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Hey Shane; Thanks for a great end to another great season. I really liked the videos too. Those are really good helicopter shots. Some Nice footage of lighting also. Again thanks for sharing all this it's great. Dws

Hey Erik; Glad you has some fun in LA area. Nice trip report and great pictures as always. Good seeing you at WCB. Sorry we didn't spend a little more time catching up. But that's what this is for too. I guess I need to get to DCA one of these days for a Black Pepper Popcorn taco. Hope you had a good trip back. See you sometime I'm sure. Dws John.

Ok, Wes what did you learn at Physics day? Did you learn about potential energy vs. kinetic energy? Great update, as usual to an even better event. Again a big thank to Jay Thomas and staff to a much improved MM. Keep it going. It's good to see the park looking so nice. Now I have to start emailing Dan. This may take some time. Dws. HIYAAAA!!

Hey Big Mike; sound like you and Shawn has a good time in Vegas. Looking forward to those pics. I'm John aka Dws_57 pic 51. Really nice meeting you. Looking forward to another year of big mike pics and trips. Hope to see you again sometime. Dws_57

Missed the Canyon Blaster by that much. The evening ERT was a good end to a great day. Thanks to Josh, Shawn, Jasmine for hanging out with me during the day. Sean for the ride down and the umbrella too. Great meeting Big Mike finally. Hope your having fun in vegas. A big thank you to Neal, Jay and Tim. Also Robb and Chris for organizing this day Dws_57 aka John.

Not sold for sale, Today's San Jose Mercury news article. Also with the new coaster plans being delayed again till April before the city council they are making it tough on the park. Plus they are re tracking the grizzly It needed that though. Dws http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11874211?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com

Great Pictures Hanno. Adult hand carts! Mister Rogers that was just great with the full trolley. And the Crazy house. wow what a great park. Even the Vekoma mouse was really fun. Leap the dips was a lot better than I was expecting. (side friction and all) The back seat was great. This was also a x00 coaster for Jahan. But I'll let him talk about that. He could photo shop a sign into that picture. Sauce what else can you say. They need a sauce tour like Hershey's chocolate world. Hope they get the looping coaster put together some time too. DWS

Another Great Trip report Erik. You really captured the some of the craziness that makes these trips so awesome. Plus burning an Ipod With Dave's music. Enjoyed your videos too. (some here some youtube) ^^ nice Avatar James. DWS

Hanno; It can't be said enough. Thank You for the pictures. silver comet sunset. The close ups you got on the first drop of behemoth are great. As well as the action Canadian goose landing shot. You even got a really good shot of Brad and I on whirlwind, at seabreeze. Looking forward to the rest. DWS

Yeah ghetto parks. That place looks really bad. All this time I thought Ninja at SFSL was the only arrow/vekoma ride around. It actually looks scarier than Ninja too. DWS

Hey Bryan; Great trip report. Trees through the trees. Brilliant! really. Had me lmao for quite a while. Pandas must have been hiding though. Keep up the good work. DWS

I was too far back on the bus to hear the puppet show. Instead we had flashing Leis, cameras, I phone, and a slight rave going on back there instead. As well as the spiders. The night was Sauce, Spiders and leis. What else could you want? awesome trip report for an Equally awesome trip. Dws. it's all about the sauce. Flightdeck world tour group!

Better late than never right? Congratulation on Kristen and already riding Intamin rides my how fast they grow Elissa you look very happy or is that exhausted giddiness? DWS

Ok I haven't posted anything in for ever so here's something. see I'm still lurking around here. DWS

Best restaurant/Pasta; Wine Country Tattioria at the Golden Vine Winery @ Disney's CA. Adventure. Disney's best CA resturant. well at least three years ago when I was there. Take the last seating, Desert will arrive with the Electric Parade. Very cool. Best Amusment type food. Surf City Grill at the Santa Cruz Beachboardwalk. Deep Fried Veggies, Huge dounghts, and my personal Fav. Polish Corndog. You have to ask to get one of these, not on the menu. Also hot link corndog and regular corndogs. Hand battered goodness. Bring the tums Also another Vote for Holiday worlds fudge. and Honable mention for Buschs Gardens Williamsburg for the sausages and sour kraut in the Das Festhaus Very tasty. Dws

I Have to work on early on Sunday and can't get any one to trade with me so I will be stuck down here. While you all are having fun up there. Enjoy, and say hello to Tatsu for me. That is a really good flying coaster. POUND IT!! DWS

Last Day on the job here. Start July 10 in a new department. Same Company though. The computer at home the 5 6 and _ keys don't work. So this will be my last post for a while. My home computer had been a piece crap since the day I bought it. Stupid thing. Hey HP Dws_57 ....

No longer a Rumor Looks like a done deal Cedar fair buying all the Paramount parks, Heres part ot the story.

Evidently we left to early, This was done on Thursday night. Pairs Hilton, Matthew Perry, and Seth Green to name a few. Also has some of the Helicopter footage, from earlier in the day (in the first 2 minutes). The 300k dosen't seem to be working. the 56/150k is its over 11 mins. Enjoy, Dws. http://www.prnewswire.com/broadcast/24090/consumer.shtml

Hey all; First off a BIG THANK YOU to Robb and Elissa for all you did for us. Great time for shure. Thanks Chris, for lunch and a place for my gear. (we didn't realize that sfmm was including lunch, so Moose Buger). I tend to ramble when I'm tired hope I didn't bore you too much. Good seeing some familiar faces and meeting new one's. I left MM around 3:30 pm made it home at 10pm. Decided I was awake enough to make it, after I got on the road. Tatsu is really a great Flyer. (I've only ridden 3, 1 other B and M, though). Front has great views, the bottom of the first hill in the front is good Nice push there. A little longer view of the tower on the roll too. The back is really good everywhere. Pretty intense through the pretzel loop. Fun Coaster really rounds out the SFMM collection. My .02 and wroth every penny. DWS

Hey All Pulling out of Felton now see you in 6 hours or so. let the insanity begin! Dws....

