Indy 35mph and Amerivespa. June 10 – 14, 2015.
It’s scooter party time! Skip this post if you’re sick of seeing photos of a bazillion scooters, or Davide’s face. Yep, it’s round two of rally-to-rally riding with the crazy Italian on a Beemer. Besides seeing people, the big draw for me this year at Amerivespa was that we’d be allowed...
Return to Mad-Town! May 31 – June 9, 2015.
Sometimes it surprises people to learn that in all my trekking across the U.S. I hadn’t ridden more than 400 miles in a day – I just don’t really want to if I don’t have to. I know other GTS riders who have, and a few riders have even...
Arch Friends and My Favorite Museum Ever in St Louis. May 25 – 30, 2015.
I was too tired and missed visiting Saint Louis the first time around when I was headed west. This time I reached out to Myke, and he had a place for me to stay a whole week! There’s a very direct route from Memphis to Saint Louis along US-67,...
Memphis As Fuck. May 22 – 24, 2015.
Prepare for food, scooters, and wrasslin’, because that’s what’s happening in Memphis. I reached out to some folks at Memphis Kings SC for things to do and a place to crash, which is how I met Cassi. I’ve come to enjoy the stretching and compressing of time over distance, watching as...
Dogpatches and Adventure Riding in Arkansas. May 15 – 21, 2015.
I’d heard the Ozarks had beautiful riding, but I had no idea how to start. Truth be told, before visiting Arkansas it had so little bearing on my life that I wouldn’t have been able to point it out on a map (this can be said of many of...
Gear Talk: The GTS Tourer
The Vespa GTS 250/300 is pretty cushy for touring straight out of the crate, but here are some small additions that go the distance. I run stock inside, so really this is just a rundown of some luggage and electronic accessories I put on there. The often-asked, long-awaited breakdown...
Texas Forever Part 2: Bikes, Buddies, Brisket, and Books. April 18 – May 14, 2015.
Houston has been the home of my uncle and aunt for as long as I can remember. My earliest memories of carsickness – I mean, road trips – are of taking the family car from Atlanta to visit them. In any case, I have my own two wheels now,...
Texas Forever Part 1: It’s Plains to see I’m going to Austin. April 6 – April 17, 2015.
I’m making tracks! For those wondering how I chart a path, it’s roughly planned around a few fixed dates, and locations where I know I can hole up for a while. In this case, I had a motorcycle event I wanted to attend in Austin, and an impending work...
Up In Two-stroke Smoke in Denver. April 1-5, 2015.
Colorado has been the most difficult riding I’ve done so far. I wanted to see scooter friends in Denver, did some research, and picked Salida as a waypoint. It appeared to be the best of both worlds for this early in the year; a cute town, splitting the different...
Plan: The Way of the Scooterist, Winter 2015 Edition
So, I’m still on the road! I’ll be dividing my time between the east coast and California. I wish I could stay longer in New England to watch the leaves changes (it’s my favorite place for autumn), but a few immovable dates and the imminent cold is pulling me...