#coaster

This past weekend I enjoyed my first coaster trip of 2025 as a friend and I spent almost three days between Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Kings Dominion. We got to ride pretty much every coaster we wanted to ride, and while the weather on Friday and Saturday was hot, we did not have to contend&h...

It was near the end of the work week, on a Friday perhaps, when my boss came to me and told me I'd be working on site for the following week. Normally I wasn't one to get sent out to work on site but this was a local job, almost right across the street. At…

Last night I had a very strange dream, which, for the most part, isn't all that unusual in my case. This dream was related to something I'm very much looking forwards to doing, but it took a bizarre and unsettling turn near the end. The night before last I slept badly and thus I remembered…

Considering that the roller coaster world lost a very highly acclaimed ride yesterday, I was thinking back to the time when I first had the chance to ride Kingda Ka's near twin, Top Thrill Dragster. During that trip, I also took my first ride on Millennium Force, which was the first traditional s...

Early this morning an event took place that marked the end of an era, as the golden glow of the sunlight shone across the wooded New Jersey landscape. The remaining tower of Kingda Ka, what was the world's tallest (and one of the fastest) roller coaster was demolished around 7 am. This coaster on...