MAINE: my final frontier. These are the voyages of the Scooter Vespa 250 i.e. Super. Its continuing mission - to explore America's most heavily forested state - to roam the vast coastline, numberless lakes, and mighty mountains. To boldly go where no scooter has gone before!

Thursday, March 22, 2012

One Year on my Vespa

Here I am, standing proudly with my one-year-old Vespa GTS 250 i.e. Super, on the day the marvelous machine and I celebrated one year as a team.


In that year, riding nearly every day, in every month, we shared 8704 miles on Maine's highways and backroads. I am 63 years old, and have made a lot of poor decisions in that time - but buying this scooter was without question the best purchase I've ever made (Best overall decision was asking Kathy to marry me 37 years ago).

I intend to ride until I can't move a muscle - then I'm going to have a rig like this made for me:

 

Mike T. of  http://scooterthefun.blogspot.com/ is using a real camera, with actual film, to record the beauty of Cundy's Harbor. Cool as the new digital stuff is, there's nothing like film. It's like the difference between vinyl and a CD or mp3: close, maybe - but a tad too different for my taste.


This is Cundy's Harbor


 Everything is ready for the summer tourists, including the picnic tables. We like to keep them stacked up so the summer people will go away, but most of them figure out how to get them down.

Summer pest: "Room Service? Please send up a towel."

Mainer: "You'll have to wait - someone else is using it."