Friday, June 22
I rolled on over to Ford's Theatre (where Lincoln was shot) for rehearsal, only to find there was no bike rack in sight. "Excuse me," I said to a guard, "do you know where there's a bike rack nearby?" They didn't really know, and I was about to go in search of one, when the security guards inside the building offered to let me store my Segway inside -- without my even asking! Even more surprising is these were National Park Service guards (Segways are actually banned from all National Park Service property).
Most amusing: I leaned my Segway up against the wall just inside the building... and the guards put orange cones around it! Ha! Awesome!
4 comments:
How can it be banned from NPS property? Isn't the whole Mall NPS property?
Yes. Now do you see why I was so surprised by their politeness?
But they have those Segway tours on the Mall! And what if you are gliding through on your way somewhere, or if you work down there?
I think technically the Segway tours are *just outside* the Mall...
As for riding through there, it's "technically" not allowed, but I have never been stopped when I'm going through Dupont Circle, which is also NPS property. Then again, I'm never on the Circle itself for more than 20 seconds or so.....
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