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More Oakwood Pics: Here you go Elissa fanboys! Looks like the sheep are coaster fans too! The walkback included sheep! I wonder what everone is taking photos of? It was awesome how close we were to the coaster. A highlight on the entire trip was the walkback around Megaphobia, very cool. Train of crazy TPRers! Megaphobia was one of my favorite coasters of the day.

Day 2: Oakwood Oakwood was a fun day. First of all, it is in the middle of nowhere! But a gorgeous nowhere! We had a great day from an hour of ERT on Speed and Megaphobia, lunch and a photo walkback of Megaphobia complete with wild sheep! I think Speed was a thumbs up for most TPRer's. There were lots of cool elements to Speed. It's a loop shot! But once I got over the lift the first time, it was all fun!! The lift was insane! I'll be honest, the lift on Speed scared the crap out of me! TPRer's are ready for their flight on Speed. First up was ERT on Oakwood's new Eurofighter coaster: Speed! Oakwood is a theme park set in the middle of the beautiful Whales countryside. More gorgeous scenery!

Stealth at Thorpe Park in the UK!!!!!! --Eric J

More Coney Beach Pics: And this is where I got my meal from. WTF? My very 1st Fish and Chips meal in the UK. As were Steve and John. Chuck and Karen were tramatized for life from the terrifing scenes inside the Ghost Train! Derek getting a funhouse credit! The outside of the terrifying Ghost Train! We will miss you Coney Beach and all of your charm!

So after Chessington, we took our 4 hour drive to Wales. And as an unexpected treat, we made a stop at Coney Beach Amusement Park. Little did we know how scary this place would be! Let's just say that Coney Beach made me realize how much I take my beautiful local Clearwater/Gulf/Tampa Bay Area beaches for granted! I was able to get in one extra coaster credit. I didn't do the other 2 kiddie coasters mainly because a few individuals broke one of them! A few of us did take in the Ghost Train, which was pretty crapy, but that was it's charm. Coney was scary! --Eric J And sometimes there are some that like to break the poor kiddie coasters! Got to get those kiddie coaster credits too! My only coaster credit at Coney Beach was Megablitz. The floors of the trains were complete with sandbags! Rough and one scary ride! The English landscape was breathtaking and very scenic! Watching TPR DVDs on our 4 hour trip to Wales.

My dark ride buddy! Great dark ride TR Chuck. Can't wait for all of your reports. --Eric J.

More Chessington World Of Adventures Pics: Ultra scary half naked wrestler man! And that concludes the day at Chesington. Next up is Coney Beach-The most beautiful seaside amusement park in the world! J/K The Safari Skyride peoplemover gave great overviews of the park including the zoo area and.... James and me on the Safari Skyride. Without the water fountains working, Rameses Revenge couldn't tourture it's riders. Inside Hocus Pocus you could also find Viagra spells! WTF? Hocus Pocus is a 3D walk through dark/funhouse attraction that was fun. TPRer's waiting for the shortest ferris wheel ride ever! Karen enjoying a senic ride on Toadie's Crazy Cars. Yes, they have a land called Beanoland! The Bubbles Works boat ride was cute except for the part when my group of 4 squeezed into the small boats and got wet!

Hey Catrina! I thought the same thing. On the next trip we will have to meet up and see the sights together. I look forward to hopefully meeting up with you and Ted at Busch and/or Adventure Island next month! --Eric J

Hey Chuck! Yeah the guide was awesome, he made the trip to The Tower so much fun. Thanks for the Haunted Inn photo. I'm glad you were able to recover some of your photos. I look forward to seeing your dark ride TR. I had a blast riding all of those cool and very wierd dark rides with you. Glad you got home ok. I know it's going to take a while for me to get back into my old routine of life. Defintley I will keep in touch, I got to get back to Busch in Virgina sometime. And if you want to go to any Florida park let me know. I'm only 30 minutes from Busch and 90 minutes from Disney, Universal and Sea World! --Eric J

More Chessington World of Adventures Pics: The horseshoe part of the ride was insane! Robb is going to attack the Dragon with his video camera! Lou is all ready to conquer the Dragon! Boy do you spin on this baby! Next up was ERT on one of my favorite coasters of the entire trip: Dragon's Fury.

