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I tugged the seat belt tighter, eyeing him sideways. A coaster connoisseur, I got it — but did this free bird understand that this was barely Day 1 of my wooden coaster tour across Pennsylvania? That the Keystone State was littered with the things (15 operating wooden coasters, to be exact — more than any other state, according to the Roller Coaster Database) and I needed time to adjust? My plan was to baby-step my way through 13 of them over the next four days, eventually working my way up to the intense new Ravine Flyer II, which opened two months ago at Waldameer Park in Erie, Pa.
Read more and see video from The New York Times.