Scooter Diaries

I have a restless heart, a poets soul, an insatiable desire and a wanderers spirit.

Browsing Archive: June, 2009

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Posted by Christopher Burks on Friday, June 12, 2009, In : the trip 
I am writing this chapter with sadness and anger but please know that I still have hope to do this again one day on a bigger and greater level.

Scooter drivers who obey the law beware do not, I repeat do not drive through Hampton FL. Why you may ask? Officer Donaldson badge no.507 is a prick who does not know the law as they are written in the Florida statute from the secretary of state at the end of this I will post a link or copy and past the laws and you tell me if I should have gotten this...
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MY FRIENDS THE HITCHHIKERS

Posted by Christopher Burks on Thursday, June 11, 2009, In : the trip 
Today was a long hot day. Temps that reached 100 F according to the local signs that tell temp and time. I reached a crummy motel in Ocala FL around 5pm today exhausted by the heat and very dehydrated the room started spinning before I called my sister on the phone. She advised me to take a bath but when I went into the bathroom I noticed that no bath tub was to bee seen, shower time. So yes with a nice name like the silver princess motel I knew that I would feel like royalty… note sarcasm....
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ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Posted by Christopher Burks on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, In : the trip 
Yesterday I got to hang out with Jesse almost for the whole day she took me to the everglades and then to a jazz club in downtown Miami. It was probably the most fun I have had while camping out in south Florida. Gators, vultures, turtles and catfish that crossed the road. Its true up until that point I never knew that catfish jumped from pond to pond via flopping across roadways. The Jazz club in Miami was amazing but proved to me how expensive Miami can be.

Today I started my drive north try...
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Lets Drive Again

Posted by Christopher Burks on Monday, June 8, 2009, In : the trip 
I have decided to leave Miami for the time being and take my scooter out east to Boston MA.  So this being my last day here in town I am going to head out and see the everglades with Jesse. Who knows I might even wrestle a gator but I think that at the most ill be swatting mosquitoes off my face. Later tonight ill be going to a jazz club. I might even do laundry for the first time since I have left Michigan. Well I just wanted to give you all a heads up to let you know that I’ll be on the r...
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FOUND: 1 SINGLE ALLEN WRENCH ON US27 IN SOUTH FLORIDA

Posted by Christopher Burks on Saturday, June 6, 2009, In : the trip 
It has been almost a week from my last update due to my lack of internet along with the uncomfortable heat that has caused me to be unable to find a comfortable location to write. So please bare with me this blog post may be a long one but then again it may never get posted with the internet luck I have been having.

Lets start from the start and end at the end. Florida has been full of my best times and my worst times on the road and at camp grounds. On the first of May I was driving down US2...
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Hope and Inspiration From Wildwood FL

Posted by Christopher Burks on Monday, June 1, 2009, In : the trip 
It has been an interesting day so far. You know, I would have thought that I would have seen a gator by now (nope)… I have seen dead armadillos, snakes and your other general road kill I Is it possible to get a sun burn on top of a sun burn? I ask my self this as I pull away from the campsite this morning all coated up in SPF50. I now have the answers and it is a big YES, yes you can.  But yet I laugh in the face of danger even when I am faced with the blistering hot sun, spiders that resem...
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Christopher Burks Have you ever wanted to do something so great, that the word adventure does not even begin to describe it? I want to change the world and I can’t do it from behind a desk or in one town, I must travel. I have a restless heart, a poets soul, an insatiable desire and a wanderers spirit. I will set off at the end of April 2009 on a journey of my life time. My ultimate mission of this journey is to change the world, even if it may be just a little change. I will be 28 with only the road ahead of me and my scooter driving me on. I don’t have a set plan on how I will achieve my mission, but I believe that the basics of making the world a better place is loving your fellow man like you would want to be loved, giving help to the people that you can help and striving to help the ones out of reach. Scooter Diaries is a mission, a story and my journal. In this website you will read about my journey and the people I meet along the way I’ll post photos and videos of all sorts of people and places. We all have our own lives to live and we all have our hard times. I hope that we can meet someday and I get to hear your story. ~~~~~Grace and Peace~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Toph~~~~~~~~~~~~~