Tuesday, March 2, 2010

2010 High Rollers Las Vegas Scooter Rally

 Hello all,

Well, after 1290 miles round trip towing a trailer and close to 220 miles on the scooter, I have finally edited some video together and come up with a halfway decent video of the High Rollers Rally.


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I put the scoot on the trailer, and drove to Santa Clara to pick up Liz who was at a meeting.  From there, we drove Pacheco Pass (from Gilroy) which was absolutely beautiful - and hit Route 5.  From there, we drove south to Buttonwillow and cut over to Bakersfield.  And then hooked up with Route 58, then Route 15 into Las Vegas.

In between Mojave and Barstow, we stopped in a little town called Boron and ate at Domingo's Mexican Restaurant.  It is the place where all US astronauts have their 1st meal after landing at Edwards AFB from their trip in space.

The owner, Domingo Gutierrez, was a personable, very kind man who showed us all of the things the astronauts brought him from their space flights.  The food was delicious, and Liz's margarita was HUGE.
Nothing going on in Boron, except that it is the home to the world's largest open pit mine, which just happens to be the largest Borax mine in the world...  Population is 2900 people.  Check it out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron,_California


I was 'knighted' into the Royal Bastards Scooter Club under the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign.  It's a group of people who love getting together and riding scoots.  People from different states, of all ages and backgrounds.  Pretty cool if you ask me.




I got to meet some great people and see some awesome scoots.  My favorite was a mock up of the Italian Army Bazooka Vespa, but in this case it had a PVC potato gun on it.  The dude even raced it wearing a suit on dirt against another Vespa.  He did not need to use the potato cannon though.


We rode 3 rides, one to Lake Las Vegas, the other one through the little hamlet of Summerlin, and then one to Red Rock Canyon, which was my favorite.  It was beautiful.  I always look down from the cockpit when I fly into Vegas at these blood red rocks and say "I'd like to go there."  Well, I did and it was awesome!