Segway newbie hooked

I had an absolute blast today. My son, my parents and I toured the area around the St. Petersburg pier on Segways. Perfect day, perfect place for it: the parks around the Tampa Bay shoreline taking in gorgeous stucco hotels and mansions, marina, blinding white beaches, tropical gardens. Heaven.

I'd never been on one but took to it pretty easily. It's less like a bike than it is like a horse, and less like a horse than it is like an old Tiger Moth I flew a few times, with your input to the controls being so directly and observably related to where you're headed.