Me
Hi, I’m Eric. Until recently, I owned and operated an independent bookstore in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. It was always my dream to open a bookstore, so I did and not three years later, I found myself ready to move on.
So in January, 2008, I sold my bookstore and a few weeks after that, visited West Virginia for a bit with ideas for Scoot 66 dancing in my head. With years of planning, gallons of inspiration and a heapin’ helpin’ of luck, it’s finally happening
It wasn’t that i didn’t like my job. I did. I just didn’t see it as the right thing for me for the rest of my life. What is the right thing for me for the rest of my life? I have no idea.
But for now, you can follow me along Route 66 and beyond. I hope you get something out of it.
Feel free to drop me a comment, it’s always good to hear from you.
hey eric, good to finally meet you…here is some info for sunday…
“There is a ride this sunday.
Meet @ 10 am Frontier. Park your bike on the South side of Saggeio’s.
Ride leaves @ 11am to the Zoo after ride.”
Frontier is on Central (route 66!) and Stanford i think….right across from the University of New Mexico…
coming from bernallio…ride south and then turn left on central and head towards the mountain…it will be a couple of lights past university
Title: Third Sunday Ride
Date: Sunday May 18, 2008
Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Repeats: This event repeats every month on the third Sunday.
Location: TBA
Notes: Have some breakfast, ride for a few hours, have cocktails later.
i wouldn’t mind riding the short route to the zoo and then riding the longer route to the east mountains…
take care
g
let me know if you get this info please
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I am thinking about a vertical trip from San diego to Vancouver BC. I have a Vespa ET4 (150cc). I would like to avoid highways throughout the trip and I have a couple of questions for you. Can you avoid highways for the entirety of such a trip and what about gas as these scooters dont hold a lot and can they really make it from one station to the next?
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Eric reply on June 11th, 2008 1:08 am:
You should be able to make it from one station to the next. I did US 50 from Sacramento into Utah and really didn’t need extra gas – just remember to fuel up whenever you see a gas station.
And you should be pretty ok going from SD to BC as far as gas goes. But you can always carry extra if you’re worried.
Let me know if you do this and when. Will you be blogging about it or any such thing?
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Hi Eric,
I am from Oklahoma City and I am really enjoying your website. A few months ago I sold my car and bought a Vespa GT200. I have really enjoyed taking a few camping trips, but I would love to take a long trip some day. I think it would be awsome to go with several people that had scooters. Do you know of a scooter website, with people that would like to do something like that?
Philip West
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Eric reply on June 19th, 2008 12:37 pm:
Hey! I had a good time in OKC. And it would be a good town to go car-less. Very cool. I’m envious.
As for the website, you might find someone on modernvespa.com. There’s lots of folks there, most of them are commuters, but there are a few long distance riders.
Eric!
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Just to let you know there was a certified Vespa service center in Orem Ut. It’s at the Barber Brothers dealership on University Ave. and also Vespa Scooters in Salt Lake City.
Also scooterworks.com has parts for a vespa.
Im a basic scooter commuter mine is a Lx150 in excalibur grey.
I love your site and when i decide to upgrade my scooter i’ll definitely will be using your site as a resource.
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Hey Eric
stop by the shop when you are in Portland
Corazzo Design
935 NE Couch St
Portland Or 97232
503.236.6530
Chad, Bradford, Jody et.al.
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Really cool website. I really like the 3/18/08 log entry. we had a camp in inglesby and I even think you took a picture of it in your link to more pics. our camp was the 2nd to last one at the end of inglesby rd. we were right at the turn off to go down to penns creek and park. we spent many weekends up there up until the early 80’s. I remember when the trains used to run on the tracks there until hurricane agnes wiped out the bridge going to poe paddy park. never saw the tunnel on the poe paddy side but we used to walk the tracks to coburn and go through the tunnel to get into town.
David
Ft Lauderdale, FL
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