journey Archives - Scooter in the Sticks Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle. Mon, 20 Feb 2017 04:44:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 71084491 My Favorite Road Close to Home https://scooterinthesticks.com/2017/02/my-favorite-road-close-to-home/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2017/02/my-favorite-road-close-to-home/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2017 05:05:14 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=7211 Gateway Road My favorite road begins one mile from my front door — Brush Valley Road.  Whenever I need to unwind with a short ride it’s generally my first choice. It’s a lightly traveled secondary road the winds through rural Pennsylvania; past horse farms and dairy farms, through villages and woodlots and all the time […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2017/02/my-favorite-road-close-to-home/feed/ 15 7211 Road View https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/02/road-view/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/02/road-view/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2016 05:10:00 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6058 Life on the Road I remember Idaho Street and summers picking at tar strips in the concrete streets where I grew up.  Bicycle riding and baseball games took place there along with hopscotch and squirt gun fights.  Even before my second birthday I had found another world on the road. Road Study Nearly sixty years […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/02/road-view/feed/ 5 6058 The Best Things in Life are Free https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/02/best-things-life-free/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/02/best-things-life-free/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2016 05:36:55 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=5906 The best things in life are free goes the old song. Sleep, laughter, love, friends and good memories — examples of the things money can’t buy. Good Memories Of all my rides and Vespa meanderings, the picture of the scooter on a winding road near Hyner View State Park, not far from Renovo, Pennsylvania, on my […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/02/best-things-life-free/feed/ 11 5906 Perpetual Journey https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/01/perpetual-journey/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/01/perpetual-journey/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2016 07:46:58 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=5699 “I tramp a perpetual journey.” ― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself If I’m on a perpetual journey there’s always a cup of tea along the way.  My life is paved with simple pleasures.  As the road winds through field and forest the sounds, sights and smells spark joy and make the journey tolerable in foul […]

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