Know Your Rides

Pistol Pete
The Las Vegas scooter rally, High Rollers Weekend 2009, was a hoot! Yet again many amazingly restored, modified, chopped, and ratted-out scooters showed. The rides were fun, and the people were entertaining.
I didn't win a damned thing in the raffle.

Photos are appearing here.

One week later...

The Rides of March scooter rally was a good time for all. I wasn't quite used to the hilly roads and blind corners, but I was able to push into my limits and get some good experience. I am always amazed at how skilled, calm, and insane most of the people on these rides are.
I didn't win a damned thing in the raffle.

Photos from the rally will probably be here.

The ride out to the coast was very beautiful. We got to stop by the newly opened Chick-Fil-A in Bakersfield, CA (a freakin' facebook page!) for a delicious sammich. We spent some time in Pismo Beach and San Luis Obispo (CA). Pismo Beach water was like ice, and SLO was a fine little city. I have not seen much of California beach, but what i've seen some parts are nice but with a black volcanic sand element I'm not used to. Give me an nice warm Atlantic beach any time.


The photo for this blog is of an amazing scooter photographer Pistol Pete, whose photos can be perused at http://www.flickr.com/photos/scooterpics/

My name is Richard Henry Lee; Virginia is my home.

My name is Richard Henry Lee; Virginia is my home
And my horses turn to glue if I can't deliver
Unto you a resolution on independency!

So, I'm visiting Virginia for work training, and it's a nice place. Living in Georgia, I never was able to make my way up here to visit the capitol but it looks like I chanced on a good time. This is supposed to be the week of the Cherry Blossom festival, not that cherry trees excite me particularly more than, say, potatoes. I've never been to a potato blossom festival either, unless you count that sack that's been in my closet for a month.