Re: Ren Fest Directions

["Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>]

Poster: "Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>


Eogan mac Ailpein wrote, anent the Raleigh Renaissance Faire:
> > From the south or north;
> > Take your best route to Raleigh.  Get on the Beltline going west. Get off
> > at the Hillsborough exit going west.  Turn right on Youth Center Rd. as you
> > come into sight of the Trinity Rd intersection you will turn right into
> > the parking lot.  There will be signs directing you from Hillsborough St.

Manus MacDhai added a note:
> What Eogan refers to as "the Beltline" is I-440, a loop that circles 
> Raleigh.  Depending on where you are in the loop, it may also be I-40 
> (if you are on the south side of Raleigh), US 1 and/or US 64.  (quite 
> confusing at times...)

Alfredo el Bufon elucidates further:
You can't really get on the Beltline going west, you have to decide
whether you want to get on clockwise or counterclockwise.  The
Beltline signs (marked with a cute little picture of a green and
yellow ski cap) call this getting on the Inner Loop or the Outer
Loop, but it's really two different directions on the Inner Loop
(The real Outer Loop is incomplete).  If you imagine the Beltline
as a clock going around Raleigh, you'll notice three things:
1) It's misshapen, like in that Dali painting.
     <http://gs.knave.co.uk/users/dw64/images/sa040.html>
2) A car going 60 mph on the "Inner Loop" can pace the minute
     hand of the imaginary clock.
3) Hillsborough is somewhere around 9:00.

Therefore, from the north, you'll want to take the "Outer Loop",
but from the south, you'll want to take the "Inner Loop"

Unless I got things backards.

-- Alfredo el Bufon
Elvegast
 

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