moped riding on the islands

Let's hope we don't need to cut the head off a live rooster to take a potential hex off the blog. The aforementioned "Lafayette, Louisiana friend" was involved in a scooter accident and (according to his mates we ran into again in Ios) had to be flown back to the states at a cost of 20 Gs. These scooters are bad, bad news. Everyone always asks if it's a good idea to rent one. Let's just say "pull over onto the shoulder" is not a frequently used phrase on the Greeck isles, b/c there ain't any, nor many guardrails. The helmets that come with these things are more for show. You get the drift. Wherever you are, you are in our prayers.