The Ultimate Segway Tour???
 

The following article was sent to me by a friend:

Four Segways, four people, two dogs and one trip across America

http://www.theday.com/article/20170930/NWS01/170939968

New London — Allison Porter is having a mid-life crisis, and when she came to New London from Pennsylvania to visit family, she developed an unorthodox response: She suggested making a cross-country trip on Segways.

"I didn't really think anybody was going to be listening to me," she said. But "a week later they called me, and Kate had this film idea, and she wanted to move to California, and Dawn wanted to be involved with getting her there."

Kate Harkness is Porter's niece and Dawn Harkness is Kate's mother. Dawn Harkness owns Wheeling City Tours, a Segway tour company, in New London.

The three of them — along with Kate's boyfriend, Brett Van Egmond — are embarking from New London at 9 a.m. on Monday morning for what they're calling the "Ultimate Segway Tour" to Los Angeles. They're welcoming the public to bid them adieu at 8:15; the tour company is located at the back of 36 Bank St.

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Here's their Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnP...Zff5RPaebSBQbA

So far, the daily videos are interesting. Of course, a fair amount of "battery died", etc. But nice travelog.

Hard to believe they began this journey without a concrete plan for how they would recharge Seg batteries!

We regularly recharge both of ours in the van while we are driving. I installed a large AGM battery in the van and a 500 watt inverter

If they had a couple golf cart batteries wired into the charging system of the RV, they could recharge everything and anything 24/7 using them as the power source for an inverter and they wouldn't need to run the RV generator at all

An interesting trip for sure. Are they taking turns riding the Seg(s) so that when they get to California, there won't be anyone of them who actually made the entire trip on a Seg? Seems kinda pointless to me if that's the case

Don

It's not totally clear (yet), but from what I have seen, I believe that two of them are taking turns. And it's also not clear (yet) but I believe they have two Segways.

Plan?

Reminds me a little of 10MPH:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_MPH

Yes, they understood that.

At least 2 people are gliders - one at a time.

Day 8 - 7 miles progress, and an accident with apparently-minor injury.

Well, that accident wasn't too bad ,be better if it didn't happen though.
Fell on the bridge. How, why, slippery?

The tour ended after Day 13, having reached Gettysburg.

See the "Day 13" video at...

And the tour did NOT end just because the narrator could not pronounce the word "Cavalry".

Well, not *quite* all the way across the country :p

I was wondering what they were going to do in Denver in November - Snow tires??:rolleyes:

They had a good format going - Plenty of gliding, lots of interesting stops and meeting up with organized Segway groups along th way. I was hoping they would make the whole trip! I wonder what happened? A 'family' disagreement?

Don