4th of July in Little Dubai

Unlike Seattle, Bellevue has a downtown park (Orin O’Neill photos)

Fireworks displays in Seattle were down to one, at Lake Union. It’s the economy, dontcha know. No corporate sponsorship.

Just in case

Just prior to the GTS’ hospitalization, I succumbed to a fit of pique and put it on Craigslist, cheap. In order to maximize the return, I took off the topcase and windscreen, with the idea of selling them separately.

Needless to say, I’m glad I didn’t sell the GTS. After riding it in a (for a lack of a better term) “naked” state for a while, I decided to put the topcase and windscreen back on.

Necessity is a mother

Safety Ed made a backrest out of materials in his basement (Orin O’Neill photos)

All my road trips with the PX were about 200 miles (or in the case of the ‘08 Oregon Road Trip, 200 miles/day). I was usually pretty beat at the end of the day; I expected such journeys with the GTS to be much more relaxing, with a possibility of 300-mile days.

However, the trip to Neah Bay and back was about 300 miles. And I was more beat than I ever expected to be.

Do you know the way to Neah Bay?

Orin O’Neill photos

Rather than wallow in misery about not being able to ride to San Jose (Jodie has daily updates) I decided to take a long ride on Wednesday. A looong ride.

Hitting the ‘Reset’ button

Orin O’Neill photos

My new favorite look-on-the-sunny-side phrase is, when life hands you lemons, marinate some shrimp. Fresh-squeezed lemon juice, butter, some basil. Mmmm. I love shrimp.

So you’ll know the way to San Jose

Scooter Insanity 22 wrapped up today. We sent a dozen riders off on their 5-day journey to Amerivespa 2009. Here’s the route:

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Damn, I wish I could’ve gone…

Going riding on the freeway, again

It’s early, for a Saturday anyway. The sun is shining, a perfect day in store for Scooter Insanity 22’s Saturday ride to Mukilteo. But the Alaskan Way Viaduct will be closed for the Rock ‘n Roll Seattle Marathon.

Farrah and Michael

I looked, but if Michael Jackson or Farrah Fawcett were ever photographed riding a scooter, the images are not available online.