DBBB NEWS and Updates

DBBB Pre-event: Time to Buggy
With nearly six dozen riders and guests signed up for DDDB, this year looks to be one of the largest turn outs on record. Riders from as far away as New York, Virginia, Washington State, and Nevada will participate. This pre-event weekend a vanguard of wind junkies will return to the vast beaches of San Luis Pass (SLP) on the west end of Galveston Island to start the festivities and get their fix. The weather forcast looks good! If you can't make it out this time, please join us for Thanksgiving weekend. Ride safe!
Chris

Buggymylitis
'Action Jackson' rides the rails at the 2007 Niagara International Kite Festival last month. See this and other amazing animal tricks out at this years Dead Bird Buggy Bash!







Chris

Welcome to DBBB 07
It's that time again to come on down and buggy in Galveston on what we think is the best beach in Texas. The beach is in great shape and by Novermber it will be cooler. Everyone is welcome no matter your skill level. There is plenty of room for all. So come and join us for Thanksgiving on the beach.

Susan

Cinco De Mayo
Join us on the beaches of SLP (San Luis Pass) May 5 & 6th as we help celebrate Mexican Independence Day with kites, food and fun. Come as you are and bring some food or snacks to share.







Chris

Dead Bird 2006 Review
For those who did not attend you missed a great event. The weather was great the whole week and we had wind every day. There were plenty of familiar faces and some new ones too. We had everything from kite buggys, kite atb boarders, kite surfers, single line kites, dual line kites and blokarts so all in all a very diverse crowd. The food was the best part on Thanksgiving. There is something about frying up turkey and ham on the beach to make you hungry.

I would like to send out a very special thank you to all the sponsors for their donations and also everyone else that helped out in any way to make this event happen. Mark you calendar for next year and see you on the beach.

Susan

Fantastic weather brings big fun
Imagine daytime highs in the mid 70s and night time lows in 60s. And somebody remembered to put coins in the wind machine. Dead Bird Buggy Bash 2006 was blessed with perfect wind and weather. Onshore breezes keep East Beach swinging with buggies, land boards, kite surfing, land sailing in Blowcarts and all sorts of sport kites and single line displays. Friday was picture perfect - SSE winds 10-15 allowing runs up and down the beach with ease. Saturday's winds were a little more SE and prevented those long runs. But as the winds crept up to a steady 15 mph in the afternoon, a long line of buggies and Blowcarts cruised the flats. Circuit runs made for fast paced excitement. A huge turn out with lots of spectators enjoying the show.
Chris

Pre-Event Weekend
The fun has begun! Dozens of wind junkies arrived on Galveston island this weekend. Most played at SLP on Saturday. The wind shifted out of the North, so camp was moved to East Beach on Sunday. This is where the kites can be found throughout the rest of the week. Thanks to Terry and Linda for all the GREAT bbq they prepared. Come join us!






Chris

Factory reps from New Tech & HQ Kites
Be on the look out for Chris Shultz and the gang from New Tech Kites along with Tim Baxmeyer from HQ Kites providing lessons and giving you a chance to test their latest products. Look for their feather banners out on East Beach.




Chris

The Blokarts are coming
Hello all. I just wanted to let yall know that Blowkart Texas will have extra blowkarts for rent this year. So if you are intrested see Terry Crumpler.

There is still time to register so please do and come on down to the beach.

Susan

Dead Bird 2006
Welcome to dead bird 2006. It looks to be another great event. If you plan on attending please register. It does not cost anything and by doing so we can get an accurate count so we know how much food to prepare.

We still have some merchandise from last year so check out the store and see what's there. Also in the store you can sponsor a turkey. This is a great way for you to contribute to the event if you are coming from out of town.

This years menu for turkey day will be the traditional feast on the beach. There is no better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than with your buggy family on the beach. Please bring a covered dish, dessert and or vegetable platter to add to the feast.

Keep checking the web site for updates and see you on the beach.

Pre-event Happenings
The annual DBBB Pre-event happened this past weekend. Many folks had already started arriving on Galveston island the week before in anticipation of the DBBB and the SLPBR group wanted to get together the weekend before to firm up plans and do a little socializing before the masses hit East Beach.

Attendees for the pre-event included Neil Brady and family, Pat & Tracy Burke, Terry & Linda Crumpler, Dave Dickerson, the John Boyz from Oklahoma, AJ, Rick & Sarah McGaffey, McDuffy & Jan O’Bannon, Susan Orgeron & Brad Rex from Louisianna, Glenn Pedro & Jason Robbins from New Jersey and Philadelphia, Kathy Nixon, Walt Mitchell & family from Lubbuck, Chris & Katy Shultz from Austin, TX, Sparky, Mark & Steve from Houston, Janice, Charles and Alexandra Huckabee and Claxton Thompson from Florida. And last, but not least our very own “late arrival man” Joe Irby.

The weekend started out with the usual “Irby’s not here yet” pool. Everyone is invited to pick a time Joe might arrive and place a bet of $1 or more. This years pool was won by Chris and Katy Shultz with the winning time of 3:00PM. Joe surprised everyone arriving by 4PM on Saturday afternoon. He arrived just in time for dinner!

