Here goes, it's an adventure, just call me devil-may-care
Today please relax, site back, find out What's Going On In Mark Trail? Should I avoid reading Mark Trail for now? and look at the rest of my Michigan's Adventure pictures from June. You won't guess what's coming next unless you know literally anything about me!
Here's Thunderhawk doing one of the many inversions that bang the heads of its riders.
And here's Thunderhawk as seen from outside its return leg. It's a spot we rarely go because you really only see it on the way to the train ride. But we discovered how neat it looked the year before when only the area around the train was open for the Halloween event and so we were looking there again, here.
And here's Thunderhawk from even closer to the train, one of the views we discovered at Halloween the last year. Michigan's Adventure has a reputation for being treeless and you can see how it's not so.
A bench in honor of a person I don't know anything about. It's placed in a part of the park I'm not sure you can just happen to run across.
Here we are on the train, looking across some of the marshes that are probably why nothing's built in that area, looking at the lift hill for Shivering Timbers.
Thunderhawk's launch station seen from the train, where you can look straight on at the platform.
There's a cute little tunnel on the ride! Here we go through it.
And here's the other station, near Shivering Timbers and the General Store photographed yesterday.
Trabant here is one of the flat rides that isn't always running because it shares an operator with the Tilt-a-Whirl and sometimes the Flying Trapeze swings ride. I like getting pictures of the controls like this, even when they're closed up.
Back near the petting zoo we noticed a couple chipmunks running back and forth; here's one of them in mid-rush. In the shadows you probably can't see but there was an Eastern cottontail rabbit, sitting and minding their business, until one of the squirrels crashed into them.
Last ride of the day: we got on Mad Mouse in an interval of its running. Here's the view of the two trees that can't be twins anymore since they grew too tall for the left one to keep going. Note that the shorter tree, having found its original leader blocked off, grew sideways a couple inches and tried for a new leader.
Architectural history at work here. Part of the big renovations for 2023 were putting in new bathrooms (including a Family Bathroom) and here you can see where the new construction closed off the space that used to be the General Store and replaced it with expanded and new bathrooms.
Trivia: The novelist O Henry --- first to use the phrase ``banana republic'' in print --- had lived in Puero Cortés, while on the lam from charges of stealing funds from the bank in Texas where he had clerked. Source: Bananas: How The United Fruit Company Shaped The World, Peter Chapman.
Currently Reading: Marvel Tales Featuring Rocket Raccoon, Bill Mantlo, Mike Mignola.