Dreams of Traveling the World (a.k.a. Scooterbob on the Road)

The moto-blogosphere is mourning Bob(skoot) Leong, rider, blogger, and photographer. Bob loved to travel and meet new people while criss-crossing North America. He had barely started his journey into retirement when a heart attack threw Bob out of this life while on vacation.

As a community we felt the need to commemorate the life of Bob in a special way, and David (Scootcommute), a scooterist from Montreal came up with a fine idea.

Picture courtesy of David

On one of his visits in Vancouver David received a gift from Bob, it was a wooden scooter. For more on the back story click here. This is when Scooterbob's travels began. It came to Montreal and then, similar to a baton, it was handed over to Michael, when he was in town.

Michael (Conchscooter) lives in Florida, and the presence of the wooden scooter should come as a surprise to Bob who had plans to travel to Key West in 2015. Alas, while this dream of Bob's will never come to pass, Scooterbob's journey is just about to begin.

We will be sending the small wooden scooter on its way, blogger by blogger, to whomever is willing to participate. This way we will honour Bob's life and dreams.

ScooterBob Travel Guidelines for Europe

• Click here and complete the ScooterBob e-mail request by providing your name, address, blog URL, any timing or other constraints you may have, and the estimated length of time you think ScooterBob will be traveling with you.
• You'll get a confirmation once you're on ScooterBob's destination list.
• You'll also get a confirmation once ScooterBob is on his way to you, with a tracking number.
• When ScooterBob arrives, click here to let us know he arrived safely.
• ScooterBob's next destination depends on you, and on us.  We have a list of bloggers who want to travel withScooterBob.  Suggest to us where you think ScooterBobshould go next.  If we think the next destination should be somewhere else because of timing constraints or other factors, we'll suggest that other destination to you, and add your requested destination to the list.  The list with names and addresses is kept by us, ScooterBob's keepers, and is not made public.
• When you send ScooterBob on his way to the next destination, click here to let us know its headed to its next guide.
• Document your travels with ScooterBob by posting on your blog.  Be as creative as good taste and personal safety allow, also include a Selfie if you like.
• Once your blog post is done, let us know by clicking here.

Places Scooterbob has been so far:
Scooterbob hits the Road, Jack! (Montreal, Canada)
Scooterbob at the Southernmost Point (Key West, Florida)

Other Bloggers from Europe, New Zealand, Canada and the US have already signed up to host Scooterbob. Scooterbob will be going places where Bobskoot never got to travel. And we are sure that this would have made Bob happy.

The tentative itinerary so far... (picture courtesy of David)