Segway tour of Chicago

I’d set my alarm for 7am but I woke up at 5.30am naturally. I left at about 8.45am and drove into downtown Chicago. Even at that time on a Sunday morning there was lots of traffic.

I rode a segway back in England a few months ago and absolutely loved it so I’d leapt at a chance to join a tour of Chicago on one! It wasn’t cheap ($70) but it was great fun! First of all they showed a safety video and then we had to give a deposit and sign a waiver and things. It was so different from the English way of doing things!

It was a group of 7 and he picked me to demonstrate how easy it was. I think he chose me because I’m female and I was the eldest in the group. Once he realised I could stand on it, he said for me to just practice carefully by myself so I was off! I went up the hill nearby, across the rocky grass, around the cars and then I realised the others were standing and applauding me which was funny! I did admit that I had done it before but afterwards he said that we were 40 minutes ahead of schedule and this was the fastest group to learn to ride that he had ever taken due to having seen me having fun on it.

The tour was for 3 hours and we covered 8 miles all around the lake front which was very pretty. There were several stops for photos and the guide told us all about the city. It was a far more genteel tour than the English one (probably due to safety over here) as we kept to footpaths – in England we went across fields and up and down small hills.

The Planetarium: