August 30, 2016
The process of transferring goods from my Deposit house to Hyde Park started slowly with Linda and I bringing the dogs to the new place three weeks ago. We had a delay for a week but this past Saturday we began moving the heavier goods in earnest in my recently acquired Dodge minivan. Some tools, lawn equipment and clothing were packed into the car. In addition I moved my first two wheeler to its new garage. It was a difficult decision but the big scooter was the first bike to make the trip.
Linda drove the minivan as I piloted the scooter on Route 17, I-84 and the Taconic State Parkway. As always, the scooter handled the trip quite nicely and except for the heat of a very bright, hot sun I was fairly comfortable. This coming Saturday we will repeat the exercise, loading more necessary goods to make life easier here. I have to decide which bike will be coming to my house. I'm leaning towards the Honda Rebel. It has saddlebags which will make it a useful addition as both a traveler and grocery getter.
The story about that will be in my next installment
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August 22, 2016
As I reported last week we are finally
in the house in Hyde Park. It's been a very tumultuous week with
workers installing flooring in the Master Bedroom, painting and doing
repair work on the back deck. All the work was completed this past
Friday and we have residual damage to repair ourselves. Paint spots
were left in many obnoxious places including doors, moulding, carpets
and furniture. The people themselves were cordial but their work
ethic left much to be desired.
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August 15, 2016
In my last post I listed all the difficulties we were experiencing in moving into our new home in Hyde Park. I can happily say all has been overcome and I am now sitting in Hyde Park pounding out this prose. Linda was able, with a short but firm e-mail, to seemingly move all the impediments aside and make everyone commit to a closing date for the house. In a less than precise meeting, with some people arriving two hours late, papers were signed, checks distributed and all parties paid. The ve...
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August 1, 2016
As many of you know Linda and I are eventually moving to Hyde Park, just north of Poughkeepsie. I've bought three houses before this, in my life, but this purchase has been troublesome. We found a house in Poughkeepsie but the hidden problems found during the Home Inspection were too numerous to ignore. Another house was pulled off the market after our offer was accepted and this last house looks like it will happen but the paperwork has been overwhelming. Since the Crash of 2008 banks have t...
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July 22, 2016
I declared the other day that if the
scooter gave me any reason to doubt its ability to do a long ride I
would drag one of the Japanese motorcycles out of the bull pen to replace it. It
happened. The hole in the big scooters muffler would not stay fixed
and I needed a reliable ride to make a quick run to Hyde Park last
night. That sounds like an easy trip but it was 150 miles each way. A
three hundred mile ride is starting to test my physical endurance but
the Kawasaki 750 made the trip a li...
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July 18, 2016
As I have mentioned repeatedly in the
last couple of installments I have been riding the big scooter to
Linda's in Danbury. It gets excellent fuel mileage, is fairly
comfortable and I enjoy the challenge of making a Tour on a small
engined scooter. Lately though its Chinese-ness has begun to show
through. As noted last time I heard a shrieking noise on the trip
home and a squirt of oil in the neighborhood of the speedometer drive
seems to be holding that at bay. It rode quite nicely last wee...
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July 12, 2016
I just finished trip number four to Linda's in Danbury and back and have a couple of conclusions. Conclusion one. Chinese scooters are scary. Conclusion two. Japanese motorcycles are a much better bet for a long ride.
I came to the first conclusion this morning when the big scooter did something unexpected. I was on Route 17 in the very middle of nowhere when a shrieking noise came from the front end. I couldn't feel anything vibrating the handlebars but the noise was there. Not wanting to sto...
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June 22, 2016
I'm sitting at Linda's in Connecticut concocting this and the 250cc scooter waits outside for another trip home. In the last week I've done this trip to Danbury once and am half way through another run now. It has been an amazing series of events. The scooter has been both reliable and incredibly fuel efficient. I just checked the mileage for this latest trip and it has delivered an amazing 83 mpg. I always laugh to myself when a Toyota Prius passes me and I say, "Gas Guzzler." The trips have...
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June 3, 2016
Years ago when I bought the big scooter
I had ideas in my head that we would do some serious miles together.
Events since then have conspired to deter that and it settled into
the role of commuter and doctors visit machine. Yesterday it finally
got to break out of those roles as we took a three hundred mile trip
together to Danbury, Connecticut and back. It was a rousing success.
I always knew it was a comfortable scooter but hadn't spent a long
time in its saddle since I picked it up on Lon...
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May 26, 2016
Sorry for the delay in communicating
but I have been so busy lately that writing here fell on the back
burner. I have been searching for a new home in another part of the
State so driving to far off places has been occupying much of my
time. In the last couple of months my cars have been getting their
wheels run off as each trip to Poughkeepsie puts another three
hundred miles on the odometer. I'm not up for a three hundred mile
ride in six or seven hours so the bikes have lain dormant for m...
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If you wish to comment my e-mail address is h1500e@hotmail.com. I'd like to hear anything-good or bad-that anyone would like to say. As they said in college, we're all lifelong learners.
