Howdy, So...I hear the thermals in Calif are like unto the bosoms of aspiring actresses--bountiful, booming but however completely naturally generated. I hear the pilots are like unto producers crusing a party early saturday night, harvesting the bountiful, booming thermals with the terrifying grace of a shark...stopping this analogy before I go too far... The point: I am one of these east coast (M)HLG flyers who flies mostly alone out of a scrubby little field in eastern NJ that I have come to love like familly. I find myself headed to Los Angeles the week + weekends of March 20 and would like to hook up with some good HLG flyers to show me the ropes. I will have a rental car--San Fransisco is not out of the question. I will show up in LA with my Spectre, Red Herring and maybe Nymph plus Zagi-400 for some quality time in the good stuff. Looking for contests, clinics, hangouts, kind hearted souls, hourly lessons for bucks or whatever so that I can come back to the scrubby little field in New Jersey with a gleam in my eye and say "Ma, I have seen the Emerald City". Any info appreciated. breck PS Even though this is NOT a personal ad you can check out my overall approach to the sport by looking at: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~breck/breckKwing.jpg RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]