Our day at Kentucky Kingdom started as this neat blend of great heat and great riding. We had time for a couple miscellaneous side adventures like trying to figure out how you were supposed to get to the farther side of the park --- it's bisected by an approach road, and you cross the road either on a bridge or at a designated pedestrian crossing ( Read more... )

Our day at Kentucky Kingdom, Friday, didn't quite start with the opening of the park. We figured we'd been there before and it wasn't that big a park, we could exhaust it before the closing at 7 pm. What it did start is with uncertainty about where, exactly, the park was. Kentucky Kingdom shares its parking lot with the expo center. Last time ( Read more... )

Having shared now the dramatic peaks of our recent amusement park tour let me go back to recount the whole, more or less in chronological order. It began a week ago Thursday, after the typical battening down of the house, watering of the garden, and housing of the pet rabbit at bunny_hugger's parents. Also my stockpiling a lot of durable foods, in case we ( Read more... )

I will spool back to the beginning and tell you all about the whole of our 1,526-mile recent amusement park trip, don't worry. But I wanted to share more of the Wednesday evening at Kings Island because that is where the most dramatic events happened.

Whilst stopped on the Windseeker elevated swing ride 301 feet in the air I could look over ( Read more... )

``What the hell are you SMILING about?'' demanded bunny_hugger as I exited the ride.

So yup, that's me, and you're probably wondering how I got into this situation. It really started at the end of last year, when I decided that I was going to ride Windseeker, the 301-foot-tall elevated swings ride at Cedar Point, this coming season, even if I had to do it ( Read more... )

This week on my humor blog I own up to not knowing something about a key character in Barney Google and Snuffy Smith (it's neither Barney Google nor Snuffy Smith, but it's still someone in the top tier of characters) and then I do my best to bring attention to a humorist from 1899 who's actually a generally good, pleasant read. You can catch up ( Read more... )

You know what we got to do closing day at Michigan's Adventure? Play miniature golf. But not just miniature golf ... it's also ...

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Looking here to let you enjoy some more Michigan's Adventure Tricks and Treats pictures.

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So today my photo dumps begin our trip to Michigan's Adventure for their Halloween event, the Tricks and Treats festival. Ah, but this is from a week later, and for the closing day of the season. See how much things change from one Sunday to the next coming up starting --- now.

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With today's pictures we wrap up that trip to Michigan's Adventure. You'll never guess what's coming up with tomorrow's photo dump!

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