Slovenia

Allison has departed for NYC, and my heart is sad. Just in time to cheer things up, Melanie arrived from SLC and we began our travels by fixing our oil leak with a €10 part so that we don't need to spend €30 on another liter of oil. That's about a 10x price difference between Europe and USA for a quart/liter of oil.


We arrived late Wed. to Železniki, Slovenia for the Ratitovec Open. This comp has some serious prize money, with €500, €400, €300 going to the top 3 places. This is my first time to Slovenia besides quickly passing through this tiny country on the train in previous trips en-route to Eastern-Europe. I am so stoked to be here, as the place is amazingly beautiful, the flying is awesome, and the people super friendly.




Melanie, feeling left out of some of Allison, Jens', and my earlier cow adventures had to befriend a cow herself. Ski lifts climbed to the peaks above launch, and we got to explore a bit before today's 57km task. Yesterday we had a 72km task. I came in below the final turnpoint, and with no lift in the valley I had to glide into goal a little sad for not completing the task but stoked to have had such a fun and amazing first flight in Slovenia. Today both Melanie and I made goal!!!