Sunday was the Scooters4Hooters charity ride for breast cancer awareness. This is the first year we’ve participated. I overheard someone say there were 158 scooters registered.

It started at Wall Street Plaza in downtown Orlando, meandered through College Park, Winter Park, Baldwin Park, Thornton Park, and back through downtown Orlando during the ninety-minute ride.

Obviously that’s my red Met and my husband’s silver Ruckus at the start, waiting to begin.

I love my scooter… and my new helmet pig tails! My pig tails were a big hit! Lots and lots of people commented on them, or pointed and giggled, as well they should.

Finally, people started mounting their rides…

and the motorcycle police escorts took off, blocking intersections for us so we never had to stop during the ride (which was actually exhausting and made our butts ache). (sherlock took the sheriff pic)

I didn’t take many pictures during the ride as it’s terribly difficult to ride and take pictures at the same time, since the accelerator is your right hand, and the cameras are all designed for right hands, too. But that one was just after the start, traveling up Robinson toward Lake Ivanhoe, where we veered left under I4 toward College Park.

And this was on Orange Avenue, back in downtown Orlando, and was a brilliant holding my camera over my head pointing behind me with my left hand while trying not to crash since I was clearly distracted! I didn’t crop it well, or it’d be easier for you to see that silver scooter wearing a bright pink bra for the occasion!

After the race, we wandered around the festival for a few minutes, where we encountered Awareness Man. Oh my! It takes a very secure person to wear pink spandex with those boots!

It was a great ride! I’m so glad we did this and look forward to the next group ride.

That’s me! With red pigtails in the wind!

Plenty of pics posted up on this Orlando Scooter Society forum. I’m in some of them!

To the woman in the purple PT Cruiser that lives in the Bryn Mawr subdivision: You, ma’am, are a jackass.

I have been trying off and on to import my blogger blog over here, since WP swears it will import my blog and comments. I have repeatedly failed at this task. So, I’ll just go ahead and copy my posts over, and then maybe copy the very few comments later. Just so I can have all my inane rambling over here and update my paid blogging listings so I can start earning a little more dough over here.

UPDATED: is anyone else able to access things once they spill over to a second page? I keep getting not found messages.