Monthly Archive for May, 2004

Niagara 2004

My Niagara 2004 picturesLast week­end, we trav­eled to South­ern Ontario for the Nia­gara Scooter Rally. And, the Cana­di­ans sure know how to throw a party. Check out our pics, and here are some highlights:

  • Our first camp­ing trip in years
  • My grade 9 Eng­lish teacher’s son was there with his crew
  • Another two-​up ride on Presley’s Lam­bretta — and we still couldn’t keep up with the pack
  • First titty-​bar expe­ri­ence with Presley
  • Don’t buy gas in Canada — it’s pricey and will make your scoot sputter
  • Vino Girl(!) got muddy — which was just not right
  • I caught one of these at the raffle — now I can carry a six-​pack on my leg shield

Jason posted in a more timely fash­ion, though I severely ques­tion his asser­tion that “the weather was fairly nice”… I can only imag­ine what pre­vi­ous years were like. We had a light­en­ing show all Sat­ur­day night, and I still have wet boots sit­ting in my car trunk.

Anyway, we’ve got 1 city rally and 1 camp­ing rally under our belts…

Free to Marry

At 12 midnight, same-sex marriages were given to couples at Cambridge City HallThe Bay State is now the first-in-the-nation to grant same-​sex mar­riage licenses to cou­ples, and I am proud to say that Our Fair City was the first – Cam­bridge City Hall at 12 mid­night, May 18, 2004.

A couple of thou­sand people, joined together on the front lawn of City Hall, singing songs, hold­ing sup­port­ive signs (My favorite was “yay!”), and clap­ping as each couple made their way up the stairs, and into the building…

It was really moving. Cheers everybody!

Gotham ’04

gotham.jpgWell, we sur­vived the Gotham rally this past week­end. We met a lot of cool scooter­ists, and enjoyed riding around Man­hat­tan and Brooklyn.

I think we put brought joy and curios­ity (and maybe envy?) to the people of New York — seeing a hun­dred scoot­ers coming through your neigh­bor­hood in a giant pack is not some­thing people see every day. Those kids down in NYC know how to throw a good time. Too bad I didn’t win the bike raffle.

I posted my pics at Scoot.net — check out Jason above. Tonight, I buy my first scooter: a Vespa P-200.