Welcome to the Weekly Update.

From 1999 through 2013, we published weekly reports of our frequent travels, kite news, festival reports, and flying advice. When we first began, the word “blog” had not yet come into common usage. By the time we stopped, the Weekly Update was a global must-read in the kite world.

By 2014, life – and the internet - had changed. New responsibilities meant we were not traveling as much. And resources like FaceBook made it easier for other fliers to publish news and photos before I could even get back to the hotel to compose a report. Blips and tweets may not have had the depth, but they did have the gist. Why wait for a blog?

There are days I miss composing my Weekly Update. And faithful readers surely miss the weekly featured sale that accompanied each one. But for your reading pleasure, we’ve left the achieve online. Here you can read about the inaugural launch of the Mega Flag, climb the Great Wall, or peruse toilets from around the world. Chck April, 2009 for a ten-year review.

If any of these images grab your attention, you'll have to go track the story down in one of our Updates. There are nearly 700 of them!

Like I often say, life is all about the stories. And I'm fortunate to never have to make one up.