Today's scooter ride home qualifies for the 2strokebuzz.com Cold Weather Challenge.
Name: Michael Morrissey
Temperature: 28°F
Distance: 10.3 miles
Location: Portland Oregon
Date: January 26, 2009
Time: 6:30 PM to 7:40 PM
Scooter: 1979 Vespa P150
Your CWC story: I was getting kind of bored with my breadloaf bus, so today I rode the rickety yet trusty old Vespa to work. I wasn’t even thinking it would be cold, but this evening was really chilly. I work in deep SE portland, and live in NE Portland. I went about 4 and a half miles out of my way on the ride home to run in and get some hippy food at New Seasons at 33rd and Alberta. There was ice and some snow outside still. I saw a red motorcycle at one point also riding, which made me happy. The food was worth the extra distance traveled on the old putt putt.
Route: Deep SE, up 82nd to Fremont, New Seasons at Alberta and 33rd. Back out Killingsworth to my house in NE.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Friday, January 02, 2009
Giorgio Bettinelli
This is the Wikipedia entry for Giorgio Bettinelli, as translated from Italian via Altavista Babelfish:
Giorgio Bettinelli
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George Bettinelli (Cream, 15 May 1955 - China, 16 september 2008) has been a journalist, writer and Italian traveller. Graduated in letters near the university of Rome, it is famous for its long four completed travels to edge of a Vespa. In fact during its permanence in Indonesia, like payment of a series of debits, he comes to it given a Vespa of which he falls in love himself immediately.
Its first travel leaves from Mentana, dov'era resident, in province of Rome, 1992 with Saigon destination, where it will arrive nine months after - March 1993 - having covered 24,000 kilometers. According to part from Anchorage in order to arrive to the Earth of the hard Fire and from 1994 to 1995 along a distance of 36.000 kilometers. The third party joins Melbourne to Capetown, for a total of 52.000 km covered between 1995 and 1996. The last quarter and, called Worldwide Odyssey, is a real turn of the world, hard more than three years, from the October of 1997 to the May of 2001: the departure place is the Earth of the Fire and that one of arrival is the Tasmania. It covers 144,000 km passing for Alaska, the Siberia, entering in Africa through the strait of Gibilterra, and costeggiandola all till Gibuti passing an other time for Capetown, in order then to costeggiare all southern Asia from the Yemen to Indonesia, till the arrival in the last continent, Australia, and to the final destination, the Tasmania. During this last travel George Bettinelli it has been also kidnapped from a group of guerrillas in the Congo, in order then to be released after little time, derubato of all but with the life it saves. By now the expert pilot-traveller has decided not to stop itself, and therefore has carried out an other travel in the only great country from up to now not covered he: the China (where then it has been moved and married), to which the escape of its last book is continuation China in Vespa.
George Bettinelli is died in China, 16 september 2008, to the age of 53 years for an unexpected malore. There he lived from four years, on the rivers of the Mekong, with its Yapei wife. He was preparing an other book, this time on Tibet.
Bibliography [modification]
* In Vespa. From Rome to Saigon (Feltrinelli 1997), that it narrates the first travel
* In Vespa beyond the horizon (- Rusconi- 2002), 400 photos intensely lived during the 110,000 km of its first three travels
* Brum Brum. 254,000 kilometers in Vespa (Feltrinelli 2002): the others travels till the rapimento in the Congo
* Rhapsody In Black. In Vespa from Angola to the Yemen (Feltrinelli 2005)
* China in Vespa
Giorgio Bettinelli
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George Bettinelli (Cream, 15 May 1955 - China, 16 september 2008) has been a journalist, writer and Italian traveller. Graduated in letters near the university of Rome, it is famous for its long four completed travels to edge of a Vespa. In fact during its permanence in Indonesia, like payment of a series of debits, he comes to it given a Vespa of which he falls in love himself immediately.
Its first travel leaves from Mentana, dov'era resident, in province of Rome, 1992 with Saigon destination, where it will arrive nine months after - March 1993 - having covered 24,000 kilometers. According to part from Anchorage in order to arrive to the Earth of the hard Fire and from 1994 to 1995 along a distance of 36.000 kilometers. The third party joins Melbourne to Capetown, for a total of 52.000 km covered between 1995 and 1996. The last quarter and, called Worldwide Odyssey, is a real turn of the world, hard more than three years, from the October of 1997 to the May of 2001: the departure place is the Earth of the Fire and that one of arrival is the Tasmania. It covers 144,000 km passing for Alaska, the Siberia, entering in Africa through the strait of Gibilterra, and costeggiandola all till Gibuti passing an other time for Capetown, in order then to costeggiare all southern Asia from the Yemen to Indonesia, till the arrival in the last continent, Australia, and to the final destination, the Tasmania. During this last travel George Bettinelli it has been also kidnapped from a group of guerrillas in the Congo, in order then to be released after little time, derubato of all but with the life it saves. By now the expert pilot-traveller has decided not to stop itself, and therefore has carried out an other travel in the only great country from up to now not covered he: the China (where then it has been moved and married), to which the escape of its last book is continuation China in Vespa.
George Bettinelli is died in China, 16 september 2008, to the age of 53 years for an unexpected malore. There he lived from four years, on the rivers of the Mekong, with its Yapei wife. He was preparing an other book, this time on Tibet.
Bibliography [modification]
* In Vespa. From Rome to Saigon (Feltrinelli 1997), that it narrates the first travel
* In Vespa beyond the horizon (- Rusconi- 2002), 400 photos intensely lived during the 110,000 km of its first three travels
* Brum Brum. 254,000 kilometers in Vespa (Feltrinelli 2002): the others travels till the rapimento in the Congo
* Rhapsody In Black. In Vespa from Angola to the Yemen (Feltrinelli 2005)
* China in Vespa
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