Your longest and most grueling coaster tour?

We did 8 parks in 10 days in June. The video can be found here. :) We were going to add in Kennywood, but we were severely rained out, so we decided to make SFWoA a two day stop. We planned our trip to end with Coaster Mania and BeastBuzz.

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Rideworld

MIDWEST MAYHEM: I just recently returned from Camp Reject summer camp. Three friends, 24 parks, 100+ coasters, 14 days and 4650 miles. We managed to hit(in order) Kennywood, CP, Timbersfest, Santas Village, Melrose Kiddieland, Indiana Beach, Sf Great America, Little A-Merrik-a, Big Chief, Riverview Park, Valleyfair, Camp Snoopy, Arnold's Park, Adventureland, World's of Fun, Silver Dollar City, Celebration City, Bell's, Frontier City, Sf over Texas, Sandy Lake, Magic Springs, Sf St. Louis, and Holiday World. It was the most exhausting trip I've done yet. I will hopefully post a TR in the near future.

Jonathan

Last Year I went on my first big coaster excursion. It started at CBCon last year at PKI (and LeSourdsville Lake ;) ), and within the following week I hit KW, DP, HP, SFGAdv, SFA.

The hardest part was staying awake while driving from park to park. after I got to each destination, it was like adrenaline really kept me going. But as soon as I got home, it was like...the best sleep I ever had!!
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RollerCoasters aren't my whole life... they just make my life whole

Elizabeth, isnt Lesourdsville Lake awesome???

My craziest coaster trip was last august. In 5 days I went to SFWOA, Cedar Point, PKI, Lesourdsville and Holiday World. After holiday world on friday, we had 750 miles to drive home, with NO parks to stop at! I tried to convince my dad to take a layover at Kennywood, but he said no. Something about having to work to support our family...

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"AHHH!! Oh wait, we didnt drop yet"

PKI, BGW, PKD, Washington DC (3 Days), SFGav, DP, HP, KW, SFWOA, CP All driven in 14 days.

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Why?

Most grueling? Most likely the weeklong trek from St Louis to Boston & back. In it we covered SFSL, HW, SFKK, PKI, SFWOA, WL, SFDL, SFGE, SFNE, LC, HP, CP, IB. It was intense and we actually slept at an Ohio rest area on the overnight trek from Hersheypark to Cedar Point.

Hardest? The 6 day solo trip through California's coasters. (Luckily several Buzzers met up with me to show me their hometown parks.) That trip included PGA, SFMW, SCBB, SFMM, DL, Mission Beach, KBF, and a few roadside coasters. Great fun but better with a buddy, indeed.

But ANY coaster ride (even solo) is better than NO coaster rides!

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"You have to scale a lot of lift hills to coast easily..."

Jason

Wow, Jason, I haven't seen you posting around here for a while! How you doin'?

Anyhoot, to add to the thread, I think my craziest trip (I haven't had many of those, lol) was the ECO, just given the amount of time we spent on the road and how many parks we did.

But I think most of my trips (hell, ALL of them?) are considered crazy. I mean I've taken a one day trip (left at 7am) to Holiday World from Atlanta, GA before. I've taken a one day trip to Holiday World and a separate one day trip to SFStL from Chicago before (both over 400 miles each way). One of the craziest trips miles-driven-in-shortest-amount-of-time wise was probably last years September CP/LC/SFNE/SFGAd trip where I drove 3,366 miles in about four days.

And then I'm assming my 5,775 miles in 10 days Northwest Trip ( http://www.coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=32855 ) might give it a run for its money! :)

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Top Thrill Dragster -- The most intense, unbelievable, and spectacular fifteen seconds on any coaster, anywhere, ever.

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Phyter said:
Some friends and I are doing nine consecutive days in August hitting all of the major southern and central California parks including Magic Mountain, Knotts, Disneyland, Canifornia Adventure, Santa Cruz Boardwalk, Paramounts Great America and Marine World. Plus anything else we can squeeze in. Trouble is I have no idea how I'm going to survive it. :)

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I did that exact same trip two years ago and is still the longest but not grueling trip I've ever taken. I hope to do it again next year.

Only thing is I went towards the end of June and the parks were so dead that my friend and I did everything we wanted to by mid-afternoon.

X Factor

Let's see, first you get a Penske truck with a 25' box, load it with everything that you own and head west. That's what Belmont Babe and I did back in 2000. We flew back to P'burgh for KennyKon (Monsoon on the Mon), did Idlewild and Waldameer. Then with the loaded truck started our two week odessey. First stop was Kings Island, followed by Kentucky Kingdom. From there we headed to Worlds of Fun. Colorado was our next stop, hitting the attractions in the Colorado Springs area.From there we pointed the truck southwest towards Phoenix and Castles and Coasters. From there to San Diego. Now some of you are probably saying "you missed a whole lot of stuff!" Not on this trip. We had done a car trip the previous year, on a different route, hitting a completely different group of parks. What made this trip more grueling was the mode of transportation. The truck is the largest you can rent without a CDL.Comfortable it is not. Got used to eating at truck stops. Had to do a fair amount of research to insure that where we stayed overnight had parking sufficient to handle the truck. Had to park where they put the buses at both the motels and amusement parks. Still, it was unique experience we don't regret.
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