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Getting It All Back Together

Posted on July 28, 2008 - Filed Under Fatherhood | 1 Comment

Wow!  It’s been a really great summer.  I suppose I should say it was a really great summer, ’cause mine’s over now.  It started early (with the trip to Hard Rock Park’s opening in May) so I suppose it’s only fair that it end early as well. Tomorrow Z boards a plane to visit my mother for two weeks, then…

X2 - Xtreme Roller Coaster Pain at Six Flags Magic Mountain

Posted on July 9, 2008 - Filed Under Ride Reports | Leave a Comment

Last fall I made an “emergency” trip down to Six Flags Magic Mountain to be one of the last people to ever ride X, their Arrow Dynamics created prototype 4th dimension coaster, before they did a $10 Million revamp and transformed it into X2. I was very much not impressed, rating it a 3 on a scale of 1-10.

In May I…

Roller Coaster at Fun Town / Funderwoods, Micke Grove, Lodi

Posted on May 19, 2008 - Filed Under Ride Reports | Leave a Comment

In my ongoing quest to ride every roller coaster in California, this was, by far, the most difficult to locate. Let’s start with just gathering information about it online…

It’s name is simply “roller coaster”. This doesn’t really give the search engines much to go on, does it. Add in the fact that various roller coaster sites have its home park…

Getting Serious About California CoasterQuest

Posted on May 19, 2008 - Filed Under Ride Reports | Leave a Comment

Last November I dropped a post about some long term goals in order to provide a template of sorts for Z. One of those goals was to ride every roller coaster in California. As I’ve noted here before progress toward this goal has kicked in to high gear recently. So, I though I’d present y’all with some numbers.

According to Roller…

California CoasterQuest Continues

Posted on May 16, 2008 - Filed Under Ride Reports | Leave a Comment

My long term goal of riding every roller coaster in California has tripped into high gear with the coming of Spring and all the amusement parks opening up for the year. In fact, next week three new coasters are supposed to be opening here in California: Pony Express at Knott’s Berry Farm (Thursday, May 22nd); Tony Hawk’s Big Spin at Six…

Single Rider Sickness At Six Flags Magic Mountain

Posted on November 29, 2007 - Filed Under Ride Reports, Road Trippin', Travel | Leave a Comment

Sunday, 5:15am - beep, Beep, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP WHACK!

5:24am - beep, Beep, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP WHACK!

5:33am - beep, Beep, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP WHACK!

5:42am - beep, Beep, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP groan, click

I finally crawled out of bed, splashed some water on my face, and headed off for my solo day at Six Flags Magic Mountain. I had to get up early because…


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