From May to October in Prospect Park, a 30-foot wooden-decked electric tour boat, the Independence, patterned after one that plied these same waters in the 1860s, ferries visitors around the park's serpentine 60-acre lake.
You don't often hear stories of people facing down Dylan, let alone turning their backs on him, but Helm did both, stipulating that the maestro had to take on all the Hawks, as the Band then was, or none, and then later dropping out of the electric tour (apparently sick of the general obsequiousness towards the mighty Bob) to work on an oil rig.
Mr Harris said: "I've been lucky enough to have gone all round the world, with The Cult on the Electric tour, and Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction tour, but there's nothing like the friends you make in your first ever band.
Most of the park employees depart on a boat for the mainland and the visitors return to the electric tour vehicles, except Ellie, who stays with the park's veterinarian to study the Triceratops.
In hilly San Francisco, Electric Tour Co. (electrictourcompany.com) cyclists use Ultra Motor bikes for the ride ($85) through Ft. Mason, along the Marina Green, through the Presidio and over the nearly two-mile-long Golden Gate Bridge into the Marin County burg of Sausalito.
Several outfitters offer electric bike tours in Switzerland.
Rolling Out on an E-Bike Several outfitters offer electric bike tours in Switzerland.
Electric buggy tours are available for the less mobile and there are all-terrain pushchairs for hire.
And baseball isn't all that's starting: the day also signifies the beginning of carousel rides, electric boat tours and other spring treats in the park.
Electric boat tours every half-hour, 12 30 to 4 30 p.m., Audubon Center; $6, adults, $3, children33 to 12. Pedal boats, 12 to 6 p.m., Wollman Rink; $15 an hour.