Some special arrivals were Jason and Glenn from the northeast part of the world. Two fun guys no matter where they turn up! A very special return this year is Mark, Steve and Winnie! Mark’s back on the beach with us after 2 years in Iraq! Our camp dawgs, Caddo, Winnie, Lilly and Shelby were out and about sniffing for food and smiling for back rubs! Claxton made the most fashionable arrival showing up in a suit and tie, but quickly changed and threw his kite up into the wind.

Camping was in force Saturday morning as campers pulled up and anchored into the sand and tents popped up here and there. Dave always sets up a welcoming common area complete with tables, chairs and a fire pit. Janice diligently kept the home fires burning the whole weekend with wood supplied by Rick and Sarah. Nobody cooks wood like Janice! There were Frisbees floating, shells collected, Texas Tech stomping OU, banners posted and single line kites flying and a whole lot of laughter and great conversation!

Everyone was treated to a scrumptious barbeque Saturday that slow cooked all day on Dave’s trusty grill. The menu included Texas barbequed ribs and brisket, potato salad, beans and jalapeno cornbread. After dinner everyone gathered around the fire to watch a glorious Texas sunset.

It poured buckets of rain on our party late Saturday night and the hotel contingent arrived to hard packed sand and a migas breakfast prepared by the Huckabees Sunday morning. As the gang dried out by the fire the wind picked up foils and sails popped up over the horizon flying up and down the strand.

In between buggying and sailing Joe prepared his famous Dutch oven cobbler and Dave heated up leftovers for a late lunch. You will never go hungry with this crowd. They feed you extra especially well at every event!

The day ended with huge gusts of wind and as we drove off into another beautiful sunset leaving behind our good friends on the beach we knew when we returned Wednesday night for the DBBB that there would be more of the same good times to come.

See all of you Wednesday!!!

Katy Shultz

Great dbbb Raffle
What? Raffle to help retire Mike Dooley's legal bills.

Prizes?
Quad lines and Handles from Ozone Windzup
New 4.5m Little Devil from Blokart Texas
Like new 4m JOJO RM from Glenn Pedro

How much? $5 a ticket. Only 200 tickets will be sold.

Where and when? The drawing will be held at the dbbb event in Galveston sometime during the last weekend, probably Saturday afternoon. There will be tickets drawn for each of the 5 items offered.

Who? Claxton will be selling the tickets at the event until he has to go visit his Mom. Susan will be selling them after that.

For those not attending there is still time to send a check to Claxton in a self addressed stamped envelope to:

MDLDF
Care of: Claxton Thompson
1916 Castle Bay Ct.
Oldsmar, FL 34677

You can also make a Paypal payment directly to the NABX registration fund at: registration@nabx.net . Make sure to mark the payment with "MDLDF".

Email claxton@nabx.net if you need more info.

Why? Because we love Mikey. He did a great thing by sticking up for our right to buggy the beaches. The least we can do is help take the sting out of paying his legal bills.

Thanks, and see you on the beach!

dbbb is a GO!
Action Jackson under authority of Homeland Security drove the Galveston beaches at a high rate of speed today to ensure they met the strict guidelines set out by the DBBB Safety Committee. He's pleased to report he was able to traverse virtually all beaches without spilling his Red Bull Energy Drink. "Smooth, Wide, and Hardpacked" AJ reported. Two thumbs up!

See ya'll on the beach soon!
Dave

This site is an oxymoron!
Not to be confused with aoxomoxoa, though hopefully it has some of that too.

When Dick Bell saw the potential of buggying in Galveston eleven years ago there were a whopping nine buggiers in Texas and Oklahoma. From that initial informal gathering Thanksgiving '94 sprang an event that has attracted as many as 120 fellow buggiers worldwide to the annual event. Dick and friends had such a great time they "made a pact that it would remain un-organized, we remind each other from time to time, when it gets just a little too organized."

Well here we are in '05. The event remains strong thanks to all the folks that also see in Galveston/DBBB what Dick saw back in '94, who volunteer their time to insure it continues on. One thing that has changed since the early days is how people communicate. Today most have computers where we can send email, instant messages, and build websites paying hommage to our favorite activities. Through this new style of communication the word gets out worldwide and our little circle of friends suddenly becomes part of the whole world wide web!

Now the very existence of this website that enables us to stay in touch, reach out, and convert new friends to buggying, also nudges us more towards the "organized". In fact, this new website is the result of several "organizing" type people. Thus the Oxymoron. We have strived hard throughout this website building experience to capture and remain true to the original vision to keep this a laid back, un-organized, free, non-profit, non-event.

Hopefully you all will agree we didn't go too far.

Good winds!
Dave

PS Thanks Bob. You Rock!

Welcome to the new DBBB website
A great event deserves it own site and domain! We are pleased to give the Dead Bird Buggy Bash a permanent presence on the world wide web. A BIG thank you to Bob Childs at Mad Moose Studio. Without his help, it is unlikely you would be reading this right now. Dave Dickerson has been instrumental in making this a reality. Our goal is to make information about traction kiting in and around the Galveston coast readily available so all may enjoy it. A special thanks to Troy Gunn for providing this service in the past. Buggy on!
Chris Shultz