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  1. So yeah, it's what I wrote in the topic title, though there's the huge caveat that I have yet to ride any flying coasters, but it can simply be considered as my bucket list of flying coasters. Why flying coasters? Because among the categories I considered, it's the group with the fewest rides for me to rank. Please watch with the subtitles on, otherwise it's just the POV's and the music. I hope you enjoy it: [Link removed] The subtitles also contain the credits for all the POV sources. They're also listed and linked in the description. For many months now, I've had the intention to do a huge top 500 coasters in a similar style to this (for a much much much longer video), and I've tried to do and re-do the ranking almost a dozen times now, but each time by the point I've reordered the bottom/top 70 or so of the list, I see things that no longer make sense to me. That whole idea is probably biting off significantly more than I can chew, so I tried limiting the scope by a lot to see at least how I handle the next stages of creating a video like this. I think I'm gonna shelve the top 500 idea way way way back, I'm wondering if there's any point in trying to do more videos of more reasonable length, like this. I could certainly use some feedback.
  2. Thanks for the recommendations. I have looked into those airlines a few months back and my plan included flights with a couple of them. As for the parks: Disneyland & Universal are not really my kinda thing (not that I wouldn't enjoy my time in them, but I tremendously prefer most Six Flags and Cedar Fair parks to them), they don't have many attractions that appeal to me greatly, I know the waits in there would be long, and they're more expensive than the parks I'm more interested in.
  3. Well, I don't envision making more than one trip to the States, the biggest reasons for that are that the flights are long and that they're expensive. I mean, I'm not gonna disqualify possibly coming back maybe 5 or 10 years later, but it's not something I want to plan. I also wanna make the most out of the Six Flags and Cedar Fair memberships.
  4. Update: I just got the US VISA today. Yay! But the prices for the flights I wanted and the car rentals have risen by quite a bit so as to make this trip not viable for me in 2020. I'll save up to do it in 2021 instead.
  5. Thanks for the tips, but the American Dream is probably the last park I'll visit in the US in this trip anyway.
  6. According to Google Maps, here's one way of going about it: https://goo.gl/maps/z1zvjnWJP5cTzXLc8 Though I see that if I wanted to do it the other way around (which is more specifically what you mentioned) Google has no solution.
  7. Thanks! A lot of great tips. Google Maps gave me the impression that I could get from A to B along the trip without tolls with slightly less ideal routes. Is that the wrong impression? This is my current plan: May 8th TLV->BCN PortAventura & Ferrariworld. AirBNB stay nearby. Travelling on public transport. May 10th BCN->LAX SF Magic Mountain & Knott's. Staying the nights at a friend's place in Studio City. Travelling in a rental car. May 18th LAX->AUS SF Fiesta Texas & SF Over Texas, staying some of the nights at Motel 6's nearby the parks. Travelling in a rental car. May 22-23 Board game convention at DFW. May 24th DFW->CLE ... Jun 8th JFK->BRU Bobbejaanland, sleeping at a friend's place. Travelling with him. Jun 10th BRU>VIE>TLV WIth the "..." section being freeform, where I rent a car for the duration and travel as suits me at the moment, but hopefully getting to most of these parks: Cedar Point, Holiday World, Kings Dominion & Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Hersheypark & Knoebels (I'm sold on it, and not just on the word of mouth here, even the ride selection is to my liking), Lake Compounce & SF New England, and American Dream/Nickelodeon Universe (Yeah, I looked deeper into it, and actually the mix of their main coasters and some of their flat rides is enough of a draw for me to justify the cost). Maybe I'll visit Kentucky Kingdom & Kings Island, Maybe Kennywood. Maybe I'll even do the crazy thing and drive some 9 hours west from Cedar Point to SF Great America & Mt Olympus. I know I won't get to them all due to both the time frame and the budget.
  8. True, but I'd rather spend another day enjoying the rides at either SFMM or at Knott's without spending any more money than to get to San Diego. Their ride selection just doesn't appeal to me enough.
  9. Again, unless credit whoring is another way to say 'to only enjoy the rides', it's not something I engage in. I'm not going on this trip to pile up as many credits as I can. I'm going on this trip to ride the coasters and flat rides that seem the most enjoyable to me. This is practically a bucket list trip for me, though I won't hit up every single one of the coasters I'd love to get to (a bunch of them are in China and Japan anyway). This trip is more than 90% focused on ride experiences, with a willingness to sacrifice a lot of comfort.
  10. Thanks. I looked into KOA, but with prices being around the $50 area, I might as well utilize Motel 6's instead, and that's indeed an option on the table for at least some of the nights. I did really like the idea of starting the road trip from Dallas, which'd let me pick up Silver Dollar City and Holiday World along the way to Cedar Point, but unfortunately renting a car for that long will have me on the edge of my budget, so I'll stick to flying to CLE and starting the road trip from there, after Cedar Point. Time Traveller is a mega draw for me along with Outlaw Run, but fortunately one of those Mack Xtreme Spinning Coasters will be opening in Belgium in the next year or so, and it'll be much easier for me to get there on a future European trip instead. There are several launch (and even multi launch) coasters as well as several RMC's on my itinerary anyway, so I think I'll just have to do without a visit to Silver Dollar City.
  11. I'm not just saying this to be negative, I'm being very honest: if you are serious about living in a car, this is not the forum you should be reading for tips. Places like vandwellerforum.com are where you need to be looking. This lifestyle is more akin to homelessness and will need to be approached as such with people who have tips about how to live out of a vehicle safely. This is not Europe, and at this point the rural US' crime rates aren't much different than that of urban areas. If you're planning to cut corners by flying Spirit from Dallas to points north, you may end up blowing that money anyhow if/when they cancel your flight. just a warning. Be smart and look at all your options w/re: to rental vehicles. Thanks, but the reason I'm asking here rather than in another forum is because the advice I want is more to do with the parks themselves than the specifics of living in a car for part of the trip and the like. Let's take the mention someone gave for SeaWorld San Diego for instance. Do the rides there justify the 3+ hour drive and the ticket cost? I'm sure Sky Rocket II's are fantastic rides, but if I'll indeed visit BG Williamsburg I'll get to ride one of those, so that's redundant (though I've heard the restraints at SeaWorld are better), I loved Mack's Blue Fire, so Manta could be awesome, but it's slower and has no inversions, so not very likely to be as good of a ride, I haven't loved water coasters, so Journey to Atlantis isn't a big draw for me, and Tidal Twister looks nifty, but not enough to justify the trip. (And while Mako may be great, who knows if it'll be open by May). Thanks for the warning about Spirit too.
  12. Fair enough, I'm in that 95% group, though I do know to begin with how intense (in both good and bad ways, but definitely aware of the bad) this trip is, so I wasn't expecting to get thumbs up from everyone when I started the thread, but the focus really is on the added bonus of information that'd be valuable to me and my idea, as you put it. I'll look into camping sites I could stop at and see what kind of solution I can come up with. Probably not the air mattress, but I'm sure I'll find something more comfortable than sleeping in the car. And you're right, my mindset has been the backpacker's one, remaining from my previous trips. Being mobile with a car does afford me better options. I did consider the road trip from DFW option before, but it's too much of a drive and too many extra days to rent a car, such that it would nearly deplete my budget, which is why I gave up on it, but I'll reconsider. Oh, and btw, at least in California I do have a friend's place to stay at.
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