What traffic? SoCal TR 1/2-8 (long)

Look no further than the camp ground.

chris - has Schlitz, will travel. ;)

*** This post was edited by chris on 1/21/2003. ***

Schlitz? Bah. I can provide the GOOD STUFF back at Santa's Lodge...

Note: "Good Stuff" subject to tastes. Guiness qualifies in this author's opinion...

(Hmmm, maybe I better shut up before I get myself in trouble... ;) )

-----------------
--Oat Boy
My page

*** This post was edited by GregLeg on 1/21/2003. ***

Don't worry, Greg...after chris' visit for Solace I'll have him saying "Schli-what?"

Moosh - no domestic beer in our hotel rooms

-----------------
Coaster & Amusement Park Christmas cards available here. NOW ACCEPTING PAYPAL! We ship Priority mail -- Order today and receive your order in 3 business days!

No beer period! Vodka and tonics for everyone!

-----------------
Mike Miller

Intamin Fan says we have to behave. Let's bring this discussion back to coasters. Do you people think I have all day to dick around?

Wow, that Holiday Inn is about a mile from my school. I didn't know anybody EVER stayed there.

*** This post was edited by saviourmachine on 1/23/2003. ***

Stoli Ornaj & tonic, Bass...that's all we'll need ;)

-----------------
Welcome to the New & Improved Coasterbuzz...tomfoolery allowed!

SM: funny, my friend and I stayed at that place for a week and only ever saw one other hotel guest. It was very nice though, clean, recently remodeled, and there was a hot tub...what else do you need?

What else do you need? Stoli Oranj and tonic [with lime]!

-----------------
Welcome to the New & Improved Coasterbuzz...tomfoolery allowed!

What else do you need? That depends on the friend, I suppose.

Internet access is one thing I like to see, but far from a requirement (to steer this back to geekdom)

-----------------
--Greg, aka Oat Boy
My page
"Friendship -- more lasting than love, more legal than stalking."

Sorry I took SO long to arrive, I didn't get a party invitation...strange (well, not really)...so I *crashed*...muwahahaha...dawnmarie313 said:I nearly rear-ended the car in front of me as I ooh-ed and ahh-ed Xcelerator. It IS quite the beautiful tall coaster...at night especially, within the tight confines of the downtown location...with that big Circle K sign... Was sent to the Guest Relations window where I waited almost 30 minutes (behind lots of angry folks) to get my ticket with my CP season pass. They DO have a strange policy there....at every other SF/Busch/Paramount/Universal/even CF...park....hmmm, that's ALL of the chains I've had passes to.....you walk right in with your season pass.....perhaps delayed only momentarily by some illegible scribbling....Then we got in a super-slow line for Ghostrider, waited an hour and 15 minutes. When we finally made it upstairs, noticed that ride ops were moving slower than the 100-year-old Galapagos Tortoises at the San Diego Zoo. do you mean the *live* ones, or those *other* ones... .an insane Ghostride, slightly vicious, but not painful, and with the scariest first drop on a woodie in my experience. Fun! Did you REALLY believe it was ANY better than the SFMM wooodies dawn....whoa, almost *choked* on that one...Waited close to an hour for Perilious Plunge, got strapped in (ouch, but I felt secure), and got very, very wet. VERY wet..VERY *secure*...VERY...WET..SECURE..VERY. Wear dark colors or pack a blanket or an extra shirt or something. Who ya talkin' to, dawn...is this *advice for females* or somethin'...Xcelerator went down with computer problems....you don't say...ROFL. But you did get back....Yay! It’s now 5:30 or so, and we spend the next 90 minutes riding Boomerang, Montezooma’s Revenge (I never realized how much I missed Tidal Wave!), the Tampico Tumbler, and Jaguar......Jaguar is a blast...Monte, Tumbler, Jaguar, and GR would make the beginnings a FINE park just about anywhere...a quick trip to the Santa Monica pier Saturday night to ride the West Coaster, nothing to write home about, but scenic and fun. It's a *credit*...and it IS scenic....get to look at the beach, the ocean, and people weirder than....well...ya know....As it turns out X (boohoohoo), Riddler’s Revenge, Pyschlone, and Ninja are down for the day. Great. However, the park is very nearly empty...empty like in the fantasies you have as a kid (or maybe now) about having an amusement park to yourself. The Friday afternoon when we first got to CA last trip, the park was SO empty, even X rides in like 10 minutes….w00t! Rode the other "adult" coasters twice each (with Flashback! being the noteable exception...ouch) by 3:30pm. Enthusiasts not even born yet will get on that thing before me, LOL…Quick review of some highlights: finally got on a Deja Vu...love it! Quite different from little brother Face/Off...actually thought it was less intense than Face/Off. …well, this version does STOP more often in the middle of the ride…I do like the vertical parts, but is it worth the hassle if you’re considering buying one…Goliath...awesome shady queue, fabulous drop, dizzying helix, lots of people puking when they got off. LOVE that helix….never saw puking though…should I be happy about that or not…oh well, I digress….a LOT S:TE...is it or isn’t it? Who cares...it’s fun...and so loud. Well said…fun, SO LOUD….Revolution and Gold Rusher...beautiful rides! Gold Rusher gets not NEARLY enough props….it IS in a RIDE park, though…SFMM is by far the most beautiful park I’ve been too..so many hills and trees. It’s a mini-freakin’-BGW there dawn…a regular treat for the calf muscles…Was disappointed in the lack of ride op interaction with guests, not once all day did a ride op say anything...and frequently didn’t even hear an auto-spiel. Get on my ride, get off my ride, have a nice freakin’ day here at Six Flags Magic Mountain…Made me miss the crowd a bit...maybe that empty park isn’t so special. It’s a mixed blessing…I’ll let ya know after I hang out on the Dragons for awhile when they reopen…. So anyway, at 3:30, we head back to the car and drive like madwomen to Buena Park (after a quick call to ensure that Xcelerator is running), and get to KBF at 4:45pm, the park closes at 6:00pm. We get in 5 rides on Xcelerator (holy adreneline, true love) and another spin on each Ghostrider, Jaguar, and Montezooma’s Revenge. Sweet, Thelma and Louise take on SoCal traffic and wreak havoc on KBF….that launch IS pretty good, huh… Consoled ourselves with Coronas and mahi-mahi tacos at a rooftop bar. Fish tacos AGAIN dawn…What is this horrific California traffic I keep hearing about? Wait ‘til you get it just once or twice…you will KNOW traffic…I wouldn’t speak that way of something THAT powerful… We pack our bags, check out of the hotel, and call SFMM. X is running. We’re so there. We ride. That’s some crazy stuff...I’m not even sure what to say about it, but let’s just say I liked it. ???Liked it??? After the fish tacos dawn…how could you like it…..oh well….Great TR….perhaps I’ll be MOTIVATED…This is a sad attempt to post thru Word…I may need to edit and try again….please stand by….thanks, it’s been fun…. ***

