Restez en sécurité Laurent. Et merci pour le service que vous rendez à la société.
Pour l’instant, ma Vespa et ma moto resteront au garage!

Stay safe Laurent. And thank you for the service you perform for society.
For now, my Vespa and motorcycle will stay in the garage!

Hello Steve,
You’re right, you have to stay at home. Let’s avoid taking unnecessary risks. Me too, I leave the vespa in the garage.
I will stay at home but being a police officer, I have to go to work but I go there by car.
Stay with us. Think of the others …

Laurent.

Don, I appreciate your kind words about the things I post here. They have been and continue to be a labor of love for me. I hope the interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the hiatus on riding opens a door to produce some other sort of content that you’ll find enjoyable or useful.

One day at a time. A fine thought. The challenge is what to do with that day!

I’ve been wandering on foot with a camera for a long, long time. I continue to do so now and like you say it does provide meditative moments. Different than the feelings while riding but just as potent. I hope some warm morning in the future I can push the scooter out into the world once again. Until that time I’ll do some maintenance and pursue other avenues of adventure.

I’ve been enjoying your images from the Keys. Your photography gets better and better all the time. Or maybe as Kim sometimes suggests, the Keys are a place you fall in love with.

Writing has a way of illuminating folly. At least for me.

Be safe David!

Initially, I felt the same way as you did. Riding alone was solitary and the places I ride distant from other people. A perfect activity. But then I started thinking about the what-ifs. What if I ended up in a hospital. And like you say, even though the possibility was remote, I didn’t want to risk a double whammy of injury AND infection.

We’ll all be ok taking a break from riding.

Be well.

Let’s hope things work out for the best and what’s already in place is enough to blunt any medical system disaster.

Hope.

“I have been asking myself that very question Peter.

My rationalization is that I would ride to the downtown core and take video of the state of Toronto’s shutdown and post that as a contribution to encourage Torontonians and other urban folk to stay at home.

So I guess that the sheer hypocrisy of that motivation becomes self-evident as soon as you write it out.

So I guess I’m not riding anytime soon.”