Roller coasters

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I didn’t think I would, because as I stated previously I am afraid of heights, but they’re so fun
 
I used to love to ride them too when I was younger.

I wouldn’t be able to do it now either, due to some chronic health issues.

My Dad would take my sister and I to amusement parks when we were younger, and that is when we would mostly ride the roller coasters.

Then when I was older, my Dad and I went to Six Flags in IL together when I was a teenager. We had a great time, as he loved to ride roller coasters.

The following year I was on a class trip to California and we went to Disney and Knots Berry Farm, too. More coaster fun. 🙂
 
Yes, they are. I grew up in Brooklyn and rode the Cyclone in Coney Island many times.
 
I have quite a bit of love for them. When I was younger, I was too afraid to go on many of them. Now I look forward to riding them and tend to focus on them when going to an amusement park. My personal favorite is Cheetah Run in Busch Gardens. It used to be Flight of Fear at Kings Dominion, but Cheetah Run offers a lot of what I like about that coaster without all the semi-painful jerking.

In general, Busch Gardens in Tampa has my favorite collection of rollercoasters.
The last time I went, I was able to ride all the major ones and enjoyed them all a lot.
1Lord1Faith said:
I rode Cedar Point’s newest coaster, Steel Vengeance.
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I really want to revisit that park. My love for rollercoasters has gone up a bit since then. I want to try re-riding some of the ones that were a bit intense for me last time.
 
I have to correct myself, I called a ride after burner, apparently it’s just afterburn. I blame myself on being a nerd, because the Game Boy Advance has a way to light the screen on the original one called afterburner. Not to mention, afterburner I would fit in quite well with its previous Top Gun theme.
 
I like wooden ones and steel ones, I haven’t been on any in about a decade though. Some of the wooden ones, just reading about them, I’m surprised that they’ve held up for as long as a lot of them have.
 
I’ve never been to Busch Gardens, although I think my mother has, Kings Dominion, I’ve never been there but I know because every time I go to Washington DC, I always see signs on the way there. Washington DC is less like an amusement park, and more like a circus, it’s beautiful, but, it’s beautiful, but that’s all I’m going to say about that.
 
I remember when I was younger, I lived in Illinois, in Kewanee, which is not exactly near where Six Flags is in Illinois. Then again, it’s a lot closer than Cairo or Metropolis. Anyway, I remember, my oldest little sister and I, because my youngest ones have a different father, so they weren’t there, because they weren’t born yet, having to stay home, while my older brother and my older sister went to Six Flags with my mother. I would say that we were a little upset, but, my dad was disabled, and by that time the ALS was getting progressively worse and he needed someone to help. I remember, because my dad was a nerd, and we actually printed out a banner to my siblings and my mother, saying something like welcome home or something like that. I mean it’s a little thing, but it’s one of those things that stands out in your mind, especially when you have a parent that died when you were a child. I think I like that memory, more than I would have liked going to Six Flags. I did eventually go on roller coasters, albeit somewhere else, and when I was in my I would say mid-teens would be the first time. I guess the folks in Metropolis and Cairo, they’d be closer to St Louis wouldn’t they?
 
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I guess the folks in Metropolis and Cairo, they’d be closer to St Louis wouldn’t they?
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Hi Adam,

I think so, regarding those southern IL towns.

That would be a nice memory to have of being with your Dad and of doing something with your Dad, I would think, too. I’m really sorry that he’s no longer with you.
 
It’s okay, he wouldn’t have been physically capable of going anyway.
 
As my mother has lived in both St Petersburg in the Florida and Los Angeles and California, I asked her if she had been to some of the places some of y’all had said, and indeed she has. She even said she was actually hired to work at Busch Gardens. I know the time period she lived in St Petersburg, So she would have been pregnant with my older brother. However, she did not know that, but that’s probably why she ended up not working there. That’s a story in and of itself, but in a nutshell, she got back with my dad, and my brother was born in Iowa, and then they moved to Los Angeles for some reason. I know my mother lived there as a kid. So I asked her, about some of the stuff in California, she’s been there too. I like to travel, I like roller coasters, I find people who travel to ride on roller coasters quite interesting. I need to save some money.
 
I do remember the very long lines, waiting to get on one of the big roller coasters here, like the Matterhorn at Disneyland or Colossus at Magic Mountain. Sometimes the wait in line would be an hour or longer! Those were early lessons in time management and prioritizing. If the park closed in two hours, would it better to spend one hour waiting in line for a good ride, or to go on several less desirable rides with shorter lines? 🤔
 
Many roller coasters throw me around like a rag doll, and afterwards I’ll have a headache and neck ache.

I don’t mind loops and rolls, but it has to be smooth, not jerky. One of my favorites is Fahrenheit at Hershey Park. It felt like flying in an air show, or like a bird in flight. Great fun!
 
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adamhovey1988 said:
Kings Dominion, I’ve never been there but I know because every time I go to Washington DC, I always see signs on the way there
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I used to live five minutes from it. My family would go there once or twice a week to just ride a few rides and then head home.
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I do remember the very long lines, waiting to get on one of the big roller coasters here, like the Matterhorn at Disneyland or Colossus at Magic Mountain. Sometimes the wait in line would be an hour or longer!
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I’ve only been to Magic Kingdom in Orlando. Wait times weren’t that bad except for a couple of the more popular rides, and even then, they didn’t approach an hour. They seemed considerably more prepared for large crowds than Universal.
 
I think I might check some of these coasters in warmer places out
 
Milt said:
I do not do roller coasters as I do not find them fun. That is just me though.
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And me.

I actually dislike the speed more than the heights. Or maybe it’s the speed at that height…🤔
 
I think it’s my trusting nature that allows me not to seriously imagine that I’m anything but completely safe inside, even at high speeds and great heights. 😄
 
I love roller coasters, but not the emotional ones. I love the ones that go upside-down and make you do lots of curly-cues. I don’t like the ones with vertical drops. But if there’s one that loops and loops I’d be on that one over and over.

And, you know what? We Christians do need to be more joyful.
 
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