After my 3 days in London, it was time to meet up with the crazy TPRer's for day one of our amazing UK Parks Adventure. Day one was Chessington World of Adventures. This park surprised me. It was very well themed and the landscaping was one of the best of the trip. This park featured my 100th coaster, Vampire! I enjoyed Vampire a lot. It was very cool the way it went through the forest setting. Some TPRer's getting ready to be bit by the Vampire. The ride and line area were both themed very well kind of like a very pre- Dueling Dragons. The loading area featured a vampire playing a organ. Ist coaster of the trip: Vampire, my 100th coaster! At Chessington, we got ERT (Extra Ride Time) an hour before the park opened on Vampire and Dragon's Fury. The TPRers desend upon Chesington. The Dragon Falls Flume was fun. Tomb Blaster was a pretty good shoot out ride with large sets and theming. Tommy & James are ready for the thrilling powered Runaway Mine Train. Rattlesnake, the first of many wild mouses on the trip. You can't tell from this photo, but this was one of the most elaborate themed wild mouses I have ever been on.

Next up: Day one of the Theme Park Review UK Trip at Chessington World Of Adventures. Stay tuned! --Eric J.

More pics: The weather was gorgeous and hot, but after the museum there was a breeze so I joined the locals and stretched out at one of the local squares/parks and relaxed and took in my beautiful suroundings. The Greek exhibits also rocked! The mummies were very cool. The Egyptian galleries were awesome. The galleries housed many interesting objects and artifacts. The main central area is the Great Court and it is big! One the 3rd day I hit the British Museum. What an amazing place! After the play, I strolled around Piccadilly Circus at night. Kind of like London's version of Time's Square. Lots of lights and excitement. Took in a play, The Mousetrap at St. Martin's Theather on my 2nd night. Fun Agatha Cristie Murder Mystery, the longest running play in London.

More Pics: Tower Bridge had amazing views of the Thames River. The Tower Bridge was huge! The White Tower. The Tower Cathedrial was gorgeous. One of the Kinghts in Armor, was very cool, as was the weapons room. Climbed many winding stairs to the different towers. A Royal guard at the Tower.

What an amazing trip! Thanks to Robb and Elissa for organizing a coaster/theme park dream vacation! Everything from the ERT, extra perks, surprises, and parks were fantastic! You two out did yourselves, thank you so much! I am so glad I was able to meet so many new awesome people. I love my back of the bus peeps - holla! You guys all rock! Here are my trip pics: London, at Chessington, Coney Beach, Oakwood, Alton Towers, Drayton Manor, Pleasureland Southport, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lightwater Valley, Flamingo Land, Pleasurewood Hills, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Joyland and Thorpe Park. There all here! Hope you enjoy. --Eric J The Beefeater or guide told of the many famous executions that took place here. So much history took place here. It was a small village. My favorite part of London was the Tower Of London. I could of spent many hours there. My first English breakfast. Couldn't come to London and not ride and take a picture of a double decker bus! The National Gallery in Trafalgar Sqare was amazing and imense! The London Eye did give spectacular view of The City Of London and Westminster. Being a theme park freak, I couldn't resist riding the big wheel! The London Eye on the Thames River. Big Ben The House of Parliment and Big Ben. The bathroom was super small! The shower blended into the rest of the bathroom which was the size of a closet! What I expected, a pretty small room. Here's my crib for 2 nights: The Carlton Hotel. Belgrave Road, near Victoria Station, where my hotel was. My UK adventure begins!

