Ride to the New Jersey shore

[logozone1]

The PennJersey MOB is heading to Toms River (shore town) Lets bust some rust and saddle up. Every ones welcome.
Will meet at 8:00 am Saturday ,March 20th. Back roads with stops for food and BS.
http://www.meetup.com/PennJersey-Scooter-Mob/

[cahoonzie]

Tony:

I saw the forecast and the weather for Saturday is absolutely georgeous for an early "Spring" ride - severe clear (sunny) and 70 degrees in your neck of the woods. You should have a great turnout. This is an exceptional window of opportunity to ride comfortably in March. Could not have lucked out any better weather-wise. The choice of ride area also sounds perfecto!

Best,

Vince

[logozone1]

Hi Vince...Come on out and ride...

[cahoonzie]

Tony:

This is my weekend with the kids. Otherwise, I would definitly make it. Also, want to advise any of your club members who would like to ride up this way i.e. the NJ/PA/NY tristate area out of Port Jervis, NY (poconos - Bear mountain - Hawks Nest etc.) for the day, Either Greg/Margie, Leon or myself would be glad to meet them and act as riding buddy as well as a guide to this fantastic area.

Us local riders in this area would just ask for a post on the potential date, ETA and place.

On another note. You will have absolutely great riding weather on Saturday. Wish I could be there with you folks.

Best and ride safe,

Vince

[cahoonzie]

P.S. Forgot! I AM A MEMBER OF YOUR CLUB!!!! - Getting old I guess - Kidding LOL.

[KaraokeGreg]

Ah, come on Vince you old fart,

Get up at 4:00am and meet me at my house and we'll ride down together, well be there by 8:00.

Just kidding, I understand,wait no I don't, did you say kids? How many do you have? did you have a few since the last time I saw you?

Greg

[cahoonzie]

Greg:

OK but make it 3:30 AM so we can have dunking donuts coffee and a coffee bun before we leave LOL. Actually I have four kids, Vinny age 42, Chris age 40, Kelly age 16 and Justin age 11. At least that is how many kids I know about. Working on some more but can't find a gal willing or able - mostly able LOL.

I kid (no pun intended) a lot but seriously, I love each and every one of these wonderful "individual" kids a bunch equally and cherish the moments we spend together. As much as I enjoy riding, the kids come first.

Great weekend weather-wise. Get your butt up to the Nest!! OR better yet ride with Tony and our fellow Penn-Jersey club folks.

Best,

Vince

[aka Boomer]

Hey Vince and Greg,
Still a bit of debris on the roads up here in the mountains, but, as soon as I get the new sneakers mounted, Kathi and I game for a ride.

Paul

[delburg]

P.S. Forgot! I AM A MEMBER OF YOUR CLUB!!!! - Getting old I guess - Kidding LOL.

What do you By "Geting"??????

[cahoonzie]

Jim:

OK wise guy. Let's see who is getting old. Let's run the hell out of those New Holland Twistites you showed me and Tony last year. We can do it before the Friday night BBQ like we did last year. Grinded my center stand in half but it was worth it. Won't have anything to grind this year because it is now worn to nothing. Let's do it!

Best to you my aging friend,

Vince

[cahoonzie]

Hey Paul and Kathi:

You folks got hit hard in the boonies. As you guys know, I live a few hundred feet from the Delaware river and thought for sure we would be evacuated again for the third time in 5 years! Spent the night before the last storm figuring out how to put floats on the scoot and paddles on the wheels so I could save the scoot and make the Mid Atlantic ride - kidding.

Fortunately we were saved this time. The storm a few years ago put rushing water up over the roofs of my neighbor's homes the low side of town just a few hundred yards away. Scarry. Many had no flood insurance. They essentially lost their life's work in one moment in time. The power company shut off Matamoras's gas and water lines. There were but a handful of us left in Matamoras during that storm. No way to get in or out of "Dodge". We were literally on a "deserted island" smothered by raging river water.

No traffic, no people, no electric, no heat, no stores open. The silence was deafening. For the first time I could hear truck traffic on interstate 84 several miles away because there was no polution of interfering sound of any kind within ear-shot. I could not help but think what it must have been like in my town 150 years ago when there was no clicks of traffic lights, no motors, no hissing of neon store lights, no jets overhead. There were merely occasional bells and whistles of happines not bells and whistles of dywer warning that we fear today. In my mind, there must have been just the sound of people clicking souls on the dirt streets as they walked to work. Others talking and maybe a loud laugh once in a while which was probably heard two blocks away.

Myself and my neighbor across the street and my next door neighbor were about the only people left in town that night and the next day that I know of. I bring this up because people who do not live next to water don't realize how devastation can happen in a moment. Water is the most powerful souce of energy on earth. What seems dormant one moment can be disaster the next. Scarry. Enough said.

On a good note: Anytime you and Kathi want to ride, give me a shout. I am always "ready Freddy" as I am sure Greg and Leon are.

Ride safe my Sullivan County friends,

Vince