A segway is like a checkbook––it requires balancing skills and attentiveness to avoid bouncing over gold-plated lawn fountains. Hone your gliding abilities with today's Groupon: for $35, you get a 90-minute guided segway tour with Shoreline Segway in Guilford (a $70 value).

Shoreline Segway's well-trained, friendly staff ushers segway-equipped and helmet-clad visitors on excursions through Guilford. A friendly tour guide leads a half-hour segway riding practice session before starting the one-hour ride. Feet weary after leap-frog marathons can rest aboard the environmentally conscious, two-wheeled vehicle while their optical counterparts feast on local landmarks such as the Agricultural Fair grounds, Faulkner's and Grass Island, Guilford Marina, Long Island Sound, and Connecticut's oldest house. A mobile lesson in regional history provides Jeopardy-bound brains the knowledge to survive the Connecticut category.