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JANUARY 2012 • BACKROADS
Fall Fiesta 2011
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nce again the Earth did its yearly trip round the sun and with the days significantly shorter and the weather starting to cool it was time for our annual Autumnal gathering we call the Fall Fiesta. This time around we wanted to do things a bit differently and head to some places we had not sojourned to in the past so we looked back on a ride we did last fall with the folks from Americade. Along one of the day trips we ended up in the tiny seaside town of Booth Bay, Maine. Here Shira and I split from the rather large group and ended up finding an inn called the Ocean Point. It took us about two minutes walking around the place to know we would be doing something up this way. The problem was getting our group up and back. This, we thought, we’d handle with a few nights on the road heading to and from Maine. We have done rallies like this before, but this one would be a bit different as we had made up routes so intricate that we felt they were best done by GPS; thus this rally would have no route sheets. We were not sure if this venture into a totally techno-ride would fly, but we would give it a shot. Worse come to worse we could always go back to Manually Acquired Positioning System, also known as MAPS, and make the best of it the old-fashioned way.