Wednesday, February 14, 2007

In the beginning

Back in August of 05, I was in Estes Park, Co with some friends for camping in Rocky Mountain National Park.
One afternoon we went into town to get supplies, and it was so busy. Bumper to bumper, cars running, circling for parking spaces. It doesn't take much to make Estes feel crowded, and I thought to myself that it would be great to have my scooter here.
I'd been living in Austin, Texas for 15 years at that point, and a Honda Metropolitan was my main source of transportation. $9 a month in gasoline was a lot better than the $150 I was paying out to drive a truck around town.

I mentioned to my friends the idea that I just had, to open a scooter rental in this town.

That same week in Estes, my friends and I went to the Estes Park Brewery, and as we pulled into the driveway I said outloud, "This is where the scooter rental should be." As we drove to the rear of the parking lot, I saw an empty building. "That's my scooter booth." We parked, and my friends went into the brewery, and I walked up to the empty building to check it out.
Inside the brewery I spoke with the owner, told him of my idea, and he gave me a contact number to the man who owns the property that the brewery and the empty building sits on.
We left Estes Park, and I had an idea in my head.

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