The ocean always seemed to me a creature-infested abyss -- unsafe to simply wade in, let alone to climb atop and ride, aiming at a moving target.
Now a smartphone app has been launched to match scooter drivers with people wanting to hitch a ride, aimed at helping locals avoid the city's notoriously inefficient public transport and giving tourists a cheap way of seeing the sights.
Family-operated parks run the gamut from places like Storybook Land, an amusement park in Cardiff, N.J., about a dozen miles west of Atlantic City, that offers smaller rides aimed at younger children, to places like Morey's Piers, which have roller coasters just short of the Six Flags-type screamers.
This autumn, 16 intrepid adventurers will take to Egypt's roads for a nine-day, cross-country scooter ride aimed at promoting tourism to the country.
With a minimum age requirement of 13, the ride aims to be thrilling, rather than harrowing.
Inspired by the 1961 freedom rides that sought to integrate buses in the South, the new ride aims to turn immigrants' rights into a new civil rights movement.
In the show's one instrumental, Young's "Tickle Toe," Mr. Riggs's taut miniature drum solos, which were sandwiched into the arrangement, pressed the accelerator on a joy ride aiming down an open highway into the wild blue yonder.
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Take a ride Aim for Paillon park (7), where a giant Ferris wheel is in situ until the end of the carnival (1 March).
"The Long Christmas Ride Home" aims high.