Great trip report as usual Julie, Couple good chuckles there. Pepsi or not (I'm not a pepsi fan either) any park that has drinks for less than $2 bucks a cup is ok in my book. Dws.

Just for fun the TRIP top list; Coaster with the most leg room; Phantom’s revenge, Kennywood Coaster with the least leg room; tie Son of Beast, PKI Wildcat, Williams Groove & Cedar Point Parks with Reasonable priced food; Holiday World, Kennywood, Williams Groove. Friendliest staff; Holiday World, P. Kings Dominion (Special mention to the Beast crew. PKI) BGWB. and Williams Groove. Funniest thing to do with staff; Playing Charades with the Mr Freeze crew. SF St Louis or Watching the staff laugh at you for riding the Grizzly at PKD 5x in a row. Park that allowed the most rerides with out going around if no one was waiting; PKD Park with the best selection of dark rides; Playland Rye NY. (no shooters though) Park with best chocolate and Plastic cows; Hershey park and Chocolate world. (duh) Most forcefull launch coaster (I actually got to ride); Hypersonic xlc, PKI Best all around launch coaster; Storm runner, Hershey park. also best monorail. distant second Volcano, PKD Best head chopper helix; Mamba WOF (ok so it’s the only one too.) Best Motorcycle parking; Holiday World, SF St. Louis, (both have reserved spots in front) Friendliest park goers; (or easiest to strike up a conversation in line with strangers) Holiday world, Kennywood SF St Louis and SF America (shocked me too.) The only Batman clone that turns right (first hill); SF St Louis. (did you Know that?) Best theme park web site; RCD opps theme park review home of the Rodents too. A Big Thank you to Robb and Elissa for hosting this and putting up with all us crazy people. To the rest of you see you in a park or around the forum sometime soon. DWSkunks.

Remember to get your earplug if you stay in the cabins at the Maples. Trains all night with a crossing right across the way. Two longs and a short on the horn before every crossing. Warm night windows open Fan going all night. The Trek home. This will just be a quick some up for you with a pics. Tuesday June 29, 513 miles; Stopped outside of Iowa City. Taking Interstate 80 all the way back. Will be a lot faster than the smaller roads I have been using. Pretty smooth day other than a lot of traffic on the east end of Illinois, after getting through that pretty good time made. Wed June 30, 649 miles. Hit heavy rain early on in Iowa but only occasional showers after crossing in to Nebraska. Strange how It can pour on one side of the freeway and be bone dry on my side. That was nice. Riding about 12 to 13 hours a day now. Gaining time coming back is nice. Made it into Sydney NE. For the night . Temp drops fast as the sun sets a the higher elevation. Ever notice how the motels at the freeway cost twice as much as the ones one to two miles in. Stayed at a little family run place called stay for less. Very nice rooms and reasonable. Econo lodge at the freeway was twice as much. Atm card dies and I’m down to $22 dollars cash. Well at least the credit card is still working. Guess I will be charging a lot more now. Thursday 672 miles Cooking with gas (as they say) made all the way to West Wendover, I stayed on the Utah side. (Borders with NV.) Cool day windy too but no rain. Very enjoyable scenery. A very nice day in the saddle. Wyoming Travel through the highest point on I80 and cross the Continental divide twice. (Look at I80 on a map) That’s so weird, where does the water go that lands in the middle of those two places? Friday June 31, 687 Miles. Still quite a bit of green in the high desert coming through NV. Still some snow on Donner Pass in the Sierras. Nice sunny day lots of open space to view. I liked this section of road also. Hit some traffic in Sacramento. Turn south on I5 Bid farewell to I80. Get back in time to meet with a few friends in Campbell for dinner. Then over hwy 17 and back home. Well this concludes the trip here is a few random pics from the way home. Enjoy. Dwskunks Where to next? That is the question. Opps heres a sunset shot from Iowa it's out of sequence but a nice one to end on. Classic case of Helmet head. Almost home crossing Donner Pass. The Snow still at Donner Pass Sunset on the salt flats outside of Salt Lake City Behind the gas station in WY Not a John Deere though. At the Highest point in WY stands this statue to Abe Lincoln for the Lincoln Hwy route 30. 80 pretty much sits on top of most of whats left. Old tracktor I guess there alot of these in the midwest. I live a sheltered life in CA. Avoiding some rain in Iowa I stop for gas at ???? The View From Cabin 13 Note how close the train is. Get some free earplugs from the front desk.

More From the Point The bugs get you on your way back to the maples But after the suns sets on Mantis One of the bugs try to take my motorbike. MF in the last turn Ok so I'm stating the obvious. Corkscrew over the midway The Fish say Feed me Semore. Or was that a Plant opps. Blue Streak and I, well blue's closed for now but will reopen shortly. I on the ohter hand well we won't go there. Gemini Racing Sunday Blue wins Monday Ornage wins. They change it and the same train wins all day long. Did you know that?