PKI Jizzman Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 Good news everyone! This trip report has nothing to do with Kings Island! I took two days to go down south with my aunt and uncle to Beech Bend, their cabin, a scary cave with bats and cave crickets, and some random farm! With Jennies! I think it's a female donkey... Anyways! It was about a 3.5 hour drive, leaving at 12:30 to get there before 5....but we forgot about the time zone change and got there at 3PM instead of 4! So to kill some time, we stopped at Godfather's pizza. Eh, I've gotten ahead of myself, I'll tell it with the pictures! Mmm.....B&M....always a nice sight. Hey Jahan! Down here in Kentucky the Frozen Cokes come free with a meal purchase! Gotta love that Southern hospitality... Ah, after about 3 miles of country roads, you drive up this little hill to finally see.... This nice little park with a massive coaster dominating the skyline. Dominating, yup. You like it when I say that? Beech Bend Park's Holiday of lights. Open until January 5th from 5PM to 10PM CST. Mmm...it's taunting me, now. So we pull up to the gates around 4:15 and ask this woman if we can walk around the park until it opens. She said no it opens at 5. But we had a funny little conversation: "Sorry, hun the park doesn't open until 5. But...back in town there's some shops and....TWO WALMARTS!" - Woman "TWO WALMARTS?!" - Me "Yeah! And you can find a discount coupon in either of 'em!" "Ah, cool! How crowded will it be?" "Well, on a week night like this it might be abit crowded. Usually about four or five cars line up!" "Alright...we'll go get that discount." And so I drive back into the town and get lost abit. Find this walmart and there is a ONE dollar off coupon. But I had to buy something to get the coupon. So I spend a dollar on candy and 14 for admission. I get lost again looking for the park and eventually find directions. Mr. Dallas Jones sure loves his 2 miles of lights. If you found Rudolph, email Daniel for a sneak preview of the new C.U.N.T. episode! Christmas isn't about presents or friends and family....it's all about little 5 lbs 8 oz baby Jesus. Alright, I've gone through the 12 days of Christmas (Awesome job on that TPR version, Flipdude!) Random trees, long messages I can't read, and a freaking maze the drive through! Get me outa here!!!! Se we almost drive out of the park because there is no directions or people telling you where to go. Acually, they told us to turn off the headlights.....so then you wouldn't be able to see the little arrows! Well, eventually you park in the race way and a tram waits for people to get in. TOO LONG. So I bolt off in the park. Ah, an empty station! It's been two months without a coaster, and it's great to hear that lift chain runnin'. Mmm...Kentucky Rumbler. But wait, the station is still empty. It's 5:15 and there's no one here! No one in the station. Lift chain running. Lights on, I was even able to get the restaint up! There was really NO ONE there! So I walk out and look around the park for a minute, then come back and magically a ride op is there. Watch the video if I get it up. Me and Mike head for the back seat! Wow, is that me wiping a tear from my eye? Probably, it was a damn good coaster. Hey, check out the wear-whatever-you-want uniform the ride op is wearing! Yup it's dark out. And about 45 degreese. It's one coaster experiance I won't forget! The chick on the right asked about my hat. She called it a 'toboggan' and called me a 'Buckeye' because I'm from Ohio. Oh you Kentuckians. Did I mention it's dark? Hi, I like roller coasters at GCI makes. GIMME MORE WOOD!!!! Beech Bend also has lights, music, and movies around the park. It's quite nice. And also has other coasters. Isn't it good this one is closed? (The Pinafari) Only in Kentucky.... More coming!
Coasterlvr_nc Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 Nice new shirt! Beech Bend looks like a neat little park that i need to visit sometime, did you ride Scat 2 bychance?
PKI Jizzman Posted December 30, 2007 Author Posted December 30, 2007 EDIT: Gryff, I didn't even see the Scat 2, Dark ride haunted house, or the Wild Mouse! I really looked all over to try to find them! Maybe they were taken down for the offseason/winter? Over across the pond, they have this amazing ride. I've heard some Midwest Trippers claim this to be their new favorite drop ride.....and I had no clue how this could be better than Drop Zone at KI..... You may not be able to tell, but I am completely out of my seat. First off, the thing above your head is preventing you to see how high up your are. And second, the drop is so abrupt and the harnesses are so crappy, you can move them 4 inches off you. Your body is really out of that seat. It probably made Terrance make that WHEEN sound. BEST drop ride I have been on!!! After my awesome Shock Drop rides, I ran into some lost family members! Power Surge....oh, how I wanted to ride it. But it was closed. More pretty lights... Hell, I'll pay three bucks to wait a few minutes to ride this fantastic coaster! If this was at some other park, the wait would probably be 30-45 minutes easy! OMG POV. Nah, go watch Erik's; it's kick ass. LOL. This awesome nerf rocket launcher. Go ahead, instert your rocket polishing joke in here for me. I should have got this for Casey so he can put it up on his wall when his bar opens. Every bar has one of these! Rumbler Station. Ya'll ready to rumble? My favorite wooden coaster hands down. Sorry Thunderhead. And so that concludes the theme park part of my TR. Now is the "Kentucky Adventure" part. So if you're here for the coaster pics....you can go back now. It's the end of that world as we know it....it's the end of the.... Hah, no. It was really fun shooting this gun. It's a .22 or something like that for all the gun enthusiasts. I shot the Mtn. Dew can 34 ft.! Mike was impressed. So this is the creek you need to cross to get to the cabin. It's rained alot since last night. Here we are...in the middle of a rising creek... So...my uncle decided it would be fun to drive the two wheel drive Mercury Mariner through it. Until we went to deep and had to go back. Kinda stupid but fun. Only he would do that... Well, we went into the woods and to a friend's private property because there is a cave. Not a touristy stt up, already cleared path guide, lit up cave. We spelunked for about 10 minutes. There were bats, spiders....and....CAVE CRICKETS! One jumped on my head and that was the point to turn around and head out. Farm across the street. A female donkey called a Jenny! They HATE 'yotes and keep the cows safe! DONKEYS SAVE LIVES PEOPLE! They looked abit angry. A group of nice horsies! And a nice country side picture to end this TR. Thanks for reading! I'll try to get a few videos up.
