When Wolfe proposed hosting a daylight only, multi-day rally last winter, I was all-in. Having worked with several other rallymasters, affectionately called The Illegimati, I know the struggles of getting enough riders to actually sign up despite the "pent up interest in another multi-day event" that is widely exhibited and professed. Both times, we barely got enough riders to make it worth the effort. Apparently, he also struggle with enrollment as the deadline approached, despite getting a deposit last winter.
Either way, it was a blast. Jean and I had our annual vacation in parallel to this event; a first for us. I rode, she helped. This made it fun as we combined in some sightseeing to the trip. On a side note, Jean's car decided the entry drive to the Fairfield was the perfect spot for the brakes to start grinding. On Saturday morning, I busted the main zipper on my riding suit and to top off the perfect weekend, my fuel cell developed a leak somewhere.
We are hoping that this becomes a regularish event; we also hope that the LL following, while very faithful, branches out a little and becomes more exposed to events beyond the LL world.
As a funny thing, we Americans usually think of Ontario as Toronto, Ottawa and then everything else. Ontario is huge, bigger than Texas huge. Its eastern border is just north of the NH/NY state line and its western border is that weird notch above Minnesota while stretching all the way to Hudson's Bay. It is almost entirely in the eastern time zone, which is really weird. And while we Americans have an odd understanding of the province, the locals have even a weirder one. Toronto is central, Montreal is to the east. Windsor is west. Ottawa is north, so is North Bay, and Thunder Bay and Dryden. Go ahead, look at map, I'll wait. Any way you look at it, the countryside is lovely with lots of rolling hills and glacial lakes. The longer revisit is added to the post retirement trip list.
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