Regarding transporting your scooter:
There are gravity/clamp on brackets you can get(at least back in the
70's you could).  Hook em to your bumper, tighten and your 8 or 9 inch
tires fit in "cages".  Then just secure it. Friend had them.
If you stay in a motel, drive your scooter into your room at night.
 I junk picked a set, for larger motor cycle of course, and I was always
curious if my vespa 200 tires would fit..too lazy to find out and
haven't had a car w/ exposed bumpers.  Now I have a multivan with
covered bumpers and they aren't going on that....maybe when I get a
syncro...

chris c
> just got engaged and am moving to El Segundo Ca (near
> LA) in august to be with my fiance'. I'm going to be
> driving my 82' Diesel westy out with her, any
> suggestions for which route is good for a diesel to
> drive cross country? any suggestions for a trailer
> hitch(class III)? I want to put one of those metal
> utility things on the back to put my 1963 Vespa on.
> Also neither one of us has done such a roadtrip, so
> ideas of safe places to pull over nad sleep for the
> night.