Vacation Biking

For those of us who live in a tourist destination, our source of entertainment is - watching the tourists.

Oh sure there are days when we "locals" curse the gridlock brought about by the influx of transients, but such frustrations are offset by watching those same visitors when they're on foot - or on bikes.

The beach seems to favorite place for bike riding. For those tourists who don't ride two wheeled conveyances on a regular basis - a pedal powered surrey eliminates the necessity to maintain balance.

For those of you unfamiliar with the four wheeled surrey - it's essentially an adult size version of the pedal cars toddlers ride in. Only adults seem to lose the common sense children are born with. As evidenced by the foursome who took their pedal car down the main drag of our beach town today.

To avoid being driven to the curb by traffic, the foursome in the surrey were forced to pedal as furiously as nasty old Almira Gulch in the Wizard of Oz.  Hunched over, legs pumping, brows dripping with perspiration, the "sensible" adults were in danger of collapsing from heat stroke.

I thought the idea of vacation was to get out of the rat race.