Week of March 17th through the 24th.

What wonderful riding weather! Cupcake got to go back and forth to work every day this last week.

She also got to run a very important errand. She went to the Brecksville Bootlegger on Mill Rd.

in Brecksville, to buy a bottle of wine, as a retirement gift

for Pieter deWaal who is retiring from the BMW North America Motorcycle Division.

We wish him well in all his future adventures!

Cupcake decided to sport the french beret for the occasion

88 miles for the week

2012 has arrived!

Cupcake and Cutie Pie have come out of hibernation. While Pam rode her new R1200GS earlier in

the week (just for transportation!), we scooters got to go out for the first "social" trip of 2012.

Being Lent, we decided to look for a fish fry, and ended up at St Joseph's on

Rte. 21 in Brecksville.

Fried walleye, crab cakes, au gratin potatoes and baked sweet potato, cole slaw, applesauce, and jello, were the order of the evening, all for less than $20.00!

Then we got to cart home dessert under our seats. One piece of pumpkin cheese cake and

a piece of blueberry bundt cake. Yum!

Cupcake's odo is reading 1390 miles at the start of the season. Let's see how many miles

she can burn!

Part 4

Cupcake and Cutie Pie decided to celebrate 4th of July by making a journey to Forest City Yacht Club on North Marginal Rd, to have some hot dogs and beer with Dan & Rita Glow.

How to get from Independence to E55th and the shoreway with no freeways?

Easy.

Brecksville Rd. to Schaaf Rd to Jennings Rd., down past Steel Yard Commons, up the big hill, round the round about to W14th north to where it dead ends by the West Side Market. Up over the REALLY BIG Lorain Carnegie Bridge to E9th St, north to N. Marginal Rd, and then east along the shoreway until she got to the Yacht Club.

Cupcake's memories:#1 "Boy the buildings downtown are Really big"

#2When Cupcake saw Lake Erie, she knew that she ahd come to the end of the Earth.(Pam agrees, no going around a Tour of Lake Erie for Cupcake anytime soon!)

Part 3

My goodness, the summer has flown and Cupcake has almost 1200 miles on her, and I have been remiss on writing all the adventures. So I will compile them bit by bit as a recap, and tell you about some of the "cuter" happenings when you ride 50 cc's!

Part 2

106.8 miles on .838 gallons, or 127.45 mpg!

This trip consisted of Cupcake's first longer journey to Howe Meadow on Riverview Rd in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. She went for an evening concert, and liked listening to the cajun music of "Mo MoJo", led by musician Jen Mauer. Then back to Peninsula for dinner at the "Lizard"

Four trips back and forth to work.

Trip to Parmatown for the Rib Fest. Who should we meet but Arp Viiberg on his wife's new  Elite 110 scoote. They parked right up to the entrance (got to love their small frames, you can put them almost anywhere) and Cupcake listened to the blues of Ace Molar.

Cupcake Chronicles

Part 1

For 2011, Pam has decided to go "mini" for part of the riding season.

Hence," Cupcake"

a yellow Honda Metropolitan.

She finally filled up with gas on May 31st

112.9 miles on .94 gallons, or 120.l mpg!

Not too bad for a new engine.

That constituted 8 round trips back and forth to work, a run to Tinkers Creek Tavern,numerous errands around the town of Independence. Stay tuned for further updates!