Sweet Ride

Call it hick, call it redneck, call it what you want, but where I come from it was not terribly uncommon for some people to take a snowmobile to school in the winter. Of course we had cars and busses in Vermont (nothing like the ones in Switzerland...ours are yellow and not Mercedes or hydrologic) and classic bicycles, but I wish we had THESE!!!!

Look at these bad ass motorbikes! And they are EVERYWHERE. And it's no wonder. Why, with all of the hills and mountain roads and 10km driveways. I would never have made it to school for the first bell without one either.

The craziest part is that the average age of someone who rides one of these ponies is 13. Kids tend to get their first one around the age of 11 or 12 and have go through a couple until its not cool anymore when they are 14 or 15. Must be nice.....

I remember when we were in high school, my best friend and I would ride her John Deere tractor to the ice cream stand in the summer and some days we wouldn't even go because the tractor took too long. Maybe it's a good thing we didn't have these after all...that may have lead to one too many creamies (Vermont lingo for soft serve ice cream!) when it was borderline unnecessary to begin with.....

Anyway, I think if I move to the top of a hill a Vespa is a possibility, but a motorbike, despite the age (yes, older people--my age--ride them too!) is also a very likely candidate for a play thing. They're pretty sweet aren't they?! And how fun?!