Modern Vespa

Well, it's a Derbi scooter, long a Spanish subsidiary of Piaggio, so Imma guess Spain? On your way to the fleas, that tease, in the High Pyrenees? And the wine that tasted of tar?

https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Belloc-Hilaire_Tarantella.html

Very little else to go on.

Excellent detective skills! Tortosa, in the mountains south east of Barcelona, near Tarragona.
All the roads look the same with random 100 year old cabins way back from the road. I got lost and started taking pics to find my way back. No signs, lights, nothing. Was definitely getting concerned.

where in the world___did Holx pick up his worst tummy bug in quite a while?

This was a total guess, and not SO close to the Pyrenees. But you were probably southwest of Barcelona. Southeast of Barcelona the terrain is different - considerably moister and saltier.

True. I would need a jet ski not a scooter.

Where in the world is Boulty?
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Another where in the world is Cogind?

Were is Jim now?

I'm not a good architectural photographer.

Easy… Vienna

Oslo Opera House?

Nope. The Sign is written in German. I would say somewhere in Germany. Looks familiar, but I can`t for the Life of me, place a Name on it.

Now that I think of it. It looks like Esslingen in Baden-Würthemberg Germany.Just a Guess.

Only very evil tongues claim that no German is spoken in Vienna, Austria... The restaurant's telephone number begins with the area code "01 / xxx".

Note: In German-speaking countries, the slash is used to indicate the separation between the area code and the telephone number.

There are no such short area codes in Germany, here they have a minimum of three digits, e.g. 030 for Berlin, 040 for Hamburg 089 for Munich. Furthermore, no German area code begins with "01".

"01" is the area code for Vienna, Austria.

Untere Augartenstraße 10, 1020 Wien, Austria

Ooops! You are right sir. My bad! And to think I have been living in Germany for the last 35 years. Das ist mir sehr peinlich!

Muss Dir nicht peinlich sein!

Where are you originally from and why have you been in Germany for so long? On your own free will? Give us a sign, then maybe we can rescue you...

Correct, apparently so I'm told, a local woman traded a bottle of Brandy with the Americans for the King Tiger Tank. The Yanks were going to blow it up so it was a good deal all round.

It's a long Story with a Happy Ending.
I was in the U.S.Army 35 Years ago. I came to Germany in 1989. I met this very pretty young German Lady and I have been living here ever since. I hail originaly from Logan county W.Va.

Question. Who was this Woman?

Name unknown but she was the local Innkeepers wife.

Local Innkeepers Wife huh. I guess that would explain the Brandy. I think that the Soldiers got the bad end of the Deal. They should have at least demanded two bottles of Brandy instead of accepting one .

Where was I?

Hyder? Looks like a boat launch.

Yes, you got it.

Yes! You got the place right. It was the start of the 2014 Scooter Cannonball Run.

I posted this one a few weeks ago, so don't reply if you already saw it, and don't cheat by looking through my posts!

Well spotted

Where was RRider on this rainy day?

The Guggenheim, Bilbao

Correct!

Alright, alright, I've obviously stymied the MV kids with my enigmatic post on the location of 'The World's Largest Pheasant', a 28 foot tall, 40 foot long, 22 ton gigantic fiberglass and steel Ringneck Pheasant in......here goes....Huron, South Dakota, and has been looking over the town since 1959.

Now you know.

Nobody wants to venture a guess at where this grand old train station is? It's a museum now, but nearly every soldier in WWII came through here.

Omaha Union Station?

Do you mean "nearly every US soldier in WWII came through here"?

New location. Where in the world is Jess now?

Where is JKJ today?

Just missed getting scooters in the picture.

Minehaha Parkway, Minneapolis!

Correct!

Yes! Also known as the Durham Museum. There are more reasons to stop in Omaha than to look for Warren Buffett