Saturday Morning Grex Walks and Lunches

Mar 1 04:33 UTC 2006

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

Every Saturday morning, around 10:30-ish 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.
The walks and lunches have gone on for over 15 years.

Feel free to come to the walk but not lunch, or the lunch but not
to the walk.    The gathering for the lunch is generally at noon.

   We pick a different place for lunch each week.
   The person who picks the lunch sites is a petty despot who takes
   suggestions on where we go, but who tends to stack the deck
   in favor of popular locations.

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, March 4   

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

response 2 of 16:

Mar 1 04:35 UTC 2006

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.