edit: I tried to fix it several times, came up *snake eyes*....guess I'll need to learn SOMETHING about this whole text formatting crap, huh....;)

*** This post was edited by rollergator on 1/29/2003. ***

My eyes! My eyes! Oh, how they burn....!

-----------------
Welcome to the New & Improved Coasterbuzz...now with 25% more tomfoolery!

Maybe it's better that gator never gets around to those trip reports, after all.

Bill...if you give me your log-in info, I'll edit that post for ya ;)

-----------------
Welcome to the New & Improved Coasterbuzz...now with 25% more tomfoolery!

Well, 1:48 Eastern may not be that late to YOU....;)

Watch it guys, I do have *the big TR* from SRM almost ready to roll.....it seems that transferring it from Word to the post just didn't work.....the BOLDS looked perfect across both pages when I did it in Word....and then THIS happened...;(

But it's good to know ya love me even when I blind you...:)

Bill - I do my TRs in Word and then copy them to C-buzz...ys want me to email you some helpful hints?

Moosh [aka Helouise]

-----------------
Welcome to the New & Improved Coasterbuzz...now with 25% more tomfoolery!

....please DO.....it looks like I need help....(like you didn't see THAT one coming)....but I always though you looked more like Martha Stewart...;)

I'm not blonde [but I have my moments!]

-----------------
Welcome to the New & Improved Coasterbuzz...now with 25% more tomfoolery!

Chipping in.... I will see you at SRM, Dawn! I will moosh you for him, okay?;)
------------------
Jacques Frédéric: "I also am a fan of the American marvel of wood that is Dragster."

got (s)mooshed by my brother (eww...there's a road we haven't been down) last year during his 'one-click' rides...resulting in some minor bruising a slight head engiry witch haz sinse heeld

This reminds me of two funny SRM-related stories in which "mooshing" was involved.

1] SRM 2000, Moosh vs. Jeff King. Jeff and I rode Legend together and he arranged it so I would be on the outside of most of the turns, allowing him to lean into me during heavy laterals. Later that night we were in line to ride Raven and I decided I'd get my revenge. We were all buckled in and as we rolled out of the station I exclaimed, "A ha! Revenge is mine!" Jeff turned to me and said, "Um, no it isn't...you're sitting on the wrong side."

He was right...D'oh!

2] SRM 2001, Moosh vs Mark Rosenzweig. Mark and I sat next to each other on Banshee, having just met in person for the first time while waiting in line [we'd traded emails]. When Banshee was in full-swing I lifted my feet off the floor, let go of the bar, and began sliding back and forth, squishing Mark! Of course we laughed about it, but to this day he refers to that as the "moment he was Mooshed."

So...who will be the next victim?

------------------
Welcome to the New & Improved Coasterbuzz...now with 25% more tomfoolery and new pretty colors!