Tag: roller coasters
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November 05, 2009 10:21 PM EST --
In the past decade I have traveled several times to Europe to ride roller coasters there. (I would love to extend my reach to other continents, but to date there has been plenty to attract me to . . .
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October 27, 2009 10:28 PM EDT --
Having spent an inordinately long time documenting my coaster travels to Germany and other locations in 2006, I now soldier on to describe another international trip I took--this one a week spent in Britain, . . .
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April 24, 2007 12:13 AM EDT --
Over the years, I've visited many different Amusement Parks in general, and most of the Six Flags locations specifically... Six Flags over Texas in the Dallas/Ft Worth area is one of their best. We . . .
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June 19, 2007 08:53 PM EDT --
I'm temporarily interrupting my very infrequent recounting of my 2006 roller coaster adventures for something more recent. This past Memorial Day weekend some friends and I visited Coney Island. . . .
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May 08, 2008 09:55 PM EDT --
Slowly over time, in my own plodding and methodical way, I've been recounting my experiences riding roller coasters during the summer of 2006. As out of date as I am, I have finally come to what . . .
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June 04, 2008 09:38 PM EDT --
This is the second article in a series about my trip to Europe in 2006 for Oktoberfest. For the previous installment, see here .
I often find myself too wired after my first day on a long trip, . . .
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April 10, 2007 03:46 AM EDT --
One year, while on a typical Amusement Park extravaganza, four of us we made our way up to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. We had seen numerous folks wearing Cedar Point T-shirts while stinging in line . . .
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July 02, 2008 09:44 PM EDT --
Every summer we take some kind of roller coaster trip. (In fact, we usually take several weekends in addition to a longer trip.) This year's trip was with the American Coaster Enthusiasts . . .
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April 11, 2007 03:51 AM EDT --
Located just north of Richmond, Virginia is an amusement park that I'm told was 'the bomb' at one time. There is no indication of that now. Entering the parking lot of Paramount's Kings . . .
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April 04, 2007 09:33 PM EDT --
I haven't written a trip report in a long time. Just how long was made clear to me when I went on my first coaster trip of the 2007 season last weekend (to Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Paramount's . . .
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September 30, 2009 07:31 PM EDT --
This is the penultimate post in my long-running series about my trip to Oktoberfest in 2006. Here are links to the previous installments.
Okcoasterfest 2006 part 1, getting there
Okcoasterfest . . .
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October 05, 2009 09:12 PM EDT --
Finally! At long last this is the final post in a series on my 2006 trip to Europe to ride coasters and visit Oktoberfest. If you want to review the series, you can go to any of the other . . .
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July 26, 2007 02:11 AM EDT --
I had not planned to go to Tivoli this week. I had planned to go shopping in Copenhagen. You know Denmark has the absolute best shopping in Scandinavia. You didn't know that? Well you do now. But, . . .
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March 24, 2008 09:24 PM EDT --
It has been a long while, but I'd like to continue relating my roller coaster experiences going all the way back to late summer of 2006. Though it's been a long time since the events I relate, . . .
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July 07, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
In Allentown, Pennsylvania there is a park named Dorney. It is one of the oldest parks in the country, at more than 120 years old, but since being acquired by Cedar Fair (the operators of mega-park . . .
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July 09, 2008 10:45 PM EDT --
This is the third article in a series about my trip to Europe in 2006 for Oktoberfest. For the previous installment, see here and here .
The third day of our trip featured a trip to a very . . .
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April 24, 2007 08:03 PM EDT --
Some roller coaster and amusement park enthusiasts are only after the thrills. Though I enjoy a good thrill ride as much as anybody, I like a more well rounded amusement park experience. Fortunately . . .
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December 23, 2008 10:09 PM EST --
This is the seventh article in a series about my trip to Europe for Oktoberfest in 2006. Here are links to the previous installments:
Okcoasterfest 2006 part 1, getting there
Okcoasterfest . . .
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November 19, 2006 07:49 PM EST --
I'm not the only coaster enthusiast around, nor the only one enjoys the hobby with a significant other. Every so often some of these coaster couples get married, and some of them have chosen . . .
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March 26, 2009 10:51 PM EDT --
This is the eighth article in a series about my trip to Europe for Oktoberfest in 2006. If you've lost track of the story because the interval between installments is getting so long, or if . . .
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