Mar 05 2008
Episode 51 - John and Bimbo talk about Manila Scooting
SHOWNOTES: I hope you got a chance to listen to last week’s episode. Vespa travel author Peter Moore and I spoke about traveling, scooters and the process of writing, If you missed it I highly recommend that you go back and listen. Once again, this week I have some old friends back. I spoke with both Bimbo Isidro and John Rana, Vespa bloggers from the Philippines. The conference type call was a fun opportunity to catch up with both Bimbo and John and talk about what has been happening on a totally different front in the scooting world.
I can tell from the traffic reports that we have more and more fans joining us from Europe and even south America. It seems that my recent reports and mechanical problems with my little Vietnamese resto has plucked a few heart strings. As you might expect, I have gotten the expected, “southeast Asian resto imports are crap” emails, but most of you have been quite nice about all of it.
Like many of you, I have a rather extensive web of Internet friends from around the world. I have connected with most of these people since having started my blog and podcast. The Internet makes it easy to keep in touch and I must admit, I like the idea that I can instant message or chat, without having to plan Two of the most unlikely friends I have made are half way around the world in Manila. Both are very involved in the Vespa Club of the Philippines. Many thanks to my Pinoy friends who spent time talking about their scooter scene. Get over to see their websites, Who Rides a Vespa and Vespinoy. I should also remind you that Bimbo also runs Motorcycle Philippines forum with more than 64 thousand registered members. Now those are some big numbers.
Harvey in Ottawa wrote me to suggest that I send the SCTRCST t-shirt he had won to Paula in Denver Colorado. Now that name might not mean anything to you, but those of you who live in Colorado or follow the blog world might have heard that Paula was riding her Buddy scooter when she was hit and seriously injured, just a few weeks ago. Harvey was hoping to win the Ipod and was planning on sending it to her. He had been reading about her on the Scooter Relief website. The group has raised thousands of dollars to with the help of the national scooter community, clubs, individuals and shops and have distributed these funds to all Katrina survivors and victims of scooter accidents and some facing serious illness. You can find out more about Paula and others by going over to the website.
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