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Still time to contribute ideas for the local Lucid rally/ drive before meeting at King of Prussia Lucid service center. Last year's event began at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, went to the Belmont plateau that overlooks the Philadelphia skyline, continued through the neighborhoods, meandering along creeks and hollows to emerge in King of Prussia. It was a great route. Kudos to those who plotted it! We want to visit and photo op around the area, have a nice bit of rally fun if we can ( I'm thinking a jaunt up 422W to test out the new "self-driving" software ). Also, Valley Forge National Park is literally right there:
There are self-guided (smart-phone) tours. Little known factoid: Valley Forge National Park has the largest whitetail deer population in the world. It is thought to have 48 to 63 billion deer. You will notice that even though there are lots of wooded areas in the park, the is not a single living thing -- not a weed nor a shrub nor even a tree, that exists from the dirt to about 5 feet up. Not a thing. All the deer in Pennsylvania (and the entire East coast of the US) are infected with Lyme disease. None of them eat dandelions. I digress..
I've fantasied about leading a column of Airs up Lincoln Drive along the Wissahickon creek, cross over Germantown Ave. in Chestnut Hill and follow Cresheim
Drive up to Stenton, then West to see the former King Ranch (used to be 500 acres of untouched pastureland ) past the Morris Arboritum, to Conshohocken to get on the Sure-Kill to KoP, or better, we should go the "back way" through W. Consho...again in the hollows following creeks to the Great Valley and KoP. But no, this might not be fun for non-locals. The Lincoln Drive / Cresheim drive part is actually quite dangerous. It's better to do this route during a snow-storm = less traffic.
Anyway I think a photo opp at Valley Forge park is good - it's right there, has lots of room to gather the cars, and parts of it are nice to look at -- like the enormous herd of deer in the Grand Parade meadow. It's very expensive (and 7 months) to kill them with your Lucid.
You many think I am joking, but the Park has a deer cull, or used to, to address the problem: they bait the grand meadow with corn then sit on the overlook with silenced rifles and shoot as many as they can. Has effectively INCREASED the deer population in the suburban collar counties of Philadelphia = where there is lots to eat, and no predators ( I have seen coyotes in my yard...but no bears or lions ). I think if we introduce polar bears to the Park it would make a real dent in the deer problem -- tourist problem too.
There are self-guided (smart-phone) tours. Little known factoid: Valley Forge National Park has the largest whitetail deer population in the world. It is thought to have 48 to 63 billion deer. You will notice that even though there are lots of wooded areas in the park, the is not a single living thing -- not a weed nor a shrub nor even a tree, that exists from the dirt to about 5 feet up. Not a thing. All the deer in Pennsylvania (and the entire East coast of the US) are infected with Lyme disease. None of them eat dandelions. I digress..
I've fantasied about leading a column of Airs up Lincoln Drive along the Wissahickon creek, cross over Germantown Ave. in Chestnut Hill and follow Cresheim
Drive up to Stenton, then West to see the former King Ranch (used to be 500 acres of untouched pastureland ) past the Morris Arboritum, to Conshohocken to get on the Sure-Kill to KoP, or better, we should go the "back way" through W. Consho...again in the hollows following creeks to the Great Valley and KoP. But no, this might not be fun for non-locals. The Lincoln Drive / Cresheim drive part is actually quite dangerous. It's better to do this route during a snow-storm = less traffic.
Anyway I think a photo opp at Valley Forge park is good - it's right there, has lots of room to gather the cars, and parts of it are nice to look at -- like the enormous herd of deer in the Grand Parade meadow. It's very expensive (and 7 months) to kill them with your Lucid.
You many think I am joking, but the Park has a deer cull, or used to, to address the problem: they bait the grand meadow with corn then sit on the overlook with silenced rifles and shoot as many as they can. Has effectively INCREASED the deer population in the suburban collar counties of Philadelphia = where there is lots to eat, and no predators ( I have seen coyotes in my yard...but no bears or lions ). I think if we introduce polar bears to the Park it would make a real dent in the deer problem -- tourist problem too.
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