Thanks for the good thoughts, everyone. My step-mum is looking into renting bikes for us while we are there.

So V--as the year goes by, we can adopt a "No rants is good news" outlook. Rant away when you need to!
Since last year being my 1st year (back) in the district I could easily just blow off the grumpy complaining coworkers, I'm hoping I can continue that, and continue to be relentlessly cheerful.