What a great thread! I did something similar this last Friday with my 14 year old son. I work nights, and he's a night owl too. Sooo, at 4:30 a.m. we are both wide awake and rambling around the house. He wants to go for a bike ride, which I'm not too enthusiastic about as my back is hurting from packing to move, and it's about 28 degrees outside. But, after seeing how badly he wanted to go, we both bundle up and off we go.
We biked about four miles into town, biked around town and up to Smiths for something to drink. Then we decided it was time to bike another mile over to Carls Junior for breakfast and coffee. Then we biked over to his school and he went to school and I went home. He's still talking about the ride a week later.