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Green Hills Of Earth Driving Tour 2023 - Return to the Green Hills - FEBRUARY 19th
Registration is required before Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Registration cancellations will be accepted until Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 6:00 PM
DATE: Sunday 02/19
TIME: 8:30-9:00AM -- Drive off at 9:30AM
This event will be held RAIN or SHINE
STARTING POINT: Novato near hwy 101 [parking lot in Novato Vintage Oaks Shopping Center just outside Starbucks] Join us again on the interesting and challenging roads in and among the verdant green hills of Sonoma and Napa Counties. Return route will be optional and interesting back through the Sonoma County hills and through Petaluma back to Novato.
NOTE: An organized lunch is planned, see notes below.
Printed maps and turn-by-turn instructions will be provided.
This is a rain-or-shine drive, so plan accordingly, [check your tires, brakes, and wipers].
You must come to the starting/staging point for an up-to-the-minute route update, driver’s meeting, and to confirm your lunch registration. SEPARATE registration is required for lunch. Please look for the additional event listing and sign-up for lunch there.
As always you may make your own arrangements for lunch in Calistoga at the halfway point instead of the organized group lunch if you prefer. We will set a departure time for the second leg of the tour so all can join back up and enjoy the afternoon portion of the tour regardless of your lunch choice.
--- inspiration for the name and the imminent/expected/hoped-for/overdue end of the NorCal drought ---
The Green Hills of Earth
Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me
As they rove around the girth
Of our lovely mother planet
Of the cool, green hills of Earth.
We've tried each spinning space mote
And reckoned its true worth:
Take us back again to the homes of men
On the cool, green hills of Earth.
The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
And the lights below us fade.
Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps a race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet ---
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
~ Robert A. Heinlein 1907-1988