Nyack Street Fair, July 19th 2009

I just sent the paperwork in to rent a booth for the Nyack Street fair. We will be showing off the Vespa and Piaggio line to anyone who will listen. Look forward to meeting our customers, old and new. The fair is arts and crafts; I have never been to it myself so can't make any recommendations but I understand there are food stalls and Nyack is a cool town so it should be an enjoyable day out. I think the hours are 10am to 5pm.

Where's my canoe? I just can't believe all the rain!! 29 years ago my wife Lisa moved away from Seattle because she hated the weather. If it keeps up like this she'll be moving out of NY next!

It's even started to affect business and things have been sort of quiet around Metro Scooter recently. Maybe our new TV campaign will fix that? Hmmm, we'll see.

Mid June Power Trip.....

I had to take a trip to England over the weekend. Flying out Friday night I drove up to Northern England on Saturday morning. It is just days away from the June 21st equinox and at midnight I found myself on the top of the Yorkshire moors taking photographs. Right now it never really gets dark at that latitude.

Sunday saw me blasting south to Sussex in 'the fastest car in the world' (a rental) and took care of more business Monday morning, then drove to Heathrow for an afternoon flight home to NYC, just in time for dinner with my wife Lisa. Strangely enough I'm not tired at all. No jet lag. Maybe it's the Red Bull? Whatever. Anyway, what is even more amazing is that the trip was to hook up with my Brother and Sister to scatter our Mothers ashes and I actually enjoyed the trip!! I was expecting to feel miserable, ache at the recent loss and struggle with emotions as people are prone to do at such events. The reality was quite different and the feeling of family was as strong now as ever. Such a relief.

When I finally made it back to the store today I was met by an infestation of catterpillars!! They were everywhere, crawling uo the walls. 20 minutes with the vacuum cleaner put things back to normal but I still don't know where they are coming from.

Just a fad?

I'm dipping my toe into the wide world of blogging for the very first time. Yeah, I know, I'm a bit like 'Urban Amish' leaving it so long but if they could just figure out how to stretch a day to 25 hours it would have happened sooner.

Thanks to 'Tone' my web master for suggesting I get more into the blog thing; it means I can now keep you all up to speed on what's going on here at Metro Scooter.

BIG NEWS yesterday!! The Sachs Madass 125's are finally on their way. We will be getting just four and one is already pre-sold. Call us to secure yours. $500 deposit required. They arrive in early July.

I'll try to steer away from such shameless self promotion of our business going forwards but once in a while such news will creep into this blog.