Motorcycles

Just over 5,000 miles and 3 years since we first got our bikes. We have gone on several long rides around the area including Peru, NY and Schenectady, NY.

WHERE IT ALL STARTED 2021

We were not looking forward to the coming months of April and May. The warmer weather and bright sunshine regrettably marks the end of ski season. We knew that we would be spending more time outdoors around the house, swimming in the pond and hiking the trails but none of those activities have anywhere near the thrill of flying down a steep icy mountain slope at 30 miles per hour with two giant fiberglass boards strapped to your feet for steering with. With skiing we get a rush of several emotions at once. We get to enjoy the vigorous feeling of almost freezing to death mixed with that feeling of jubilation each time you make it down the slope without damaging or breaking anything important all super-charged with going fast the whole time. We knew that we would not get that same experience in the summer and understandably, there were some somber faces in our house as we put the skis away for the next 6 months.

Then we went back to the dining room and started looking through Steph’s bucket list and managed to come up with a summer activity that actually does have almost as much excitement as skiing.

Stephanie Learns to Ride a Motorcycle

Ski season is over and I have a sad. What can I do to make Spring and Summer as great as Winter? Learn to ride a motorcycle? YES!

So I got on Ken’s brand new bike. Wasn’t the crash and burn that one might expect. I did drop it but I didn’t die. So, on to class I go!

I finished class today and I should have a brand-new motorcycle endorsement for my driver’s license. If I wasn’t so hard!!!! (said in the whiniest of voices). So I didn’t take the final test. I need to practice more. I do have a permit and miles of VT roads to practice on. Let the fun begin!

July 1, 2021

I passed my test!