The Story of Wild Woman Donna, Scooter Maniac

Today was another fun and different day here in Ba Haba, Maine. Donna and I rented a pair of little 50cc scooters for the day, and zipped off around Acadia.

I had a Vespa-esque Roketa “Venice” model, and Donna’s was a Qlink Axon50. The Roketa was woefully under-powered — in many cases, it was all I could do to make it up the hills, while Donna powered away as if I was parked! I reminded me of the old VW Bus I drove when I was a kid!

Regardless, the scooters were a blast, and it was fun to run around the park loop road, pulling off to take pictures pretty much whenever we wanted to.

Here’s Donna in the parking lot at the scooter rental place, and, just to prove we actually went somewhere on the things, Donna took the picture at the top of this posting, and of me at one of the park entrances.

While the little machines were fun for tooling around here, it was good to find out exactly what a 50cc bike can — and can’t — do. The decision to move to get the license, and a bigger scooter was definitely a good one.

Anyway, we traveled light, with just our little point-n-shoot cameras, and had a really good time, getting some surprisingly good pictures.

Acadia is full of beautiful places like this. This is a salt-water inlet, and the water is so amazingly clear. You can see the plant-life a good 30 feet out, and probably 10-15 feet deep.

The rest of today’s pictures are on the flickr stream, as usual. In the next day or so, Donna will give her perspective on the whole scooter thing. But, whatever she says, I’ll tell you that she did have fun with it.

Tomorrow, we’re going to try to go on another whale watching run in the hopes of seeing some hump-back whales. A couple of fellows staying here told us a little earlier that they had taken the mid-day trip today, and saw two who put on a spectacular show. We know there’s no guarantee that we’ll see them, but, it’s worth a shot!