Coasterlvr_nc Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 ^ It might not have been lit up at all. I honestly have no idea tho. Its too bad you did not get stuck in that river, that would have made for an entertaining video ohh well, perhaps next time?
haux Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 I totally agree about the drop ride. I didn't ride the one at Beech Bend, but I rode the one at Castles 'n' Coasters. It's totally sick. You hit it right on the head. You can't see where the top is, and you just drop. No wait. No way of knowing when you're near the top. It's just a drop. It's the best drop ride I've ever been on. Oh, and Kentucky Rumbler's pretty freaking good too.
ginzo Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 I thought about going down to Beech Bend's Christmas thing, but I worried about it being too cold. Not to mention the coaster will run a lot better when it's warm. Oh well, no Kentucky Rumbler for me in 2007. I was hoping for some Mammoth Cave pictures here.
PKI Jizzman Posted December 30, 2007 Author Posted December 30, 2007 Well, Ginzo....I forget my camera! I have no idea if this cave even had a name, it was just on a friend's private property. There were some really narrow parts and it was just me, my uncle, and two flashlights. You don't know what total darkness is until you sit in a cave with no lights on. It's pretty scary. You can see NOTHING. Put your hand up to your face and you can't see it. I have a few pictures on my phone....but they can only stay there
Coasterlvr_nc Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 ^ ohh i know what its like, its pretty creepy but awesome at the same time because you cannot see anything whatsoever!
Tanks4me05 Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 Over across the pond, they have this amazing ride. I've heard some Midwest Trippers claim this to be their new favorite drop ride.....and I had no clue how this could be better than Drop Zone at KI..... You may not be able to tell, but I am completely out of my seat. First off, the thing above your head is preventing you to see how high up your are. And second, the drop is so abrupt and the harnesses are so crappy, you can move them 4 inches off you. Your body is really out of that seat. It probably made Terrance make that WHEEN sound. BEST drop ride I have been on!!! I keep trying to tell people that A.R.M. Drop Towers kick EVERY other drop tower right on their sorry little butts, but no one listens! FINALLY someone listens! A fun way to make the airtime even more extreme: look down when you near the top (and are dropping as well) It's freaking insane. I tried that at Cypress Gardens (never went to Beech Bend before) and the airtime was almost too much for me. Almost. EDIT: Dang, you shot a Luger? Lucky. (Standard issue pistol for the Germans in WWII.)
MagicMountainMan Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 ^We have one of those that comes every year for our annual fair, and man, those things are amazing! I have to agree, the most airtime ever! And the pod goes up so slow it really adds to the anticipation. Great trip report! Is Beech Bend right outside of Louisville?
PKI Jizzman Posted December 30, 2007 Author Posted December 30, 2007 MMM - Beech Bend is in Bowling Green, KY. It's about an hour and a half south of Louisville. Tanks - Yeah, I'll have to try that. I just tried the arms out and legs out trick. IMO, the best way to drop is being relaxed. Arms out above and beside your thighs, and legs just hanging.
kraken613 Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 Have you ridden Thunderhead at night? It makes it even better. A whole lot better. Its a whole different ride. I was also supprised how much air I was getting on it yesterday because it was pretty cold.
PKI Jizzman Posted December 31, 2007 Author Posted December 31, 2007 Yeah, but it was a quick visit to the park since the rest of the family wanted to go horse riding or hiking or something.....I do want to visit Dollywood at night.
FLIPDUDE Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 Hey man, awsome TR! Made me miss Beech Bend a little. And hurray! I got an awsomelittle shoutout!
PKI Jizzman Posted January 3, 2008 Author Posted January 3, 2008 I tried to be abit clever when writing this TR. I'll put up some more shots of Rumbler when I get home.
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