photo: Madawaska, Maine
About: I'm Jen. I live a few miles outside of Boston. I do web work for a non-profit during the day.
This web page has been in all sorts of forms since 1994 when I first wrote HTML in emacs on a Unix terminal at BU. Now I prefer BBEdit on my Mac. I'm never quite sure why I'm doing this
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July 22, 2004
Design and Vespas
The other night I went to Design Within Reach for an evening celebrating the design of the Vespa. I rode my scooter there and waited for the Boston Stranglers and others to show up on their scoots. I wanted to see them ride up en masse. When they finally did, blue smoke trailing behind, I smiled and took some photos.
There were Vespas and Lambrettas and twist-n-go scoots like my Vino.
They were raffling off this new Vespa GT, but I don't think I won.
Jason from Boston Scoot spoke a bit, as did Sid from the Stranglers. The 1957 documentary, “Across the Sahara and Down the Niger by Vespa" played against the back wall while the audience ate gellato and italian ice. 
It was nice to walk around Design Within Reach even though I can't afford a single thing there. Such excellent stuff. It was nice riding my scooter home in the cool summer air, I had forgotten how the speedometer glows nicely in the dark.