The "My Ride" Challenge.....

Accepted.

Every day, I scooter out and ride into to my City: Portland.

This is the road that gets me to the bridge.

I know Martha kinda, sorta, expected one shot, but it is difficult to do justice to the road with only one picture.

So here they are....

 Going in to town...

...And Coming Home...

I look forward to seeing what roads other folks travel on...

Thank you, Martha, for the great challenge! 

So, I got this idea...

Why not drive...

Let's make that Scooter

to.......

MONTREAL!

No, I'm Not Crazy.

I mean, it's only 256 miles (411.992 km).  At an average speed of 40mph (64.4 km) it should only take, what? about 6-1/2 hours?

So, what's the big deal?

I can follow a map as well as the next guy

Maybe even better

And, after all, what's the worse that can happen?

I take a wrong turn?

So, I'm going to pack a few things,

Some food,

And set off.

I'm sure it will be an exciting trip, filled with great sights,

So, now the question is:

Does anyone out there know anyone in Montreal that I can say "Hello from..." to??

If so, let me know, because in the not too distant future, it will be

To Infinity....

And Beyond!

Stay Tuned.......

What shall we do for Memorial Day?

Shall we jump into the car

And Zoom

That is, Zoooom

I said, ZOOOOM

To some romantic location?

Or, shall we

Go home

Do some sightseeing,

Eat some food,

Visit the family?

Or, should we hop a ride

To some exotic party,

Crash a wedding,

Join-in on some exotic fun?

Or, shall we hop a boat,

Sail and cook our way to strange and wondrous places,

Where the Sun presents itself eternally new, and eternally the same?

Or should we get smart,

Grab our scooter, AND

Scooter For Fun to some real exotic places,

maybe heading to Canada trying to find that wonderful peace officer who chatted with us for a bit, then mounted up and rode off into the world...

Leaving us wondering, "Who was that

sun-glassed rider?" (anyone knows, let me know),

Or, perhaps we should just jump on and, Scootering along, just camp and ride, camp and ride.....

What would you do?

What did you do?

In Maine, you get three answers to a plea for directions:

Turn Right at the Old Humpty Dumpty Popcorn building;

Turn Left where the old Elm Tree used to be;

You Cha-ent, Gea-year-te, Thya From He ya.

Paying no attention to the above warning, Tom Keene of Scooter by the Sea fame


http://scooterbythesea.blogspot.com/

and I, zoomed off on yet another adventure:  This time Goochs Beach (no apostrophe) in beautiful downtown Kennebunk: a mere 45.4 miles (via the scenic route) south.


As usual, we first fortified ourselves with some good, strong, coffee: this time at The Speckled Axe, on Congress Street, in Portland.
http://portlanddailysun.me/index.php/businessx/local-business/6788-speckled-ax-opens-quietly-with-high-end-coffee

We sat there, under the cool looking, but dim overhead lights

 sipping our brew, while Tom reviewed the route with me.

And then, over the meadow, by the reeds at the shore, we toured...

Over the meadow, where the stream runs blue....

To the land of the lobsters, we rode.

Now, there are - to my mind - certain actions that, when they occur, portend of some historic event.  With Tom, it's fueling up....

...And while I wait, patiently,

I wonder, what this fuel-stop means in the grand scheme of what life is about to send our way, because when Tom fills-up, interesting things always happen.


The answer to that question lays within Tom's version of our trip – which you must read: but the short version is that, despite having rode down here innumerable times, somehow, in some yet to be defined manner, we got lost and rode around, and around one small patch of Arundel township before we finally arrived at the sea: an arrival that Tom was Keene to point out...

The beach is fantastic.  It's a long, long, crescent of fine sand, surrounded by period homes - well maintained and each more graceful than the other,

A great place to spend a day.


Tom, with his ever-keene eye, spotted, and started to photograph, a figure at the far end of the beach, doing a dance in the surf.  Only a true Mainiac (what original Mainers are known as) could see a dance in the wild gyrations that were occurring.  Me, I could only see some person, more brave than of sound mind, reacting to the INTENSE cold that we up here call "Beach Water".  But, undaunted, Tom snapped away.

In the meanwhile, we both examined another scooter that we had parked alongside.

Paying particular attention to the upscale footwear....


As we were admiring the scooter, the owner – and his dog – showed up and proceeded to mount up and scoot away.  The dog nestled within a plastic crate strapped to the back: the owner nestled into his high-fashion footwear....

As we ourselves were getting ready to leave, the "dancing surfer" headed our way, and soon materialized into a very attractive young woman.  Tom, in his most enviable manner, started a conversation with the lady, and before you could say Kellogg's Corn Flakes, the lady is posing for Tom – who is snapping away.


Now, it's not that I'm envious, but the only conversation I can elicit from one as young and attractive as this lady was, is: "May I help you across the street, sir?", or, "Are you lost, sir?"


Be that as it may, the conversation was a perfect ending to yet another perfect day riding with Tom.


For all you out there, who haven't got her-ya yet, what are you waiting for?  Riding with Tom is an adventure you must experience.


Trust me.