From: daveb@pogo.wv.tek.com (Dave Butler)
Newsgroups: rec.kites
Subject: Re: Longbeach Kite Fest
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:28:54 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.

Dave Serisky asks about the kite fest at Longbeach, Wa:

> Do you know when next year's festival will take place?  My understanding
> is that you need to make reservations early (it may already be too
> late).  I was planning to go, but had family visiting and didn't make
> it.

My understanding is that it is always the 3rd week in August.  And yes
reservations are difficult but possible to get.  When we tried to make 
reservations on the day after the kite fest, we got put on a waiting list for 
the Nendels Motel.  The waiting list must have been short though, because 
today we were got confirmation for the kite fest.  (Nendels' number is 
206-642-2311).  There is also a Big Eight Motel very close to the site, which 
is also putting names on a waiting list.  For more complete information call 
the LongBeach chamber of Commerce.  There are also many beautiful Bed and 
Breakfasts in the area.  This year we stayed at Gumm's Bed and breakfast which 
is about 5 or 6 miles from the site (some people stay over 40 miles away in 
Seaside, Or).  I would highly recommend Gumm's as a place to stay.  The rooms 
are very attractive, the hot tub is private (great after a long day on the 
beach), and the breakfasts are killer (its a fantastic 3 or 4 course breakfast, 
and we found that there was so much food we didn't need lunch at all).  We will 
be going back to Gumm's at other times of the year, but my wife wanted a 
guaranteed parking place closer to the site for the kite fest.  Last time, 
when she dropped me off and ran an errand, she ended up having to park about 
3 miles from the festival, in a sand dune parking lot (luckily we have 4 wheel 
drive).  If we hadn't gotten a room at Nendels this soon though (which is 
literally at one end of the Long Beach boardwalk and thus at one end of the 
fest) or at the Big Eight Motel, we would have made reservations at Gumm's by 
mid September (assuming she had any rooms left). By the way, bed and 
breakfasts tend to be no more expensive than the nice motels (ie: $65 to $75 
per night). 

				Later,

				Dave Butler

    Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: What more could you ask of life? 
    Aviation combined all the elements I loved...  I began to feel that I 
    lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was 
    richer because of its very association with the elements of danger they 
    dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound.  In 
    flying I tasted the wine of the gods of which they could know nothing... 
				Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.


    PS. The big AKA kite festival which is in Lubock (Sp?), Texas this year is
    going to be held in Seaside, Oregon, in 1993 (first or second week in 
    October).  There are still rooms available in the Shilo Inn which overlooks 
    the main field, and Shilo is giving a discount to flyers.

    P.P.S.  Is anybody going to be at the North Coast Challenge in Seaside, 
    Oregon?  Its going to be the 3rd weekend in September 92'. 
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