change Archives - Scooter in the Sticks Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle. Sat, 02 Jan 2016 03:27:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 71084491 Meet Yourself on the Road https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/01/meet-yourself-on-the-road/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/01/meet-yourself-on-the-road/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2016 03:27:12 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=5684 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — a passage from Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do not go gentle into that good night”. If you spend much time alone on the road your mind will wander into […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/01/meet-yourself-on-the-road/feed/ 18 5684 Craving Experience https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/10/craving-experience/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/10/craving-experience/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2015 05:07:17 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=5370 It’s been over a week since I’ve ridden the Vespa GTS scooter.  I miss the feeling of flying, the fluid ease of moving along the road, the fragrance of autumn leaves and the piercing glare of the hot setting sun.  Riding fires my spirit and imagination.  It’s a drug that has me craving experience and I […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/10/craving-experience/feed/ 26 5370 Little Pink Pill https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/10/little-pink-pill/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/10/little-pink-pill/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2015 05:58:07 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=5309 The ride to work today was a frozen, shivering, torturous experience despite being clad in my winter riding gear.  The worst part was it was only 50 degrees outside.  Fahrenheit. At work it was suggested I just needed to acclimate to the colder days.  50F — seriously?  This is almost summer weather.  It was worse […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/10/little-pink-pill/feed/ 9 5309 Explorers of Mortality https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/05/explorers-of-mortality/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/05/explorers-of-mortality/#comments Thu, 21 May 2015 08:13:39 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4726 How many apples have I eaten in this life?  I remember climbing a neighbors tree at nine with pocket knife and sampling slivers of green apples in the summer heat.  Or biting into crisp Red Delicious apples fresh from the branch in Adams County orchards.  Looking at an apple, a more regular component now of […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/05/explorers-of-mortality/feed/ 28 4726 Watching Clouds https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/10/watching-clouds/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/10/watching-clouds/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:27:17 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4136 The change in light and leaf vibrate in bone and marrow as the dance between earth and sun moves from summer to autumn.  An evening laying in the grass on a hill, watching the sun drop towards the horizon, I could watch the clouds swell and dissolve at the end of the day. Watching clouds […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2014/10/watching-clouds/feed/ 10 4136 Change the Time, Change the Tires, Just Change… https://scooterinthesticks.com/2013/11/change-time-change-tires-just-change/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2013/11/change-time-change-tires-just-change/#comments Mon, 04 Nov 2013 03:11:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=86 The clock changed this morning with the departure of Daylight Savings Time meaning an extra hour of sleep and it wasn’t dark when I got up. With more and more mornings showing the temperature in the 30s — Fahrenheit — a change of tires isn’t far off now.  Mounting the Heidenau K66 LT Snow Tex […]

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