Bob and Buddy meet Ground Control (and Lauren the waitress) at the mouth of the Holland Tunnel — Jersey City, NJ
July 13th - Having commuted to and from Philly yesterday on the Lincoln Highway, we allowed ourselves to circumvent the city and grab a detour to New Hope, PA for brunch — another last-day indulgence. We found pleasant, uncrowded, country roads and fewer people in the streets of New Hope than would be typical for this time of year. Our waitress told us there were indeed fewer "shopping bags" walking the streets. We‘ve found the economic pinch to be pervasive across the Lincoln Highway.
Continue reading ‘Day 31 Ride Report: Exton, PA to Jersey City, NJ’
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Join Buddy & Bob’s friends, family, fellow two and three wheeled scooterists, members of the press, and everyone from Piaggio HQ North America and their geoblog team to welcome our intrepid Lincoln Highway riders to the finish line at:
The Eastern Terminus of The Lincoln Highway
Times Square, New York City
The Northwest Corner
42nd Street & Broadway
1030hr ET
Buddy and Bob will display their Piaggio MP3’s until approximately 1130hr, when they will leave for a well deserved lunch at the vaunted Bond 45, so if you want to see Marcello and Sophia before they enter the Piaggio museum, don’t be late.
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…and spend two nights in Exton so as to take the day and visit downtown Philly. More to follow in their Day 30 Road Report tomorrow…
Day 27 - Pittsburgh, PA to East Schellsburg, PA
You know it’s a media day when Bob shows up to breakfast in his very best wash and wear shirt. There I was in my ragged polyester T-shirt, left to rely solely on my wits to squeeze by. My real edge was that all important one-year difference in our age.
Continue reading ‘Day 27 Road Report: Pittsburgh to East Schellsburg, PA’
Buddy & Bob’s celebration of the 4th of July will be a little more adventurous than the one at Piaggio Ground Control. Our riders are at this very moment eastbound on their MP3s, heading toward Chicago. More to follow…
Click to download Piaggio MP3 Google Earth RideMap 1
As of 1500hr ET, Piaggio Ground Control has made public the Piaggio MP3 Lincoln HIghway Google Earth RideMap (.98b), comprising data, routing and images collected from Buddy & Bob from Day 1 through midnight of last night - a total of two weeks progress deeply embedded in a KML cross-linked back to the Road Reports posted daily here.
If you like the Google DayMaps posted here daily, if you want to see in even greater detail Buddy & Bob’s Herculean efforts to navigate their MP3’s down the ever-elusive Lincoln Highway, then you’re going to love our Google Earth RideMaps. You will have to download Google Earth - don’t worry, it’s free - and we will be posting easy directions as the countdown proceeds this afternoon.
In the meantime, if you want a refresher on using our Google Maps DayMaps, here’s our original post from Day 1 of our Riders’ adventure.
Piaggio Ground Control out.
TWO full Google Map Maps are now live:
1) No Age Limit: The Piaggio MP3 Lincoln Highway Ride 2008 Progress Map
2) No Age Limit: The Piaggio MP3 Lincoln Highway Ride 2008 Photo Map
The Progress Map - updated several times per day - displays routing, lunch & gas stops, and Buddy & Bob’s location through a combination of road reports and GPS data from the TomTom unit mounted on their Piaggio MP3s.
The Photo Map - updated once per day - displays the precise location at which Buddy & Bob have taken so many amazing pictures, also viewable in the Gallery section.
Enjoy!
