Take a friend on a trip for company...NAAAAH! Then the day that I took a friend along on a 1-day outing... it was his suggestion that we do this day out, and share the costs, coz he rarely has opportunity to get away. He works on 2 jobs. It was a pitiful disaster...all he could talk about was his bad luck with his female friend(s) who seemed to be "taking him for a ride". Anyway we started off the day badly coz he was 1 hour late in getting to the car-rental office. Then the car arrived; it was filthy with mud and the heavy rain was falling, so we used the rain to quickly wash the car. And they gave us a big gasguzzler instead of the small manual car we arranged, which means buy more gasoline and have a cheap lunch.... Read the rest of this blog »

*** Previous blog entries: Going downgrade...and smaller Leap year 2000...dismal; Leap year 2004...fantastic! 1/2 an ear, half a story From luxury cars to 50cc scooters, Pt. 5 Man from India and Louis the Scooterer...touring around Israel Ole River Jordan... Rolling along, under many bridges Luxury cars to scooters, Pt. 4 Lancia and other junk An unplanned trip...Avihayl to Zichron Ya'akov Luxury cars to scooters, 2: Mostly Lancias Ordinary, fantastic 1 night trip...North From luxury cars to a 50cc scooter Sometimes I'm late, sometimes I act Testing testing 1, 2, 3... Test the new knee Bad female drivers still wanna kill me! Why do bad drivers want to kill me? Traveling? Need to fill 'er up At the end of the road... is another road To Jerusalem by train My first long trip; My first serious lessons I'm NOT singing in the rain Travels in the rain Mt. Hermon ski site - a contrast of visits Kisra - a heartwarming story Jan Smuts' kibbutz connection Scooting to a winery - in 2 different countries Old new land Garbage everywhere What can I say about Masada? Mitzpe Ramon - What? Where? How? Kvish 6 I don't need London, NY, or the world Flash Flood: I looked for one and I found one A typical day of unplanned scootering around Israel Oh, what beautiful gardens The one and only - Tzfat (with several spellings) Playing with numbers

BlogCentral: Louis the Scooterer

Scooter-borne traveler muses over his Israel-wide adventures and encounters.