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I had to wait for my scooter, while they outfitted it with a wind-shield and racks front and back. I paid three hundred dollars for the biggest one they had. I got cheap plates for it, with the stipulation that I could not sell the scooter in Italy. I had an international drivers license I think I got while still in the army. At some point I got international insurance.
Still in Rome I was having a wonderful time. The weather was good. I was buying a scooter for about a third of the cost of the cycle. I would not need insurance and gas mileage beats just about everything. I would not bring it home to the USA so there will be no extra cost there. I hope to be able to sell it when I leave Europe.
I had read the book "I See By My Outfit" maybe by Peter S. Beagle, about two guys and some sort of scooter trip while I was in DC. So that may have been an influence. Everyone used scooters over here in Europe. Whole families would be riding on them in Greece and a lot of them around Rome. It was cheap on gas, which was around five dollars a gallon US. They were easy to park, so you could park almost anywhere, right in the heart of any down-town Europe. And I learned right-quick once I got started, that it was far superior to a motor cycle, by the floorboard and solid front panel, from floor to handle bars, as wind and rain shields. The only problems were it was light and could be hard to handle in strong side-winds.
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