Saturday, I did something I've never got to try before and had a blast. I agreed to help Ed, our ODR manager, with a trip landsailing. We drove out to El Mirage, a dry lakebed, and prepped the landsailers, Blokarts, for a group of teen kids that were to show up around 1030 or so. We got out there pretty quickly and the wind was blowing nicely. One of the carts had gotten away due to the brakes not being tuned tight enough. I went to grab it, climbed in and got it going and I was off. It is exactly like sailing or windsurfing. The sails in fact are windsurfer sails without a boom. The kids didn't show up until noon, so we had about 3 hours of fun playing in the blokarts.
The truck and trailer loaded with half a dozen karts.
The karts are little more than a lawn chairs with gocart wheels.
The road out of Irwin. straight for 20 miles through desert towards some low mountains.
El Mirage is a dry lakebed, probably 10 miles long and a mile wide. Anyone want to drag race?!
There was a UAV clocking us.
He kept doing flying passes. They are onto our plan to smuggle drugs in blokarts up from mexico through the desert :)
Here are the karts as we set them up.
Most other karts work by steering with your feet, airplane style, these have steering wheels.
Here the kids are getting ready for their turn.
El Mirage is full of Joshua Trees, in fact you can adopt one if you like. I might sponsor one next time I go over there. For just $1 a day, you can feed a healthy Joshua Tree, named Josh.
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