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Could we see the end of suburbia?

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

With $5-a-gallon gas, living in a bedroom community may not be so cheap after all. Unless, of course, your drive over Afton Mountain happens on a Vespa. - Op-Ed column, The Augusta Free Press, 03/20/06Could predictions from The End of…

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Here I am…

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

It feels a little weird to be over here posting while Neil is out of town, vacationing in London - no doubt seeking out peeks of Reese Witherspoon on her Vespa GTS (her character must make a lot of tips…

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Springtime means change is in the air

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

It has been quiet here of late. I recently started a new job which has occupied my attention for a bit, and Jonathan became a father and moved across country! But another more important reason for the quiet: I have…

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Goodbye, Vespaquest - Hello, Vespaway

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

We’re shaking things up here a bit in the Vespa blogging universe. The whole Vespa blog thing started back in June, 2005 as an experiment with customer evangelists writing two blogs just for the fun of writing about Vespas….

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Goodbye, Vespaquest - Hello, Vespaway

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

We’re shaking things up here a bit in the Vespa blogging universe. The whole Vespa blog thing started back in June, 2005 as an experiment with customer evangelists writing two blogs just for the fun of writing about Vespas. To…

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Arctic Cat & Vespa - good for the corporations, but good for dealers and customers?

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

It’s not often that I post the same content on both Vespaquest and girlbike.com/scooters, but this is something I hope that not only readers read, but the Vespa folks, too.Yesterday the Associated Press had a story making the rounds called…

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Arctic Cat & Vespa - good for the corporations, but good for dealers and customers?

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

It’s not often that I post the same content on both Vespaquest and girlbike.com/scooters, but this is something I hope that not only readers read, but the Vespa folks, too.Yesterday the Associated Press had a story making the rounds called…

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Italians make solar powered “scooter”

Monday, March 6th, 2006

I guess when you get tired of riding Vespas in Rome, you can unfold one of these neat thing:Sun-powered traffic-beater can be packed away like a bag (ANSA) Rome, March 3 - A group of young Italians has come…

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visiting Vespa Seattle

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

I was busy working Flashforward in Seattle almost from the second I arrived last week, but the day before I flew home I made a pilgrimage to Vespa Seattle down on Denny Way. Here’s a pic my friend Dominique took…

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visiting Vespa Seattle

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

I was busy working Flashforward in Seattle almost from the second I arrived last week, but the day before I flew home I made a pilgrimage to Vespa Seattle down on Denny Way. Here’s a pic my friend Dominique took…

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