What 2004 Was Good For

It was so dif­fi­cult to think of good things to men­tion about the past cal­en­dar year, that I decid­ed to skip any year-end roundup.

But, brows­ing through Kim’s pho­to­stream today, I remem­bered one great thing about 2004 — my Scoot­er.

It was a year of ral­lies, mak­ing new friends and rid­ing that Ves­pa hard in 3rd gear (4th gear slips).

Look­ing back at 2004:

• Pres­ley and I on rent­ed Asian scoots in Key West, FL… (sans hel­mets)
• Pres­ley bought her Lam­bret­ta LI125
• Gotham Ral­ly in NYC, our first
• Nia­gara Ral­ly, in Ontario
• The Boston Stran­glers
• And, final­ly, Pres­ley won Best Orig­i­nal Scoot­er at Euro­pean Motor­cy­cle Day