So if you want some exercise, walk this near 6-mile route:
If you want serious exercise, do it pushing a stalled out 210lb scooter.
For added fun, do it on the day that the worst possible albeit brief thunderstorm hits the beach.
I did it. So can you! Why you would want to, I don’t know. The only reason I did it was because I went over to the mainland to do some scouting. On the way back, the scooter quit on me. (Not scouting Bayside; that’s just where the scooter happened to die.)
Almost two and one-half hours, it took me. After I walked around the toll on the Venetian Causeway, I actually saw one of the other drivers from where I work. He was on his way home. Stopped. Talked. Thought I was crazy. Standing there, looking at the high-rises of downtown Miami way off in the distance and (panning to the left) seeing the high-rises of South Beach just as far off if not farther, I thought for a minute he might be right. My logic ran along the lines of (as it sometimes does): “If I can drive a 50cc across the United States AND back, surely I can do this.”
It took me fifty minutes just to get from one end of the Venetian Causeway to the other. When I hit the beach, that’s when the storm started. I’ve never heard thunder so loud or felt like lightning was actually going to strike me. Did anyone else witness that thing? Naturally, it stopped right as I was walking up to the scooter shop. Dropped off the scooter, walked the three blocks home. I know it’s in good hands now. Now I just have to wait.
I think I’m going to be sore tomorrow.