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The Road

Scooter in the Sticks — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 05:05:00 +0000

The Long Road The road is a text, a dense book waiting to be discovered, examined, and evaluated. Riding opens the door to a learning process that promises a rich reward of experience and insight. At least that’s how I see it. I know riders who experience none of these things. Their motorcycle or scooter […]

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Pokemon Go Alternative

Scooter in the Sticks — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 04:21:14 +0000

Pastimes and Obsessions I see people everywhere, in town, on my dog walks and along the road when I’m riding — faces buried in their Smart Phones connected to what I imagine — Pokemon Go. For those living under a rock, Pokemon Go is a new mobile game based on the classic Pokemon game and […]

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Riding Sets You Free

Scooter in the Sticks — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 04:05:05 +0000

It’s as if no one can touch you when you ride… Lure of the Open Road No matter how many times I see the road reach out into the distance I still get a thrill. In this place, I experience a sense of freedom. It keeps me coming back. On the road no one can […]

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On To Breakfast

Scooter in the Sticks — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 05:51:24 +0000

Clear Morning Ride Off early with friend Paul Ruby for a ride on to breakfast. The night before I curled up with my tattered DeLorme Pennsylvania Atlas & Gazetteer pondering routes to various eating establishments. Usually I know where I want to go. Other times I have to explore maps until something surfaces as a […]

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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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Comfort with Ambiguity

Scooter in the Sticks — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:40:40 +0000

Winter Scooter Riding is Confusing (but Beautiful) Comfort with ambiguity caused me to think about riding the Vespa scooter in winter because at best all the elements are in play and in flux conspiring against you. A slight change in weather has great influence over how you ride. The uncertainly clearly leaves you in an […]

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Decisions: The 1988 BMW R100 GS

Scooter in the Sticks — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:43:00 +0000

A couple days after seeing my Consumption Therapy and Moto-Porn post Craig Kissell told me he would be taking a BMW R100 GS on trade and it would have my name on it should I want to buy it. It seemed as if the universe was conspiring to have me become an owner of a […]

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