First Time Riders

First Time Riders, originally uploaded by Robbi Baba.

I rode my bike into the village and rented this motorscooter and two helmets. This was my first experience riding a motorcycle since I was 16 years old and took my friend's new bike out for an insane ride.
My folks survived a pretty nasty motorcycle wreck on cobblestones when they were young and it was an oft repeated family story.
Needless to say, I was nervous as a cat! Fortunately Old Sukhothai is pretty much flat as a pancake and traffic is pretty light. Less fortunately, this clunky old bike was really hard to shift between first and second. It would only shift if I really got up to speed!
It was terrifying, but we got to see parts of the village we'd never ever have seen. And I was able to take Krista around to some of the places she'd missed out on.