Anyone up for Napa Valley?

Susie and I subscribe to the NY Times on the weekend.  It’s a magnificent newspaper with great writing, and they carry interesting stories (far more so than the LA Times, in my opinion).  While I was enjoying my morning coffee and a tasty sun-dried-tomato-and-mushroom omelet, I found that today was no exception.  The NY Times travel section had a three-page story about touring Italy’s Collio wine region, enjoying the vineyards, sampling the vino, and doing it all on little yellow 125cc Vespas.  Hey, we’re not in Italy with our California Scooters just yet, so they are making do with the little Italian wasps (that’s what “Vespa” means in Italian).

A NY Times photo accompanying its story on a Vespa tour of Italy's Collio wine country

The story and its accompanying artwork are great, and the fact that it appeared today is more than interesting.   Like a good friend of mine says, there are no coincidences.  As it turns out, Steve and I were just talking about organizing a Napa Valley tour for our California Scooter riders a couple of nights ago.  Napa Valley is our wine country, and our wines are as good or better than any in the world.  That story in the NY Times was there for a reason (I don’t think it was just a coincidence), and I’m taking it as a call to action:  How about a 2-day California Scooter Napa Valley wine country tour?

It’s up to you guys this time…we’ve got quite a few CSC motorcycles running around California now, so if you’re interested in having us organize something like this, just let us know. I’m thinking maybe in late August or early September, not more than 50 or 60 miles each day, and doing it on a Saturday and Sunday.  It will be a BYOB event (that’s “bring your own bike”), but we’ll organize it and make it easy for any of our riders who want to join us.

Just let me know, folks!