The Weather Lifted -- Time to Shake a Leg!

Hi all.

The nasty winter weather finally lifted and I said goodbye to the Hudson Valley. Gee whiz it was a long stay, but Mustang64 was cool to hang out with. Just to make up for the bad weather, I rode in a group with Mustang, Alan of Metro Scooters, and Rob of the Rockland Scooter Club from Rhodes Tavern in Sloatsburgh, NY all the way down to Orange, New Jersey to meet Treesoup.




Treesoup says he'll show me all around Philadelphia on his spiffy Lance GSR 150. I hear that Philly's a sweet city with cool museums, baseball fields, historical places... It kinda makes me want to hike up a leg and mark a fire hydrant just thinking about it.

-rover

Connecticut to the Hudson Valley

Well it wasn't long before I had to say bye to Preachp and Connecticut and meet up with Mustang64 who rides around the Hudson Valley like nobody's business. He took me to see some pretty cool places--like Bear Mountain Park, and the Mothball Fleet near the Indian Point nuclear power plant.




This is a sweet cannon I wonder if we can put it on the back of the scoot to ward off tailgaters? Or maybe a trailer.




For those of you who like maps, here's a map showing where I've been so far. It's been updated with my latest travels, but boy. It's fun to look at and see where I've been. Oh, and I almost forgot. I wanted to show you Preachp's bike. It's a Piaggio BV500. Pretty much top of the line when it comes to scooters.

Boston to Connecticut

Hi all, Rover here. That's me on the the scooter. No, not the gentleman in the riding gear -- I'm the cute one in the pleather jacket.

So what was I doing on the back of a scooter? I arrived in Boston November 7th, and Allworld of the Scootdawgs and his buddy Dmitri were kind enough to show me around town.

We visited places like the Bunker Hill Monument, Park St, the Massachutsetts Gate, and their State House of Representatives. And of course there were plenty of fire hydrants around in case I needed a bathroom break. At first I was worried that there might be some unique Bostonian sensibilities relating to the proper use of a fire hydrant that I might offend. However it seems that the accepted protocol for the proper utilization of a fire hydrant is more or less universal.

Lift one leg. Conduct business. Lower said leg.

Allworld also made me this snazzy pleather jacket. I don't know about you, but it's cold up here--even if you're small, fuzzy, and in possession of a large amounts of huggability. The wind-chill is brrrrr. I wonder what Key West is like this time of year. I hear that there are several Scootdawgs in Florida. Maybe I could make it down to the beaches by the time Spring Break gets going.

Anyhow, after a few days or so, it's time to move on to Connecticut!

This is the Story of a Stuffed Animal

One evening, someone thought up the perfect excuse to go ride a scooter.

It involved a stuffed animal, a bunch of awesome scooterists, and a lot of inconvenient geography.

This is the story of that stuffed animal. Welcome to "Roving with Rover" -- the chronicles of one brave Pup as he travels around North America on the backs of humble and not-so-humble scooters , meeting other Dawgs Great and Small.