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Two Vespa Scooters

Scooter in the Sticks — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 06:16:05 +0000

Grayness and the Landscape It was one of those days when the light and atmosphere changed minute by minute. And to make things even more unpredictable I was riding for the first time with fellow Vespa rider, Andy Heckathorne. Two Vespa scooters on the road. Riding with another person, especially for the first time, is […]

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Thinking About Riders

Scooter in the Sticks — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 04:10:01 +0000

People You Meet on the Road Riders are unique individuals. They may ride the same scooter or motorcycle, or dress according to a code or style, but when you look closely, they’re different in small ways, and big. Thinking about riders I’ve known, I’ve not met two who are the same. Recently I had the […]

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Take a Ride

Scooter in the Sticks — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 06:51:07 +0000

The Secret Garage I can’t be sure if my friend Paul refers to this place as his garage, or his secret garage. Either way, there’s always a bit of mystery here each time I visit. We were going to take a ride a couple weeks ago to breakfast somewhere, the usual dubious plan that’s driven […]

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No Schedule

Scooter in the Sticks — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 04:05:00 +0000

Simplicity This past Friday at 5pm my intent to retire from Penn State became irrevocable. At the end of June I’ll step on to a path for the next adventure. One of the siren songs of this new life is possibility of having no schedule to live by. I can’t comprehend what that might be […]

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Alaskan Rider in the Sticks

Scooter in the Sticks — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:03:18 +0000

Richard Machida (motoblogger and rider) and his wife Bridget put aside -18F temperatures in Alaska to make there way to the sticks to say hello. I have to apologize to Bridget for not paying closer attention to the inherent wide angle distortion when making this photograph and trying to get them and the tower at […]

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Nature of Friendship

Scooter in the Sticks — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 05:10:43 +0000

Photography Bonds My friends Gordon and Paul at Saint’s Cafe looking a photographs — one of the common bonds among us. Paul I met at a large format photography workshop he was teaching over 20 years ago, and Gordon in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts at Penn State nearly 10 years […]

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