Excursion: Blue Highways
Photo: Clay Enos
Photographer Clay Enos is riding a Vespa 300 GTS Super from New York to Vancouver on the small, forgotten, out-of-the-way roads that connect rural America. Along the way he's documenting the people and places he sees from those roads.
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Excursion: Blue Highways
Photographer Clay Enos is riding a Vespa 300 GTS Super from New York to Vancouver on the small, forgotten, out-of-the-way roads that connect rural America. Along the way he's documenting the people and places he sees from those roads.
Click below for the feature:
Excursion: Blue Highways
Grant Ray. August 26, 2009 — Permalink
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If you like this, make sure to check out http://vespa-vagabond.blogspot.com/
Same thing, but in the opposite direction from a couple years ago. Great photo's, good stories, and she's now out in Montana with a Coyote.
Beautiful! Pictures like these makes me realize why I love travelling on a bike.
Amazing.
A lot of us get caught up in MotoGP and knee dragging (myself included), but sometimes we forget that rides like these that really connect a person with their surrounding are really what set bikes apart from cars, trains or buses.
On a bike, there's are no walls between you and everything else.
Awesome photos.
Beautiful.
I wish I was in that room full of cheeses right now.
I bet it smells wonderful.
The scooter ride is cool, too, but my envy of his having the time to ride a scooter cross-country is getting in the way. Also, his ride pictures are better than mine.
Wow! Where was photo #15 taken? (reg/grey rock strata.)
Don't know about the Vespa, for me those things are so Urup, so Rome, strange to see them in Americana.
But sweet stuff, great pics.
Makes us remember what a great, and admit it,hartbreaking place yours is.
They give me as the germans call it, Fernweh; we don't have a word for it in dutch, it's the opposite of homesickness.
That is in the Badlands, South Dakota, I believe.
Fernweh is also called Wanderlust.
The photos are just beautiful. Seeing the sky touch the ground everywhere you look on the prairie is something you have to experience.
Awesome. This is what riding is all about.
blue highways the book??? deeeecccceennntttt, and same idea
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America/dp/0316353299
gorgeous.
i drove the from NYC to vancouver in 2004, but along a slightly (from what i can tell) route, and in a first-gen prius packed to the gills, with a grumpy, sedated cat in back. it was amazing in its own way, but i kept thinking how amazing it would have been on my old honda cx500 cabbage-patch bike.
will we be getting a route map at any point?
That's the best Excursion HFL has put up.
Was the iPhone used for any GPS service, I wonder, or any other custom apps, similar to the functionality utilised by the MotoCzysz E1pc?
Any idea where I can come across a camera mount like that? So many times I've wished for a bar mounted camera while on the road...
Great shots Clay! Thanks
Great job, and looks like an awesome roadtrip.
Thanks. Nice one.
Another one for the inspired...
The Achievable Dream
The Motorcycle Adventure Travel Guide
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/
I'm a product of those wide-open spaces & after spending more than a quarter of my life in crowded SE Asia- it's pictures like that (and the thought of the epic road trip) which keep me thinking in the back of my mind that I'll one day return to take that ride...
Love it man. Great stuff! Brutha makes it look easy. Thanks for just getting out there and doing it.
Thank God it wasn't done on a Goldwing.
That's truly awesome. Certainly goes to show that it's not really important what you ride, as long as you ride :)
Enos is making what I consider a dream ride, especially on a Vespa. Traveling slow and through roads less clogged with traffic really gives a rider a chance to see the countryside.
His photography is excellent.
Someday I hope to do something like this myself. Until then I'll have to be content with short rides and commuting...
Steve Williams
Scooter in the Sticks
I would guess picture #15 is the Badlands of South Dakota near Wall, SD???
You have inspired me to purschase a vespa.God Bless you for doing something I always wanted to do.At my age now it almost out of question,(67)due to health issures.The pictures were great !!!Take care and rest up.! earnie,
Thank you Clay for your pics!
I'm from Japan and I get the same exeperience in Italy last summer with Vespa 125 Special.
I rent it in Florence Vespa rental shop called www.stradanova.com.
They are realy nice people and they gave me a road book with the best Tuscany back roads and I spend all my holidays far from turistic jam!
I think this is the best way for travel, slow with vintage style!
Suzi. Tokyo
Clay, you really captured the joy, beauty and the sheer fun of riding a Vespa and being able to take photographs anywhere! I have had a Vespa GT200 Granturismo for three years and it is my prized toy! Its get 75 MPG and can cruise comfortably at 65 mph. It will go faster but I won't. Your photos are stunning! Having good equipment helps but your composition and color is professional! I have a Canon 50D with several L series lens...now I have to find the time to leave my life and go on an adventure!