A New Starting Point

Athens, OH dérive - January 27th, 2007 - 45 degrees F - 4:10 p.m.

Start: Athens Library - Home St and Lincoln St
Decided on Second Left and First Right algorithm.

Head down Lincoln St following....

2nd Left - onto Meadow Lane into a small housing complex with identical duplex homes. Two rows of homes. Homes appear very uniform. Built for affordability and utility. Due to the "U" path of the road, our next Right is onto Lincoln. This would take us back to the Library parking lot which we would exit and come back down Lincoln and take a second left onto Meadow Lane. We've entered a loop. Rather than enter the Library parking lot we follow the curve and take second Left onto Elmwood Dr.
1st Right - onto Lorene Ave.
2nd Left - onto E. State St.
1st Right - quick Right onto Ransom St. E. State Street divides the neighborhoods.
Forced Left - onto McGuffey Ln.
2nd Left - onto Tulane St. which is a split street, but both called Tulane St.
1st Right - back onto E. State St.
2nd Left - onto S. Shannon St. back into starting point neighborhood.
1st Right - onto Elmwood, a bricked road with large brick homes.
2nd Left - back onto E. State St. again!
1st Right - onto small, steep Merkle St. We might be off E. State for good now, and back into predominately college housing.
2nd Left and forced - onto Grosvenor St.
1st Right - up small, alley-like Fort St. Turns into a larger street and follows along top of hill and leads back down to....
2nd Left - Congress Street.

We end on Congress Street and Carpenter Street by Mt. Zion church.

Originally I thought starting at by the Library we would explore the adjacent neighborhood much more but with skipping the first left, it takes us a bit further away than I expected. This is a small area. Second turns may often not happen on some of the streets. We need to decide a standard rule for these situations to follow. Or do we decide each separate dérive and let the path take us as it goes?