This is the 127^th blog entry. Once I got going, I decided that I wanted to update the blog at least once a week.

I didn’t quite make the weekly goal in 2006 and 2007, but this year I accelerated to 75 entries (this is the 75^th).

Along the way, I’ve published more than 2,000 photos, a Faces gallery of nearly 350 local flyer portraits and eight movies.

Here are some of my favorite blog entries, so far:

• How to Build a Wild Wing
• BBOB 2008: Slow Sticks in the Sky
• How to Build a Combat Wing
• Gary’s Hammer Symposium
• Thwack! The Blue Heron Hunts
• Return of Pickleweed Red
• One Dozen Ideas for a Better Transmitter
• Killer Yuke: A Halloween Story
• Fetchomatic 3000
• The Giant Tree Rescue
• Pickleweed Place Perspective
• The Baylands Battle Bash
• The Life Aquatic
• Men With Hats

Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by, and especially those who’ve been kind enough to leave a comment.

Tags: Baylands, Flying, People.

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