Rain patters gently on the roof of the house. It’s a midsummer rainstorm forecasted to last only the next two days, but I’m already concerned our trip might get postponed. I call Rudi — he picks up on the first ring — and excuse myself as it’s quite early. Fresh off the boat from California, I’m not familiar with the local weather patterns yet. The consensus is that the system should pass just in time for us to be good this weekend. It wouldn’t be the first time a foiling trip of mine was delayed by poor weather, but I still cross my fingers as if it’ll help.
Rudi Miklosvary is the director of U.S. operations for Fliteboard. An Aussie transplant, Rudi’s one of those people I have the strange aspiration to be stuck with in a car, boat, or plane. His experience in a diversity of businesses across the globe is of keen interest to my design/business/systems/communications-oriented hamster wheel mind. When Rudi came calling with an offer to take me on a road trip packed with the latest and greatest from Fliteboard’s S2, I naturally
