In June 2008, Becky and Lauren went on a short excursion to
Catalina Island not necessarily knowing a ton about it. We knew it was very small, a little historic, and generally relaxing, but we knew little of what was in store for us. We took a boat over from Long Beach, got into town and settled, rented a bike and started exploring. We quickly realized how small the little town of Avalon is and noticed there were very very few cars crowing the streets, but instead mostly golf carts and low and behold, scoots. Apparently Avalon controls the size and number of vehicles by requiring a permit for all forms of transportation and limiting the number of cars, thus forcing people to ride around on golf carts and scoots or other modes of transportation. Note "forcing" is used extremely lightly here. Do you really need to pull
someones leg to Live the Dream on a daily basis on their small homeland of an island? Homey don't play that! Seeing a scoot on the streets of 805 is exciting enough to lose control of the wheel, but seeing them at every corner and parked on every street in Catalina was truly heavenly. We obviously documented, making it our mission to capture each and every scoot that we saw, including a
Rascal. We had some mixed reactions. A large man on a Ruckus loved that two girls on a tandem bicycle were checking him out. Even when he realized that we were solely interested in his scoot, he loved and appreciated our enthusiasm.
Opposite end of the spectrum was the lovely and elderly owner of the Red Elite with the army sticker on his.....well, hm, I suppose on a scoot it's technically the windshield.
We tried documenting him in action, but didn't want his scowl in the frame. Later in the day we saw it parked on the street and snuck in a shot. Click here
(LTD in Catalina) and enjoy the variety; truly a different scoot for every personality type.
LTD.
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