Your plans for 2004

Well , in April or May i'll go to Dollywood with my school , and if they decide to go to Six Flags , I'll go with my friends anyway. In June I'll go to CP on a Family trip , but nothing else.

Those are the only set things , but I hope to go to SFOG, it's waterpark, Dollywood's Waterpark , and possibly, possibly hoping to get to Carowinds for the First Time.

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Still Waiting for College road Trips....

My goal for 2004 season is to hit some new parks. Parks I havent been to yet. I need to add some new steel and wooden coasters to my list. Cedar Point, Hershey Park are on the returns for 2004.

(1) Dollywood (2) Celebration City (3) Six Flags Great Adventure (4) Dorney Park (5) Paramounts Kings Dominion (6) Busch Gardens Williamsburg (7) Six Flags America.

So those are the parks I would like to hit for the 2004 season.

Airfare is already booked for WDW/IOA first week of Feburary.

We'll open CP in May.

The plans are in the works for a two week trip east with a stops at KW, Knoebels, Hershey, Dorney, PKD, BGW, SFA, Morey's, SFGadv, LC, SFNE, SFDL, CLP, and possibly some of the other small parks that I missed last trip out there.

SFGAm either early or late in the season.

A couple trips to MiA because we'll be driving past.

A weekend trip to IB somewhere during the summer.

Coastermania in September (that sounds wierd!).

And the obligatory closing of CP with SFWoA on the Saturday before.

Of course, some of this may change if I can talk my better half into that ECC trip!

I definitely be hitting the "local" parks early spring. GAdv., Dorney, Hershey, SFA, SFNE, maybe LC or KG.

Also, depending on where I can find a summer job (Boston or SF) I'll be at SFNE or SFMW every weekend or so.

PPP is, once again, a top priority.

My plans for 2004 are centered around local parks and their new coasters, such as Lakemount/DelGrosso's, Rye Playland, Hershey, and Clementon Lake for Tsunami. Six flags parks around the area (SFA, SFGadv., SFNE), Seaside Heights, Conneaut Lake Park.

I would also like to visit other farther parks such as PKI, Dollywood, SFOG, and maybe even CP if time and money permit. There are a few small parks around that I would like to get to (Idlewild, Silvia Beach, Ocean City, MD) that I never visited. I'll see what happens.

The usual: PKI (home), SFKK, Cedar Point, SFWOA

Return to: Holiday World, and possibly SFGAm and Indiana Beach

Want to add most: PKD, BGW, SFA, Kennywood

If time, money allow, I may also visit Idlewild, Conneaut Lake, Knoebel's Hersheypark, Dorney Park, SFDL, SFStL.

Some of my trips I plan to include some sightseening and/or sporting events in cities like Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC.

Well, after having a big year coaster wise in 2003, I will be cutting back drastically in 2004. The main reason for that (other than just financial issues) is my wife and I will be having our first child in March. :) So that will change a lot of things in our lives!

However, plans are still set for my first trip to Hershey in mid May, which will include HersheyPark of course! My wife has been to Hershey before, but not HP, so that will be new for her as well. My sister in law will probably come along to help with the baby.

Outside of that, there won't be a lot of other trips. I will make a few trips out to CP since I renewed my Season Pass, but my wife will probably only join me on one of those trips. We also hope to make a trip to SF:WOA in late August like we did this past year, and this time bring my wife's family with us.

That's pretty much all that I know of right now for 2004. As situations present themselves that might change, but with the big change in our lives, nothing's for certain. (I already had to give up a trip to Houston in July for the All Star Game, and would've visited Six Flags Astroworld while I was there. :( )

Another reason for holding back is to save for what looks to be an awesome year in 2005. We are going to be going to SoCal with my family, and it will the first time for both of us to go down there. That will of course include trips to KBF, and SF:MM, as well as DCA probably. We are also planning a Pennsylvania swing where I will visit DP, KW, and Knoebels for the first time, and maybe HP again. So 2004 will be lighter in anticipation of a big 2005. *** Edited 12/31/2003 11:30:50 PM UTC by DILinator***

A good chunk of my coastering this year is going to come by means of a single trip in the summer. My family's planning a trip to Myrtle Beach, so instead of going down with them a couple friends and I plan on driving the "scenic route" and hitting every park possible from northern Ohio to South Carolina. It's still in the development stage, but here's the rough plan:

Kick off with CP the day before we leave, then head through PA hitting Kennywood, Knoebels, Hershey, and Dorney. After Dorney, we head into NJ for SFGadv., then down to SFA. From there, we continue south to the Virginia parks, PKD and BGW. After the first leg of the trip, we head into MB for a day or two and hit the Pavilion and Family Kingdom. After that, the return trip consists of stops at Carowinds and PKI. That line up totals 13 parks and 109 coasters, so I'm hoping to get everything figured out because it should be a pretty good time.

I'm also planning on the usual 20-30 visits to CP. *** Edited 12/31/2003 11:40:49 PM UTC by mantis man***

I'll be hitting the usuals less frequently, with more trips to parks I haven't visited in a year or two.

