Saturday Morning Grexwalks and Lunches

Jun 26 22:01 UTC 2003

If you are near Ann Arbor, join us for a Grex Walk!

Every Saturday morning, between 10:15-10:30 am, a bunch of Grexers gather
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.   Not all the walkers are Grex users: we have regular
attendance from friends, children and pets, and sometimes complete
strangers join us from our Event listing in the Observer.

   Summer: see the plants, feel the heat.  Bring a hat and 
   sunscreen, and maybe a water bottle and sunglasses.
   Some of the after-walk lunches will be outdoors.

> Summer walks with small children are taking about 90 minutes, 
> about 20 minutes longer than usual, so people usually make it 
> to the lunch debriefing between 12:15 and 12:45.   

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,
or on the web at
     http://www.cyberspace.org/~krj/lunch.txt

On most Saturdays -- all except FIRST SATURDAYS -- the walk
starts in Gallup Park, and we gather by the parking lot near the
entrance on Fuller Road.  Directions for how to find us are in
response #1 ( resp:1 ) of this item.

On the FIRST SATURDAY of each month, the walk is held at
Bird Hills Park.
Those dates will be:   Saturday, July 5
                       Saturday, August 2  
                       Saturday, September 6

Directions for how to find us in Bird Hills Park are in
response #2 ( resp:2 ) of this item.

Note: the walkers leave the gathering spots at 10:30 am SHARP.

response 2 of 163:

Jun 26 22:02 UTC 2003

For FIRST SATURDAYS, at Bird Hills Park,
Mapquest will get you close to our meeting place if you type in this address:

     1900 Newport Rd,   Ann Arbor, MI

Here's an ASCII text 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       \|||
                                  |||
  
 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.

response 4 of 163:

Jun 26 23:18 UTC 2003

Don't know if I'll make it --- i usually go to Habitat for Humanity in Ypsi
on Saturdays.  But if I don't go there, i'll probably be at the Walk !

response 6 of 163:

Jun 27 04:45 UTC 2003

How many are carried?  How many are led along on leashes?

response 8 of 163:

Jun 29 13:52 UTC 2003

Went to the debrief yesterday but not the walk.  Good turnout at
Paesano's:  krj, krokus, aruba, Carol, valerie, janc, Arlo, Kendra,
mary, Carlos, remmers.  Hope I didn't forget anybody.

response 10 of 163:

Jun 30 05:08 UTC 2003

The walk was fun, and was cool to watch the deer across the river.  I
thought it was something to just watch it be busy being a deer, and
not being very worried about the audience it had.

I much prefer watching them that way, then trying to figure if they're
going to end up in front of whatever I'm driving at the time.  :)

response 12 of 163:

Jul 3 16:02 UTC 2003

Another reason to want to live in the States. This isn't fair. Stop it,
people! :P

response 14 of 163:

Jul 8 19:35 UTC 2003

The report I heard was that only kaplan, Mutsie and Barney did the 
Bird Hills circuit on Saturday.  Other folks made it as far as 
the parking lot, looked out at the rain and decided they did not 
want to get wet.
 
Attendance for lunch at the Golden Chef, in approximate order of 
arrival:  bookie, janc, valerie, arlo, kendra, Carol, kaplan, 
krj, eskarina, dcat, their friend Inga.
 
A new restaurant was nominated for a future lunch, seconded, and in 
fact met with general acclaim, due to the sign in the window offering
"101 Vegetarian Specialties!"  The restaurant is  Madras Masala, 
328 Maynard, a new Indian restaurant in the former Sharayar space.
I think we'll go there this week while it's still new and exciting,
OK?

(Also, previously nominated by Carol and seconded by me:  Aladdin's,
the new middle eastern restaurant in the former Main Street Coney 
Island store front, on Main St. near Sabor Latino.

response 16 of 163:

Jul 8 22:08 UTC 2003

Depends on what you get.  The South Indian appetizers we had were good.  The
main dishes were uninteresting (and similar to each other).  The Naan is good.

response 18 of 163:

Jul 12 20:16 UTC 2003

I'm looking forward to hearing what folks thought of the
restaurant.  It would be nice to have another good Indian
food restaurant in Ann Arbor.  There is supposed to be
an extraordinary one somewhere in Bloomfield Hills or
Franklin (those suburbs all look alike to me), but I don't
recall the name or location.  

response 20 of 163:

Jul 12 22:45 UTC 2003

Re #18:  Possibly Priya, which is in one of the Bloomfields.  I can get you
         the location if you want.

response 22 of 163:

Jul 13 13:17 UTC 2003

Re: #20  I don't think that's the restaurant my Indian friend
was raving about but I'm going to email her and ask.  Thanks for
the offer and I'd like to know where Priya is located.

response 24 of 163:

Jul 14 15:52 UTC 2003

9.50 for a lunch buffet is pretty reasonable, especially since it was 
the weeken. In Columbus, a decent Indian lunch buffet on a weekend is 
usually $12.50, excluding tax