Great TR Ted, love the captions! You have been busy! It's going to take me forever to get all my UK photos in order! Glad you guys got home ok. It was blast hanging out with both of you. I look forward to hopefully doing a park meet at Adventure Island or Bush next month. --Eric J

Thanks to all the kind send offs for us. I take off in less than 3 hours! UK here I come!!! --Eric J

Anyone remember riding the Baratuba? It is the raft slide that used to be where Wahoo Run is now. It was kind of a wierd slide. You started out in a pool, then was pushed onto the slide by a lifeguard. You would travel down a really wide slide/slick surface with bumps along the way. Towards the end you would arrive in a splash pool, then a lifeguard would push you down the final "plunge" through a really short steep tunnel, then land in the final splash pool. When I was a kid in the mid 80's, my friends and I would always try to loose our tubes before we hit the first splash pool. It was fun until one time, I lost my raft, tried to stand up, then another raft hit me and I did a split. Ok, up until then, I have never been able to do a split and have never done one since. And it was NOT fun!!! : From that point on, I stayed on my raft everytime! Lesson learned!

^ I guess it is still standing. It did take a long time to recover! So maybe the world won't end!

Erik, we will definitly have to meet up sometime. I don't know if the world can take both Eric/Erik Johnsons in the same place and at the same time! The world and universe may be changed forever!!

^Thanks. ^^It is hard to find the entrance to The Runnaway Rapids. You have to go the same way as if you are going on Wahoo Run. Before Wayhoo Run was built, the entrance was through the flumes splash pool, between the 2 smaller slides on the left and the 3 longer slides on the right. It is a lot more of a pain to get on them now.

Took a trip up to Atlanta to ride Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia. It was worth the trip up! Goliath was great, very smooth and even my best friend's wife, Ariadne enjoyed the ride. She was super scared, but in the end, loved it! Here are the pictures: Enjoy! --Eric J Finally, Acrophobia, other than MGM's Tower of Terror this is my favorite drop ride I have ever been on. Ninja and Great American Scream Machine. This sounds cheezy, but the Mindbender is one of my favorite rides in the park. Can you believe it! Deja Vu was actually working! One of my favorite 3 coasters in the park: Superman: The Ultimate Flight. Ariadne is a crazy driver! With hot superheros! With Ariadne, Bugs and Daffy. A rollercoaster mix of Goliath and The Georgia Scorcher stand up coaster. After conquering Goliath, Ariadne is all thumbs up! Goliath towers over the park's skyline!

Even more photos: And finally last but not least, Adventure Island's new slide, Riptide. This was a lot of fun . I went on it a gazillion time! Good addition to the park! The Water Moccasin tube slides. Watchout for the middle one. I didn't even touch the slide, pretty fast! Even though Splash Attack seems like it is geared for kids, my freinds and I could spend hours in there - too much fun! Speaking of back-breaking slides, here is one: The Caribbean Corkscrew. I either hurt my back or feel like I am drowning from all the water that hits you in the face! I don't miss The Tampa Typhoon one bit! I used break my back on that thing! The Gulf Scream minus the Tampa Typhoon.

More Photos: The always fun Calypso Coaster and Aruba Tuba raft slides. It was so nice not to have to fight for a tube! The landscaping is always beautiful, but what else would you expect from Busch! Since it was not crowded, I could actually enjoy the Rambling Bayou. I love the Everglides! At Fabian's Funport, even the kids have their own water park. The Key West Rapids. This slide features 3 different splash pools on the way down to the final pool.

Hey everyone! Went to Adventure Island a few weeks ago before the schools got out here. It was such a great day! No lines at all! I mainly wanted to check out the park's new slides: Riptide. Riptide was a lot of fun and is now one of my favorites in the park. The Gulf Scream looks lonley without the Tampa Typhoon, but I will take Riptide or anything instead of getting bruised on the Typhoon! Thought this trip report would be appropriate since this weekend is typically the kick off of summer. Hope everyone has a fun and safe Memorial Day. Hope you enjoy! --Eric J A water park would not be a water park without a wave pool. At Adventure Island it is called The Endless Surf. Another older area of the park, The Paradise Lagoon water activities pool. The Runnaway Rapids features 5 different flumes that travel by and through waterfalls, caves and lush tropical landscaping. When I was a kid I would spend the whole day on these five flume slides and the now retired Baratuba slide. The oldest slides in the park: The Runnaway Rapids The waterfalls are a lot of fun! Wahoo Run is one of my favorite slides in the park! The family tube-raft slide Wahoo Run