John's birthday

We went to a local karting track for my birthday, where you can rent single speed go-karts that go up to 50mph. (They have even faster karts but you have to qualify to rent them.) Henry had fun playing in the dirt.

Here we are mostly suited up.  That's our friend Barb on the right with her son.

Here am I getting scolded for spinning off track multiple times.  We were told we probably wouldn't need to use the brakes.  So that's what I tried to do.  That resulted in spinning off track in the middle of the corner.  I guess that advice is for noobs.  Once I started to use the brakes, I didn't spin until I did something stupid, like lock up the brakes.  Well, that's how you find the limit of traction.

BTW, there are karts with much smaller engines and a max of 20mph for kids as young as five.