Christmas Lights RoadRally December 16 2006 - last NEOKLA rally of 2006

[rotaryracer]

Good idea. Anybody know a rally guy that can figure out a cool route? You have this teams' support. 3 maybe 4 entries. Unless you insist on street legal entries. Haha. We all have daily drivers.

[gregaryus]

I put on a couple of them.   I "usuaully" keep a copy of my events.   Let me check the "rally vaults".  It may be a few days before I have an answer.

[gregaryus]

I couldn't find those particular events, but, I did rerun part of the routes.     The economy means about half the lights.     Here's a route with the best for last.     Start by driving to Swan Lake (one way streets near 18th and Utica) and take a lap of it.     Next go south on Utica and make a lap of Utica Square.     Then proceed west on 21st and go left on Cincinnati.     Turn left at the second street.     Follow this street to 31st.     (you may chose to explore to the left and right as you work your way to 31st)     Go left on 31st to Harvard, where you will turn right (south) and work your way past 61st.     Turn right onto 67th (first through street) and go through the 3-way stop.      Turn right onto Timberlane.     Follow Timberlane past the dead end on the right, then turn left onto 67th then a QUICK left onto an un-named side street.     One block away should be an overhead spiderweb of lights.     Immediately after these lights turn right onto an un-named side street.     You will curve around a pond.     Then go left at the T intersection onto Birmingham and then left at a Y to follow Birmingham.     The stop sign you come to is 71st.     Go to the right to get to Lewis and make your way home.

[rotaryracer]

Sounds like that could be done in under 2 hours. Any body game for non-timed family type rally? Meet @ 6-6:30? Tiki's 15th & utica. Any eve will b fine for me except thurs.(jv hockey game night) Cruise the route then meet for hot choc & coffee? Easy & Fun? Right?

[gregaryus]

It took me about thirty minutes to run the route at 6:00am on a Sunday morning, without exploring the streets between 21st and 31st.     I didn't have a set of instructions to look at, since I knew the route nor did I have "normal" traffic to deal with.     I'm guessing it would take close to an hour with explorations and evening traffic.     

[rotaryracer]

I took the grandsons light looking earlier this eve. There was alot of the oohs & ahs. Of course we slowed down for the busier locations. Ie more lights & things that move. The family is planning a trip to Rema wed. 5:30 ish. Does anyone know of more locations in BA? 

[gregaryus]

Glad that you enjoyed that short route.

[rotaryracer]

We took the route as best we could. It took a couple hours. LOTS of oohs & ahhs ! ! All of us kids enjoied it! We drove SLOW and took a few side streets. THANK YOU FOR THE  SUGGESTED ROUTE ! ! Merry Christmas from our family to yours.

[JC_Freak]

We took this route last night. It was very nice. Thanks for sharing it. The end was really cool.

[gregaryus]

Glad that some folks went out and enjoyed the route.     I noticed that the key words were "SLOWLY ran the route".     I had to hurry through it after dropping off Robbie at work.     It's a LOT faster at 6am Sunday morning.     I had to rely on my memory for the instructions with two exceptions.     I had to run the last bit twice since some street signs were missing.     I was hoping that no more signs would vanish.     I was also hoping that there would not be some messages from "the lost".