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eric on Dec 10th 2007 Moving, Route 66

How summer travel plans evolve (update)

While my plans for the summer of 2007 crashed in some historic ways, it hasn’t detered me from planning ahead for this upcoming spring/summer/fall.

I’m in the process of selling all three of my scooters and my bus (maybe) and have bought a Vespa GTS250. It is super reliable and can easily carry me wherever I need to be.

And so my schedule seems to be…

Late Feb – Buy Car, Do taxes, etc.

March - Sell bus & scooters. Time in West Virginia, mostly. Last day in Lewisburg Apt., 31st.

April - Pick up scooter, ride to WV on first warm weekend. Small trips here and there when able to. Perhaps an abbreviated version of the southern trip.

May - Start Scoot 66 on the 2nd. It will be a 45 day trip to California and back on my Vespa.

June - On 66 trip till June 14. Recovering after that.

July - 1st – 4th in Gettysburg. Maybe another short trip if insane enough to do so. Make final preparations/find apartment, etc in Wheeling.

Aug - 1st – move in and begin new life. Weird, huh?

So I guess I should explain a few things. Yes, I am buying a car. A new car. Probably a Toyota Yaris. And yes, I am selling the bus. It’s been broken down for three months now. I’m pretty tired of that. Two or three of the trips have been canceled. I don’t have the money to do them and I want to get settled in WV before October.

I am still doing Scoot 66. I’m taking a return route through the northern tier states. Those are the only continental states that I have never been do. After that trip, I’ll have been to all 48 states. Cool, eh?

July is up in the air because I don’t know how beat I’ll be after Scoot 66. I have a feeling I’ll be totally beat to hell and skip Gettysburg and just get ready for the move on Aug 1. I may do a short trip in August depending on things.

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