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This is a slice of the pleasure, fair and Khalfani market. This Renaissance faires started three years ago in San Francisco, and it's grown such proportions that no longer can handle the huge crowds that one in 10,000 people a day are allowed in. That number is usually

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reached in the first two or three hours of its opening. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the people are turned away by the hundreds. The result. A new home may have to be found for this 16th century event next year. Well, first of all, because the

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access to this area here as beautiful as it is and we truly love this site as beautiful it is, though we are have the access Excuse me of a two lane highway, and with the crowds to come here to the fair upwards of 10,000 people, we

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have to have a close highway to a fair site where we can handle all the cars and get at the same time. It's got to be far enough away from civilization where people can truly step back into the 16th century and not be hassled, shall we

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say, by 20th century necessity in other words, they can get the whole feeling of the fair and move back into the 16th century. And yet we still have to find an area where the cars can move in. And we can get people in and out without

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the Highway Patrol having too much of a problem without us having too much of a problem. And so people can move easily in and out of the fairgrounds. And this is why we think we're gonna have to move from this site here as beautiful as you

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can see it. ISS Perhaps there's some special significance that so many people would endure such heat in such a mammoth traffic jam for the simple purpose of trying to escape. And it seems a pity that such simple attempts at

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escape into the 16th century can't be accommodated by the 20th century. This is Evan White, reporting for eyewitness news from the woods in Marin