December 9, after the rally: thanks everyone for coming to drive around San Francisco today! There were about 20 cars in the usual various states of restoration. The 2800CS had Christmas decorations to celebrate the holidays and today (when Santa-Con was active). Most people I heard liked the rally route, although I must apologize that Medical Center Way was closed today (it was open 2 weeks ago; I almost used a photo clearly from that street). I'm pleased, however, that many of you detoured around to see Snoopy & Woodstock Park.
Some of you were almost perfect on numbering and identifying the photos while others got just a few (some were effected by young lookout eyes being more interested in their brother than shouting out the view in a photo). Just so all of you can check, or even verify the results if you use this rally later for a private drive in SF, I have attached the photo key below (to compliment the route instructions). Also, the extra credit photo was Yoda Fountain in the plaza just off Letterman Drive in The Presidio.
I encourage all of you with photos to post them in the FAQ Photo Gallery I setup for NT49MD-23--[Photo Gallery for NT49MD-23].
Hope to see all of you and many others at Swap and Show-24 on 4 May 2024!
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See below for rally start details, Driver's Protocol and Route Instructions!
Hey, December is coming up fast— that means Not the 49-Mile Drive
on 9 December is getting close!
As you know from the BayArea 02 calendar, our rally around San Francisco is the 2nd Saturday in December. At this point our Rallymeister is still working on the route so we do not yet have gathering details in place. But we’re considering finishing near an Off the Grid location where you can buy from a food truck for outdoor nourishment. American food and international food may be available.
We plan to meet at 9:30AM again so cars will be underway by 10.
While so far this year Covid19 is less prominent we still need to be careful (just ask my sister who today is quarantined along with her entire facility in Pasadena due to multiple Covid19 cases). And flu is on the rise. Based on recent history, we still encourage social distancing, masking if you choose and other protocol to make sure our rally is safe, friendly and fun.
Stay tuned!
Larry Ayers
Note: You can see a few photos from NT49MD-2019 at [Photos from NT49MD-2019]. Photos from 2020 are at [Some photos from NT49MD-2020] and [More photos from NT49MD-2020]. A few from last year are here [NT49MD-2022 photos]; it rained a lot last year but in the last 20 years I only recall one other very wet NT49MD so we will probably be (mostly) dry.
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Not the
49-Mile Drive-2023 on 9 December, 2023— Starting details
We have a confirmed route! We will meet at 9:00 to 9:30AM at the Moraga Avenue Parking lot, in The Presidio across the street from the Officer’s Club (
50 Moraga Ave.). The driver’s meeting will start at 9:30 AM and we plan to have all cars off by 10:00 AM. While it’s possible the drive is faster if Google’s Auntie is whispering turn instructions in your ear, it took me just over 2 hours on Saturday starting at 10:00 AM. But of course, I did stop for a few photos and to backtrack around the block when I missed a detail (that’s why I drive it before calling the route final…).
On a beautiful sunny November Saturday I found about 7 food trucks at the rally end with a selection of cuisine: American, Mexican, Pakistani, Singaporean and Italian. Sometimes you may also find a coffee truck, a liquor bar and an ice cream truck.
A couple of comments: check your brakes since there are a few 1st gear hills to go up and down. Also, some roads are narrow but generally passable for our fairly narrow cars (well, a 2002 is bigger than the few Fiat-500’s I saw). One road in particular has a line of parked cars on either side with a single lane down the middle for 2-way traffic (I did need to yield a couple of times but courtesy pays off; oh, it was on a bit of a hill).
We expect to post the route instructions and Driver’s Protocol about 7 December so you can download them for your convenient printing or viewing.
There will be a photo gallery on FAQ Photo Gallery NT49MD-23 on FAQ where all attendees can post their images. It helps to have all of them collected together.
See you soon!
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Here is the NT49MD-23 Driver’s Protocol, discussing some general items about our rally. Expect the route instructions to be posted tomorrow so you can print them yourself or download them to your personal device.
I just posted the NT49MD-23 route instructions (on 7 Dec.); they may be easier to read if you load them onto your personal device, depending on legibility of a Word document with photos embedded.
Hope to see you the day after tomorrow!
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