Re: [Callers] Fuel-efficient dancing

On 10/7/19 5:43 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote: I used to maintain BACDS's page describing how to get to (and, maybe, from) BACDS dances (<http://www.bacds.org/transit/>).  It was an example of benevolent self interest -- at the time, I had neither car nor drivers license, and transit was how I got to and from dances.  The page can use a bit of polish (some of the restaurant options are no longer around, and it's missing info for how to get to the Hayward contra or San Jose First Unitarian dances). At one point, I had prepared similar information for how to at least get to NBCDS and NBCDS-adjacent dances (this was close to 20 years ago, so the venues at that time would've been the Santa Rosa and San Rafael (in the Masonic Hall) contras, plus the long-defunct contras in Sonoma, Sebastopol, and St. Helena/Calistoga, and the long-defunct contra/family dance in Fairfax).  I had provided them to NBCDS back then, but nobody seemed interested, and I can't blame them; transit options in Marin and Sonoma Counties (let alone Napa County) are extremely limited if you're not within a mile of Golden Gate Transit's 101 bus lines, or the SMART trains today. Including transit and neighborhood guides (local restaurants and watering holes, etc.) isn't a lot of work, but it does require someone to do it, and that's always a challenge.  The same is true for organizing carpooling, although there are many options (www.groupcarpool.com and  www.ridesharing.com are a couple of examples) for helping organize ridesharing that weren't around twenty or even ten years ago. --Nick (in even more inaccessible Merced, CA)