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Let’s DO AC, I suggested to my friend John. It had been awhile since we’d seen him and his family, so the chance to see the Atlantic City beach concert seemed like a custom-made opportunity for our families to spend some time together.
We came up with seven tickets to the Maroon 5/ Nick Jonas concert at the last minute and John and his kids, Riley and J.T., drove in from Lumberton on Sunday afternoon.
My first mistake was suggesting that they pack their bikes and we would ride down the show from our home in Margate.
We would avoid all that backed-up concert traffic and packed parking garages, I promised, and simply peddle down the Ventnor Boardwalk to Atlantic City, lock the bikes up and rock on.
I have made this bike trip by myself many times and it usually takes less than a half hour from my house to the concert site.
What I hadn’t factored was, when I make those bike trips its a fairly high rate of speed, not as a member of the world’s slowest moving bike caravan, crawling turtle-like toward what seemed like an unreachable destination.
The trip featured numerous stops and delays and it was obvious almost as soon as we were too far away to turn back that this was NOT the way to get to the big concert.
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