We appreciate all the responses we have gotten to our question. Now I’ll explain the rest of the situation. At a combined age of almost 125 years we are enjoying our very relaxed life style and are not looking for a lot of racing, just another experience. However, speed is always fun. There is not a lot of organized riding in this area. We ride mostly during the day and during the week to avoid as much traffic as possible consequently we don‘t see a lot of other riders. We aren’t interested in giving up our solo bikes, in fact we have considered getting new ones. One of the things that has encouraged us to look into tandems is all the pictures of “Happy Tandem Couples” posted in this forum. The pictures make it look like fun and who doesn’t like fun. Some people confirmed our thinking that tandeming is (or can be) a shared experience and a working together you don’t get riding side by side on solos which also makes it a different experience.