Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle.
Kraken’s Garage and Adventure Livestream
This Friday, July 7th at 6 PM EST, I’ll be talking with Eric, creator of the YouTube channel “Kraken’s Garage and Adventures.” We’ll be talking about riding scooters and motorcycles, creating content for a YouTube channel, getting older, and whatever questions you might ask during the Livestream.
So if you have a chance to stop by please do.
Hope to see some of you online Friday night!
Last spring I made a handful of YouTube videos and while fun to make, they were more difficult than they needed to be because I was fiddling with a lot of old cameras. So I decided to replace everything with GoPro Hero 8 Black cameras and see if there was an improvement in the technical hurdles.
The short answer — much easier to produce a video with these more “modern” action cameras. And the stabilization is light years ahead of what I was using before.
I’m not sure where I’ll go exactly with video, but it is a lot of fun. I think I need a break from writing blog posts so I can work on my book!
Let me know what you think about this video and the idea of more riding videos.
The 10th video I’ve produced for Scooter in the Sticks.
I’ve decided to continue experimenting with this media. And of course, continue to post photographs and text from riding experiences.
For this entry, I was interested in how short I could construct something that still had meaning.
The Vespa haiku text:
My silver machine
Morning fog softly whispers
I continue on
Over and over I’m reminded of the effect riding a scooter or motorcycle has had in my life. They have a peculiar power to make it possible to shed dread and angst.
I don’t try to understand. I accept it as true.
This Vespa video is a feeble attempt to capture the experience.
Not everyone has the interest or opportunity to ride across a continent. Or any number of other adventures possible on a scooter or motorcycle for that matter. Time, expense, circumstance, or lack of interest can effectively remove such rides from the realm of the possible. Despite such limitations, you can have a great time on ordinary rides.
I’ve found that the experiences I once considered essential items on an ever lengthening bucket list were, for me, just a distorted version of consuming and buying in the belief that happiness and fulfillment lay that way.
A recent ride through familiar places reminded me of how little is necessary for me to have an adventure.
This is my eighth VLOG posting of the ten I planned to do before evaluating if there is any reason to continue. They remain interesting puzzles to solve but I fear my lack of verbal tendencies may make them difficult to continue to produce.
Despite those concerns, I continue to experiment and explore what might be possible.