So far the park list looks like this:
Solace trip - Knotts, SFMM, DLR
Dollywood, Carowinds, SFoG
PKD, SFA, BGW
Cedar Point, SFWoA
SFGAm, Big Chief's, Valleyfair
PCW, Marineland, SFDL, the small PA parks
Hershey, GAdv, Clementon, Morey's, SFNE, Lake Compounce
SDC, CC
Orlando/Tampa parks
SFMW, PGA
Lakeside, SFEG
LLake (if it opens), PKI, SFKK

Edit - I forgot Kennywood. Stupid park ;)

I'm also considering a trip to Europe which would change that schedule around alittle bit. That ECC trip looks really tempting, especially since I had to cancel ECO at last minute.

Travel is good :)

*** Edited 12/31/2003 11:42:22 PM UTC by rOLLocOASt***

Oh yeah. I almost certianly take at least one trip to Clementon to check out the new S&S. It's even closer to me than GAdv. is.

Not much, since I'm not exactly rolling in the bling bling.

Six Flags o Georgia for sure.
Cedar Point
Hersheypark
Magic Mountain
Knotts

Hershey is a given. I'll have to start the cardio so I can beat everyone to Storm Runner:) If you've never been to HP, it's a really long walk (or run) to the station from the front gates. I will go to SFA, even though I don't think they're getting anything new (time will tell). It'll be nice to actually ride the coasters instead of watching them while working. And since I'll have the SFA pass, I'll probably make the annual pilgrimage to SFGadv., another park that probably won't add anything, but is fun to go to nontheless. Another ride on Drop Zone at PKD wouldn't be bad, and I'll have to redeem myself on one of those Scooby Doo rides. The big mystery for me (and everyone else), is whether BGW is worth visiting again ("What's in the box?!" , "7" reference for you) since I've been there many times before. Once again, time will tell.

Let me join Sarah Jackson as one of the peeps hitting the Caribbean next year. I'll be heading to Jamaica (no coasters there since I was there last) I am also trying to do the European tour (9 countries in 2 weeks) thang...I am trying to do all the things I wanted to do. As for mainland plans, hoping to hit the florida parks, cedar point, kings island, indiana beach, and the california trio.

Winter Break:
Jeeper's - Olathe, Camp Snoopy (MOA), Tan-Tar-A's new indoor waterpark at Lake of the Ozarks

Spring Break:
Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney-MGM Studios, Universal Studios Orlando, Islands of Adventure, Blizzard Beach

Summer:
Worlds of Fun, Oceans of Fun, Holiday World, Silver Dollar City, Celebration City, Six Flags St. Louis, Hurricane Harbor St. Louis Adventureland, Big Surf, White Water Branson

MiGQuest:
Six Flags Great America, PKI, Cedar Point, Dollywood, TBA.

Still planning other trips. Was planning on going to SRM, but since that got cancelled :( guess I won't. Might try to go to PPP if I'm not too busy that time of the year, but since I will be a grad assistant at Mizzou next fall, I might not be able to get away.

Planning wedding and choosing what park in america to go to for the honeymoon, as I live in England it's quite a decision!

I will deffinatly hit up my Home Parks of Dlr, Knott's and Sfmm. Beside from that nothing is set in stone.

Some Possiblities:

- . CP, Sfwoa, and Kennywood were parks I was going to get to in 2002, but didn't make it. :( Maybe or maybe not Coaster Con XXVII

-Sfog. I have relatives in Atlanta, so I could visit them and go to Six Flags. If at all possible, I would like to visit Dollywood, sence it has changed a lot sence I was there last. It would also be nice to get to Carowinds and Visionland.

-PPP. I've wanted to go to that event for a little while now, especially after I went to Knoebel's for the first time.

I plan on trying to get out to Cedar Point again and riding all the coasters again. Still love that launch and twisting drop of Top Thrill Dragster. Then, since I live here in NYC, go back to Six Flags Great Adventure, Hurricane Harbor, Dorney Park and Wild Water Kingdom, and finally Hershey Park.

As for non-coaster things, finishing my 11th grade year of High School while working on my solo album. Look out for me soon!

Heading up to SFGadv! I went in 2002, but now I wanna ride Superman since the one @ SFoG broke down on me when I was down there.

^You're not missing much.

Well, 2003 was a record year for us park wise. We did about 20 trips to CP, plus MiA, PKI, Marineland Canada (not what I'd call a park, just keeping the wifey happy while in Niagara Falls), and just got back from IOA.
We renewed our season passes for CP, and bought PKI season passes, so CP, MiA and PKI are givens. We are planning a June trip to Toronto, so likely we'll do PCW.
Wifey has a family reunion in August in Cali, if we go we'll likely swing by KBF.
Should we make the effort to go up to PGA if we have time?
We're looking at going to WDW in the fall - haven't been since 2001, and didn't have time over the christmas break.