Segway
I had a great time today riding Segway scooters with my friends. We rented them at Segway of Oakland, which is nearby the Lake Merritt BART station. You can see a couple of pictures thanks to Jim. (Only two of the pictures show us actually riding the Segways; we took them through Peralta Park, Jack London Square, nearby the Port of Oakland, through Oakland's Chinatown, past Snow Park, and along Lake Merritt. I've managed to follow our route with the aerial images in Google Maps, but I don't see a convenient way to annotate the images or make an animation showing our route. Too bad!) The pictures of us on the Segways were taken in Peralta Park.
I highly recommend the Learn to Ride a Segway program if you've got a couple of friends in the Bay Area and want to do something fun on the weekend.
I did manage to join President Bush in having fallen off a Segway. My Segway was actually turned on. I got a bit overconfident because I had ridden a Segway before, and tried to do some fancy stuff in beginner mode. The Segway didn't respond as quickly as I had expected, and I took a tumble. I don't know whether I was as funny as the cartoon character who keeps falling off the Segway in the training video.
