Danielle Dorsey wouldn’t miss it, so she’s flying in from Portland, Ore. “I can’t believe they are expecting 300 Santas this year,” Dorsey said. “I’m sure it’s going to be a blast.” Rhonda Lyons wants to be part of it, so she’s driving from Santa Rosa, Calif., with “15 or 20″ friends in four or five cars. “There are just Santas everywhere,” Lyons said. “It’s just a sea of red.” Matt Goedert started it, so he’s ready to lead the fifth Santa Crawl on Saturday in downtown Reno, where bands of crawlers dressed in Santa suits will visit any or all of 23 taverns and clubs, drink up and raise money for the Food Bank of Northern Nevada. “Little kids would point at us,” Goedert said of previous all-night crawls. “Police cars would turn on their lights. We felt like rock stars.” It’s Christmas. Everybody, especially it seems bartenders, likes Santa. “Santas do tip well,” said Goedert, a Reno tax attorney. “Probably because we’re all over 30 and do other jobs.”

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