This blog began when I road in the 2008 Scooter Cannonball Run, a coast to coast endurance event held every two years. I will be riding again in 2010! New Blog Coming Soon!


Thursday, September 11, 2008

Day 1 actually went off pretty good! No issues with the Vespa, GPS worked flawlessly... had good tunes in my ear, water to drink.

I took lots of video! I'll have to edit through all of it once the trip is over and make a few YouTube Clip Videos.

I had to be picky on when to stop to take photos - or I would have never made it to the hotel tonight. Yosemite was beautiful to ride through. All of the switchbacks up and then back down Mt. Hamilton were alot of fun. Lee Vining is nice, very small, town along a highway, 2 restaurants and a Shell station. It was a really fun day. If the rest of the trip rains, today made it the entire thing worth while.


Random event of the day. I came up on some road construction. The guy said it would be a 25 minute wait for the traffic coming towards us to pass by. Then two girls and a few more scooters pulled up... and decided if they were going to wait - we should all drink. So, we had a half hour of drinking on the side of the road with the stop sign man. Sort of random.

Tomorrow is the longest day of riding. 420 miles to Cedar City, UT. All of it across the desert.

3 comments:

TeaTeaMan said...

Hello Mr. Dave B ! feb31st
It's a beautiful slide show.
Thanks !
TeaTeaMan

TA from PA said...
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TA from PA said...

Leave it to you to start a roadside happy hour, really making the best of a construction delay. Looks like the stop sign man really enjoyed it. Glad to hear you had such a great first day. You are right about Yosemite, it is quite a site. The chapel there is a really nice place for a wedding.... Keep us posted, love all your comments. Stay safe!

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