I AM a total scooter lover!

So you’re here at the About Me page… that must mean you want to know more about who’s behind this blog. OK… I’ll tell you!

My name is Kathi, and I’m 52. I don’t think of myself as a middle-aged lady, though, and I don’t act like one.

I’m an outdoors person and since I live in Boise, Idaho, which is in the heart of the Rockies, that’s a good thing. Adding scootering to my “resume” is just one more way to enjoy nature, sunshine and fresh air, in my opinion.

I’m really an Eastern girl, growing up in western New York state and then spending the 30 years after college raising my 2 wonderful daughters in southern New Jersey.

But 2 years ago, my significant other and I relocated West… we’d always wanted to live in the mountains. It’s been a bit of an odyssey… Boise is the 3rd place we’ve lived in 2 years, but we bought a house here, so we’re staying put… at least for a few years. After that, who knows?

Anyway, Boise IS a wonderful place to live if you want to own a scooter. We have a very dry climate and a long warm season. And even in the winter, they hardly get any snow. So that means you have to garage your scooter for only a couple months. If you’re willing to ride in the cold, you could probably ride most of the year.

So, you can probably sense my excitement… I can scooter almost to my heart’s content!

What I Do When I’m NOT Scootin’

When I’m not scootin’, I’m working on the Web. Besides having quite a few of my own websites on a pretty wide variety of topics, I also do freelance writing, mostly on health topics and mostly on the Web. Have you heard of About.com? I’m the asthma guide there. You’ll find me blogging on asthma and allergies at HealthCentral.com too.

But I crave variety and new challenges, so I also am a certified consultant for a web building platform called Site Build It (SBI) from a company called SiteSell. I help people build websites in that capacity.

I love what I do with SBI, so I’ve recently started building an SBI site on scooters for myself. It’s a content site and contains (or will) tons of information on scooters and scootin’. It also is filled with Web 2.0 functionality, so you can post your own scooter reviews over there. This blog is an extension of that site. 

So, I hope you enjoy the site and reading about this non-scooter guru, Kathi MacNaughton, the creative force behind Motor-Scooters-Guide.com and Motor-Scooter-Mama.com!