If you follow my blog, you may remember that I play a sort of game with my scooter… I get a charge out of seeing how much stuff I can haul on it. You see, my scoot IS my main vehicle. My hubby owns a smart car and a pickup truck, but I sold my personal vehicle ( a minivan left over from the days of hauling kids) when I left NJ in 2005. I haven’t owned a car of my own since… but I didn’t really need one, because I work from home. And in 2007, I took ownership of my mom’s Olds, which I used only rarely and ended up giving to my daughter when she fell on some hard times.

So, in the fall of 2007 I got my scooter, more because I fell in love with the idea of riding a scooter than because I needed a vehicle of my own. Still, I do love that I have my own wheels now that are only mine. :)

But I digress… so since I got the scoot, I’ve been using it to go everywhere I need to go, including many of my weekly grocery/pharmacy trips. I love that it is not just a fun mobile; it’s also a functional mobile as well.

Today I did it again… I hauled a week’s worth of groceries on and in my scooter! See?

See what I fit in my scooter?

How much stuff have you fit in/on your scooter?

I’ve been building a site about gas scooters for around 7 months now, with a bit of a break during the winter months, when scooting wasn’t in the forefront of my mind & I was dealing with some family health crises. When I started the site, I had 2 goals:

• To share my passion for scooters with others
• To provide an authoritative resource guide for people thinking of buying motor scooters and also for people who had already bought one but wanted to learn how to get the most out of it

It was a tall order, but I’m having a blast. There are so many things I can write about, but one of the most frequent searches I’m seeing that are bringing people to my site are around licensing in the various states for scooters. So, I already had a page on my site that talked in general about scooter licensing. And it has a link to another scooter site that has links to each state.

But that’s a lot of clicking and I want my site visitors to have as easy a time of it as possible. So I thought it would be helpful to build a page about each state that contained a quick & dirty summary of what’s needed. So far, I’ve built 3 state pages:

• Idaho (my state, so that was easy)
• Alabama
• Indiana

But I still have 47 states to go, so obviously that will take a while for me to research & write all those pages. So, I thought I’d put a request out there to anyone reading this blog… What states should I make a priority to do next? Tell me where you are & what you need to know, and I’ll do my best to accommodate! You can use the comments link above to post your requests.

Also, I wanted to let you know that I’ve started a new community at my scooter website called “The eScooter Club.” Please stop by and check it out. You can build your very own page about you and your scooter, complete with photos. It’s easy & fast… and FREE! Here’s my eScooter Club profile page. Enjoy!