Saturday - October 13, 2007 Scooter Tryout - Take Two

Inset in the main picture for our blog (to the right) you will see Jazzman screaming along at a breaknecking speed of 0 mph in the front yard of our favorite scooter store www.scootercentrale.com in Plainville, CT. If you have any scooter owning desire or fantasy please go see these folks. You will find the most available and willing people who are dedicated to the ultimate in customer service. They have allowed us all of the time and multiples of test drives that we have needed to choose which scooters we will purchase. You will experience great satisfaction working with them.
After Meg's September 25th auto accident that totaled the Rav 4 (she was hit from behind at 45+ mph) we wondered if we should purchase another to take with us on the trip or not. (Of, course, this wondering occurred after we got her to the hospital and several doctors to make sure she was getting the correct treatment for her injuries) What we came up with was to purchase two scooters (Meg has wanted to have a scooter for the last two years to ride around town on) instead of getting another car.
Now, the reason we have been back to the scooter store three times is that there a lot of choices in scooters for a lot of different purposes. We want to be able to park the RV at various campsites or friends houses along the path of our trip and use the scooters for the local traveling and site seeing instead of taking the RV everywhere. Plus we will then get 70 miles per gallon verses 7. (Meg, the mathmetician reminds me that the real equation total is 35 mpg since we are taking two of them. Still more fun then we would have in a car - unless its raining) Oh well, this is an adventure.
We also want to be able to go good/long distances away from our parking locations so we need to have the right size and comfortable scooter to allow us to do that and we also need enough power and stability in case we need to be on the highway. Right now we are looking at the Piaggio MP3 (This is me on the MP3)
We'll let you know what we end up with, next week!!! Caio, till then.