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Grex > Agora41 > #15: Walk every Saturday with people near Ann Arbor who use Grex | |
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krj
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Walk every Saturday with people near Ann Arbor who use Grex
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Mar 22 17:49 UTC 2002 |
If you are near Ann Arbor, join us for a Grex Walk!
Every Saturday morning at approximately 10:15 am a bunch of Grexers meet
for a 75-90 minute walk, followed by lunch at a local eatery.
Newcomers are most eagerly welcome; this is an opportunity to meet
and socialize with other Grex folks and get some exercise in the
bargain.
Spring is a great time to come out and join the walkers if you have
been cooped up all winter. There will probably be a bit of mud
on the trails until everything dries out, and then we can watch
the bud and leaf season start.
The walk usually takes a bit over an hour, so people usually make it to
the lunch debriefing between 11:45 and 12:15. Feel free to come
to the walk but not lunch, or the lunch but not to the walk.
Everything's very informal.
Currently we pick a different place for lunch each week. Watch this
item and make suggestions if you have a favorite place that we could
visit. With few exceptions, any restaurant that receives a nomination
and a second will be put on the list for a future debriefing.
The upcoming lunch schedule can be seen with the !lunch command.
On the FIRST SATURDAY of each month, the walk is held at Bird Hills
Park.
Those dates will be: Saturday, April 6
Saturday, May 4
Saturday, June 1
Directions for how to find us in Bird Hills Park are in
response #1 ( resp:1 ) of this item.
On ALL OTHER SATURDAYS, the walk starts in Gallup Park, and we gather
by the first parking lot near the entrance on Fuller Road.
Directions for how to find us at Gallup Park are in response #2
( resp:2 ) of this item.
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krj
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response 1 of 198:
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Mar 22 17:50 UTC 2002 |
For FIRST SATURDAYS,
here's a description of how to meet us in Bird Hills Park:
(credit: Jan Wolter)
Jackson Dexter \\\/ NORTH =>
Road Road \X\
| / /\\\ Maple Road
---|----/-----------/--\\\----------------
| / / \\\
| / / \\\ M-14
| / Miller / \\\
|/ Road / \\\
| / \\\
| / school ||| Newport Road
| /---------------------,------------------
| 7th / ||| --' |
----|-------/ ||| Park Here |
| / ||| | Bird
Huron | / Miller ||| | Road
| | Road ||| |
Downtown | ___|||___________________|___
Ann --------------------'-. ||| Huron River Drive
Arbor Main \|||
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So you want Newport road, just where it crosses the M-14 highway.
Just a wee bit north of the bridge is a little dirt road that slopes
down to a little parking lot. The walk meets there. If you are
coming from the highway, note that there is no exit at Newport, just
at Main Street and at Maple and Miller. Getting from Main to Huron
River Drive is a bit tricky. Be alert. Amateurs may do better
approaching Newport Road from Miller Road. Occasionally the parking
lot gate is left locked. Park at the school and walk across the
bridge.
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krj
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response 2 of 198:
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Mar 22 17:52 UTC 2002 |
Gallup Park directions, for Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Saturdays:
We meet in the parking lot just off Fuller Road, opposite Huron High
School, just west of Huron Parkway. Here's a small map:
\ -----
\ F \ | HHS | | H |
| \ u \ ----- | u |
| | \ l \ | r |
| | \ l \ | o |
Furstenburg \ e \ | n |
Park __ \ r \ | |
/..\ | \ \ | P |
/.....\ | | \ | k |
/......| / \ \ | w |\
\...../ | | | y | \
|.....| | | | |\ \
\....| | | /--\ | | \
|....| | *| |..| | | \
|....| | | |..| | |
|....| | | |..| | |
|....| \ / /...\| |
-------/.....\--|-|-/.....\---
....Huron River.| |...........
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Gallup Park
Grexers meet in the parking lot near where the "*" is.
Please NOTE: we meet by the FIRST parking lot, before the bridge over
the river. If you need to drive over the bridge to find a parking
space, you'll have to backtrack to meet us.
(Gallup Park Grexwalk directions originally by Mark Conger (aruba))
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krj
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response 3 of 198:
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Mar 22 17:54 UTC 2002 |
Rereading last Agora's walking item, I see danr had some objections
to the item title. Suggestions welcomed!
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scott
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response 4 of 198:
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Mar 22 21:58 UTC 2002 |
Restaurant suggestions are also welcomed. As lunchadm I'm responsible for
scheduling various local restaurants, but I often can't attend myself. If
there are restaurants you'd like to add, please list them here.
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krj
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response 5 of 198:
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Mar 22 22:29 UTC 2002 |
The current schedule displayed with the !lunch command (and what is
the URL for our Web readers?) indicates that the April 6
restaurant was to be Shaharayar, near the Maynard parking ramp.
My recollection is that they closed some months ago.
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scott
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response 6 of 198:
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Mar 22 23:25 UTC 2002 |
Oops. I'll fix the Shaharyr date.
