Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle.
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
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.
On foot with a camera, or just riding my Vespa scooter, my perception of the world around me grows. I see more. Appreciate more. And in the end, find contentment in even the most stressful situations.
I place few requirements on myself during these jaunts and journeys. Slowly traveling, loose plans, and a minimum of tools and technology.
Can you be content on short rides through familiar landscapes or do you require travel to distant places? I suppose what works for one may be a bore for another.
For me, I try to have few expectations of my rides and even fewer for the experience.
I don’t often write about how to ride a scooter. So I won’t start now. Rather I share some of what I experience while riding a Vespa. The thoughts that swirl in my head, concerns for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That sort of thing.
This VLOG entry is a reflection and re-creation of the sort of things that rattle around in this old man’s head — at home and on the road. It’s almost a video about riding a Vespa.
I’m halfway to my goal of ten video entries before I decide if there’s reason to continue.
I’ll be riding a Vespa scooter more and more as I determine it’s safe to do so. I hope each of you finds the right decisions for you and the specific part of the pandemic you find yourself in.
Only four entries into my ten video target to determine if making videos has any utility in my blogging life and I’m behind schedule. My plan was to post every other Monday.
This entry is a quick update on the status of things in my world and a continuing experiment with cameras and microphones as I search for the idea blogging setup for me.
If you like these entries let me know and subscribe in YouTube. I’m not sure why at this point though someone told me it’s important. As I understand it, if I get a million subscribers I can make some money. I think I have to take some of my clothes off though to achieve that number.
Stay safe on the road and in your dealings with the strange new world we’re traveling through now.