slideshow of the 2008 season at Quest Air

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Dinner at Otto's

A favorite tradition at Quest Air: Dinner at Otto's, our eccentric Thai host

Just over a couple of weeks in the U.S and seems like time is running of my hands like water!
Is so good to see everyone at Quest and enjoy beautiful spring time in Florida.

Flying is been great and there are a lot of people at Quest even without the Flytec meet this year. There is a nice feeling in the air. Good friends hanging out and flying together, nice little parties at The Clubhouse and the amazing aroma of orange blossoms making everything even better!

Future papa Bo and Jo with he's new "johawk"

the marvelous new Quest host and office head chief, Nicole

Back in the U.S.

Beutifull Historic Charleston

Here I am, back in the U.S. again, this time just for a couple of months. I arrived in one degree Celsius in Washington, so we decided to head south immediately. Ten more hours in the car and I arrived at Drew and Michelle´s nest in the lovely city of Charleston, SC.



For the last couple of days I´ve been resting and enjoying the charming restaurants and bistros in town and today we all (Drew, Michelle, Joe and Myself) start our journey back to Quest Air, in Florida. The place where we all met, where everything started...

Living the Dream

Back to work in Ceara...

view from the hotel in Cumbuco

We are now doing the harder part of our work: exploring 360km of coastline, full of deserted beaches, turquoise ocean and lagoons, perfect to kitesurf. Check it out some of the places we've been traveling to...

our stop for lunch... Someone have to do this job: check in out the best seafood around

gorgeous lagoons and dunes (Mundau)

kitesurf, off course!

A Coconut farm, a common scene viewed by the roads

"Jangada" the most popular fishing boat in Ceara.

Rio "Wonder City"

Heading back south for Christmas....

my take off in Pedra Bonita, Rio de Janeiro

I couldn't help a little stop in Rio to fly. The day was just gorgeous!
and Rio is really one amazing place in this planet!

long time no see

Is been a looong time since I last wrote something here. Yeah, is a trip after trip... A no ending adventure...

the Rally Bus

After my travels and flying in Bahia, it was time for the S.O.S Sertao Race and Rally Series (www.sossertao.com.br). I hooked up with the Rally Bus and left to Recife where the event would start. It was a week of flying, each day in a different place, crossing six states of Northeast Brazil.

take off in Aliaca, state of Pernambuco, the first leg of the Rally

More than the flying itself, the whole experience of traveling in such remote and isolated areas was priceless. The people, the food, the environment, the culture and music and even the different accents, made me feel like I wasn't in my own country. I discovered an entirely different face of Brazil.

a very common site in my travels around "sertao"

Beside the flying, the S.O.S Sertao aimed to bring aid to these very poor communities trough the distribution of basic food supplies and educational programs with doctors, nurses, teachers and entertainers. They administered talks in methods of contraception, in how to avoid some common diseases, nutrition, hygiene and etc. The organizers also put together a little mobile “adventure park” with a climbing wall, a trampoline and even a hang glider simulator for the kids at each of the little villages where we passed. Most of the people there had never seen a hang glider before, or even heard of it.

a normal scene in this rally... sometimes was very hard to set up and/or breakdown our gliders

Flying wise was more like an expedition than a race. Amazing and very strong sites, a couple of them where never flown before and in the last leg to Maranhao only two guys faced the challenge of flying with absolutely no landing options. They managed to find something not so bad to land, but most of the other pilots not even started the leg, after climbing up and realizing what we had ahead of us. And I was one of them.

Lencois Maranhenses, the ending point of the rally. Just Amazing!

Quixada, my new favorite place to fly!

But a couple of the sites that we flew where the best I have ever flown. Patu, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte and Quixada, in the state of Ceara. I was so amazed by Quixada that I decided to go back there after the Rally for one more week of flying. And it was intense! Strong winds, strong conditions and the result was my best flights ever! In my last day there I flew 217km, the best mark ever flown by a Brazilian female! Yhaa!

a very happy girl

Lagoinha and my new passion

Well, after all that flying was time to a vacation at the beach to meet up with Joe and Priscila again. I missed them sooo much! And here I am in Lagoinha, I just can't leave this place! A kitesurf paradise and I'm having a blast! I think Priscila found a new home....

Santa Terezinha

The perfect take off, in a cute little village, with a nice road to the ramp.


The view from behind the take off


A 20kts cross wind! No flying for me....

Unfortunately wasn't possible to take off today, but was nice to know this beautiful site.
Today I'm leaving to a nearby city to get a ride with the bus that is taking the gliders to the Rally, in Recife.
Check some more info about the rally here: www.goup.com.br