On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 13:02:58 -0400, Frank Krygowski
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frkr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Apparently, we're moving into an age where helmets, daytime taillights
> and smart phones will all become mandatory. :-/
When I made my first attempt, I was horrified to learn that the map
handed out was useless -- it was merely a decoration on the brochure.
It did serve to tell me whether the lake was supposed to be on my left
or right.
I had printed out some screen shots of the more-detailed map on the
web site just in case, but, certain that I would recieve a map at the
start, I hadn't annotated it with street names. (I had brought a
county map, and could annotate at rest stops.)
But who-ever stuck the arrows on the pavement -- one improvement is
that route marks now come as rolls of tape that have been cut
dovetail, so that each piece has a point on one end and a notch on the
other -- had done such a magnificent job that I got into trouble only
when I decided to cut a loop off the marked route.
The only glitch I found was that a right turn was directed down a
short road that cut off the corner, and there was no arrow at the
right turn at the end of the cut off, and no confirmation arrow on the
road one was supposed to turn onto. It was fairly obvious that one
was supposed to turn right, but not so obvious that I didn't go back
to look at the previous mark.
But I didn't know *precisely* where to look for check-point two, and
by the time I was certain that I had missed it, I'd gone too far to go
back to Pizza King for my intended fuel-up and rest in the cool, and
the rest of the ride was all out in the country, so I ended up under a
magnificent oak tree waiting for Dave to come for me in the pick-up
truck. (Maybe that is why they call them pick-ups.)