Scooting with Dru

For almost two years now, I have participated in the online forums for Scootlanta which is the single largest group of Atlanta area scooter owners and riders.  Though the Scootlanta community is made up of members of several local clubs, the board is, in many ways, secondary to the weekly meet up.  Unfortunately, the meet up is Wednesday evenings, and it is in town, as in well into the city of Atlanta.  

For those that don't know Atlanta well, it is the very definition of 'Urban Sprawl'.  I live in the 'Metro Atlanta Area' but it's 30 miles by highway to the center of Atlanta, and that 30 miles is generally a 60 minute drive. Using surface streets that's a 40 mile drive that take 90 minutes.  To give some perspective, the entire state of Rhode Island would fit in the Atlanta Metro Area counties.  

Well, last night, I decided to head in town to join them at the Thinking Man Tavern.  They were meeting up at 8-8:30 so I left the house at around 6:50 to head in town.  I used a mix of highway and surface streets to get there, and it took about 90 minutes.  For what it's worth, I can get to Chattanooga, TN in 140 minutes :(.  When I rolled in, there were probably a good 30 bikes already there (yes, mine was the only large displacement 'scooter' attending), in addition there was a vintage Fiat 500 (scary, my scooter has the same displacement as that car), and a brand new (as in picked up an couple of hours prior) Smart forTwo. 

Sorry, no pictures as my camera battery was toast.

Hung around until about 10:15 and then rolled out to get home.  Got to put alot of faces with names, and meet some new folks.  It really turned out to be an excellent evening and thanks need to go to Disastrid for pulling together a larger than normal event for the evening. as well as the folks from the Thinking Man for putting up with the crowd :-).