The Web-enabled version of !lunch is at:
http://www.cyberspace.org/~scott/lunch.txt
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danr
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response 7 of 198:
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Mar 22 23:41 UTC 2002 |
I think we ought to put Paesano's on the list.
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aruba
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response 8 of 198:
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Mar 23 01:37 UTC 2002 |
I'd like to suggest The Creekside, on Jackson Road near Zeeb.
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russ
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response 9 of 198:
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Mar 23 04:07 UTC 2002 |
Re #7: I hear that Paesano's menu has been radically cut
and it's no longer a very good place to go; no variety.
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remmers
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response 10 of 198:
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Mar 23 12:48 UTC 2002 |
I was at Paesano's about a week ago and didn't notice a
lack of variety; certainly no decline in quality. I second
Paesano's.
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mcnally
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response 11 of 198:
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Mar 23 14:59 UTC 2002 |
Is Paesano's a recent addition to Ann Arbor's dining scene or
did I lose whichever neurons were responsible for remembering it?
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rcurl
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response 12 of 198:
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Mar 23 15:22 UTC 2002 |
I'm not a member of the Walk crowd, but my impression is that Paesano's
is a little more upscale and pricey than the usual restaurant preferences.
This is in no way a criticism of anything, but just a neutral observation....
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ea
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response 13 of 198:
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Mar 23 20:55 UTC 2002 |
Paesano's has been on Washtenaw Ave. near Arborland for as long as I can
remember (at least 10 years).
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orinoco
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response 14 of 198:
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Mar 23 22:38 UTC 2002 |
I don't walk these days either, but I think Rane might have a point. Of
course, the food there's fantastic, so it might be worth it to y'all.
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krj
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response 15 of 198:
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Mar 23 23:26 UTC 2002 |
For the first walk of the spring we had good Michigan spring weather:
it was sunny. OK, it was windy and cold, but it was sunny!
The All-Guy Walkers were, roughly in order of arrival:
janc, krj, jep, his son John, danr, kaplan, Barney, Mutsie, and aruba.
(OK, Mutsie's not a guy.) We admired the large wood chip pile
being created from all the ice storm debris. I saw a few leaf buds
starting to open in hedges along Geddes Road. By the time we
returned to the parking lot, the wind had blown over one of the
two porta-potties which had been set up for some park event.
We had to wait 30 minutes or so for a large table at Cafe Marie;
the number of extra grexers coming out for lunch testified to
the restaurant's popularity. All the walkers went to lunch except
danr and the canines. Seating map:
Ross kaplan valerie/baby scott arabella Carol
chanur aruba
arlo janc young John jep krj
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janc
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response 16 of 198:
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Mar 24 13:26 UTC 2002 |
It was cool to meet the two Johns. I'd met the elder John a couple
times long ago, but not the younger John.
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jep
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response 17 of 198:
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Mar 25 17:08 UTC 2002 |
Little John enjoyed the walk so much he wanted to go back Sunday and do
the same walk. (-: Instead we went to nearby Hidden Lake Gardens and
went on a somewhat shorter walk there.
I'd never met kaplan, chanur, arlo or Carol before. I may or may not
have met scott. It was a little embarrassing how poorly I remembered
those I'd met before. I guess that's what happens when you see people
very rarely.
It was nice walking with everyone, and nice chatting with people over
lunch. I think Little John and I will both try to come back again
sometime when we get the chance.
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eskarina
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response 18 of 198:
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Mar 25 17:48 UTC 2002 |
Fun.
I forget, remind me why the botanical garden walks never worked out?
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danr
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response 19 of 198:
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Mar 27 01:14 UTC 2002 |
Great, John! We can always use more walkers.
Re: Paesano's. At lunch it's no more expensive than some of the other
places we go. I went there for lunch about a month ago, and the offer a
soup and personal pizza for $7.
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janc
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response 20 of 198:
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Mar 27 19:19 UTC 2002 |
We used to do Botanical Gardens walks on days when we knew there was
going to be some festival jamming up Gallup park (mainly the Jazz
Festival, which jams with the best of them). It's been a while. I
wouldn't mind doing it again.
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void
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response 21 of 198:
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Mar 27 21:52 UTC 2002 |
Wasn't Paesano's Bimbo's on the Hill in a former life?
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krj
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response 22 of 198:
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Mar 27 22:44 UTC 2002 |
My recollection is that dogs are not welcome in the botanical
garden. ??
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janc
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response 23 of 198:
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Mar 28 01:14 UTC 2002 |
Oh yeah. That was it. The dogs are regulars, and should be
accomodated.
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janc
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response 24 of 198:
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Mar 28 14:43 UTC 2002 |
You know, there is a yahoogroups email list called 'grexwalk'. There is
almost never any discussion on it, but once a week a robot mails out the
location of the next lunch. Sometimes there is discussion of a walk location
needs to be changed. Anyway, anybody can join this list, and we ought to
announce it's existance in this item.
Only I forgot how you join these things.
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