Actual coaster trip
Feb. 11th, 2026 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinI managed to do more roller-coaster-riding over the past 12 months that I'd done in any prior year, riding, I think, something like 17 total and 13 that were new to me. That includes my first two rides of 2026, at Universal Singapore on January 2.
But I've never done a coaster trip, in the coaster-enthusiast sense. Since my family are not fanatics for this stuff, it'd have to be a solo vacation (or with some other group). I'd mulled over some possibilities here in the past.
Well, I'm going to do it early this summer: the option I'd been thinking of as "the eastern Pennsylvania road trip". 3 days on and around Hersheypark (2-day ticket, with an additional non-park day to poke around the area and take my time moving on), 1 at Knoebels, 1 at Dorney Park. I will probably briefly hit Quassy on the way there, and maybe some park or attraction to be named later (Rye Playland? An alpine coaster? Something entirely different?) on the way back, if I'm feeling ambitious. I'm timing it all to avoid World Cup interference, though I think I'm well away from the places that will be worst affected.
This is a modest plan as coaster-freak tours go, but I'm no spring chicken and my endurance is limited. It may make 2026 a bigger year than 2025 all on its own.
But I've never done a coaster trip, in the coaster-enthusiast sense. Since my family are not fanatics for this stuff, it'd have to be a solo vacation (or with some other group). I'd mulled over some possibilities here in the past.
Well, I'm going to do it early this summer: the option I'd been thinking of as "the eastern Pennsylvania road trip". 3 days on and around Hersheypark (2-day ticket, with an additional non-park day to poke around the area and take my time moving on), 1 at Knoebels, 1 at Dorney Park. I will probably briefly hit Quassy on the way there, and maybe some park or attraction to be named later (Rye Playland? An alpine coaster? Something entirely different?) on the way back, if I'm feeling ambitious. I'm timing it all to avoid World Cup interference, though I think I'm well away from the places that will be worst affected.
This is a modest plan as coaster-freak tours go, but I'm no spring chicken and my endurance is limited. It may make 2026 a bigger year than 2025 all on its own.