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2017 TRAVELS:
01.01 - Legoland Florida
01.01 - Boggy Creek Airboat Ride
01.01 - Coca Cola Orlando Eye
01.01 - Ripley's Odditorium Orlando
01.02 - Kennedy Space Center
01.02 - Fun Spot America - Orlando
02.11 - St. Louis Zoo
03.19 - Silver Dollar City's Spring Ride Days
03.26 - Six Flags St. Louis's Opening Weekend
03.28 - Kemah Boardwalk
03.28 - Galveston Island Pleasure Pier
03.29 - Space Center Houston
03.30 - Sea World San Antonio
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas' Mardi Gras Festival
04.01 - Six Flags over Texas
04.09 - Silver Dollar City's Festival of Wonder
04.13 - Worlds of Fun's Opening Day
04.20 - Gateway Arch
05.06 - Worlds of Fun's BBQ and Brews Fest
05.29 - Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ
05.31 - Six Flags Great America
06.23 - Hurricane Harbor St. Louis
06.23 - Six Flags St. Louis' Mardi Gras Festival
06.25 - Oceans of Fun
06.30 - Silver Dollar City's Star Spangled Summer Festival
07.04 - Camden Park
07.05 - Busch Gardens Williamsburg
07.06 - Kings Dominion
07.06 - Six Flags America
07.07 - Dorney Park
07.07 - Knoebels
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Adventure Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Mariner's Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Surfside Pier
07.09 - Six Flags Great Adventure
07.09 - Six Flags Off Road Safari
07.10 - Hersheypark
07.11 - Kings Island
08.05 - Holiday World
08.05 - Splashin' Safari
08.13 - Indiana Beach
09.23 - Silver Dollar City's Fall Festival
10.30 - Six Flags St. Louis' Fright Fest
10.28 - Worlds of Fun's Halloween Haunt
11.18 - Silver Dollar City's An Old Time Christmas
11.24 - Worlds of Fun's Winterfest
11.25 - Six Flags St. Louis' Holiday in the Park
12.02 - EPCOT
12.03 - Magic Kingdom
12.04 - Disney's Animal Kingdom

Spring Break 2018 - Disneyland/California Adventure, Universal Studios Hollywood, Legoland California, Sea World San Diego, Knott's Berry Farm, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Santa Monica Pier

SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE now posted: HERE




SIX FLAGS OFF ROAD SAFARI now posted: HERE

[chittlins]

2017 TRAVELS:
01.01 - Legoland Florida
01.01 - Boggy Creek Airboat Ride
01.01 - Coca Cola Orlando Eye
01.01 - Ripley's Odditorium Orlando
01.02 - Kennedy Space Center
01.02 - Fun Spot America - Orlando
02.11 - St. Louis Zoo
03.19 - Silver Dollar City's Spring Ride Days
03.26 - Six Flags St. Louis's Opening Weekend
03.28 - Kemah Boardwalk
03.28 - Galveston Island Pleasure Pier
03.29 - Space Center Houston
03.30 - Sea World San Antonio
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas' Mardi Gras Festival
04.01 - Six Flags over Texas
04.09 - Silver Dollar City's Festival of Wonder
04.13 - Worlds of Fun's Opening Day
04.20 - Gateway Arch
05.06 - Worlds of Fun's BBQ and Brews Fest
05.29 - Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ
05.31 - Six Flags Great America
06.23 - Hurricane Harbor St. Louis
06.23 - Six Flags St. Louis' Mardi Gras Festival
06.25 - Oceans of Fun
06.30 - Silver Dollar City's Star Spangled Summer Festival
07.04 - Camden Park
07.05 - Busch Gardens Williamsburg
07.06 - Kings Dominion
07.06 - Six Flags America
07.07 - Dorney Park
07.07 - Knoebels
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Adventure Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Mariner's Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Surfside Pier
07.09 - Six Flags Great Adventure
07.09 - Six Flags Off Road Safari
07.10 - Hersheypark
07.11 - Kings Island
08.05 - Holiday World
08.05 - Splashin' Safari
08.13 - Indiana Beach
09.23 - Silver Dollar City's Fall Festival
10.30 - Six Flags St. Louis' Fright Fest
10.28 - Worlds of Fun's Halloween Haunt
11.18 - Silver Dollar City's An Old Time Christmas
11.24 - Worlds of Fun's Winterfest
11.25 - Six Flags St. Louis' Holiday in the Park
12.02 - EPCOT
12.03 - Magic Kingdom
12.04 - Disney's Animal Kingdom

Spring Break 2018 - Disneyland/California Adventure, Universal Studios Hollywood, Legoland California, Sea World San Diego, Knott's Berry Farm, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Santa Monica Pier

SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE now posted: HERE




SIX FLAGS OFF ROAD SAFARI now posted: HERE

You can feel the flames and the mister on the rides are working.

They can kill that minetrain anytime they want.

[Swoosh]

2017 TRAVELS:
01.01 - Legoland Florida
01.01 - Boggy Creek Airboat Ride
01.01 - Coca Cola Orlando Eye
01.01 - Ripley's Odditorium Orlando
01.02 - Kennedy Space Center
01.02 - Fun Spot America - Orlando
02.11 - St. Louis Zoo
03.19 - Silver Dollar City's Spring Ride Days
03.26 - Six Flags St. Louis's Opening Weekend
03.28 - Kemah Boardwalk
03.28 - Galveston Island Pleasure Pier
03.29 - Space Center Houston
03.30 - Sea World San Antonio
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas' Mardi Gras Festival
04.01 - Six Flags over Texas
04.09 - Silver Dollar City's Festival of Wonder
04.13 - Worlds of Fun's Opening Day
04.20 - Gateway Arch
05.06 - Worlds of Fun's BBQ and Brews Fest
05.29 - Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ
05.31 - Six Flags Great America
06.23 - Hurricane Harbor St. Louis
06.23 - Six Flags St. Louis' Mardi Gras Festival
06.25 - Oceans of Fun
06.30 - Silver Dollar City's Star Spangled Summer Festival
07.04 - Camden Park
07.05 - Busch Gardens Williamsburg
07.06 - Kings Dominion
07.06 - Six Flags America
07.07 - Dorney Park
07.07 - Knoebels
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Adventure Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Mariner's Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Surfside Pier
07.09 - Six Flags Great Adventure
07.09 - Six Flags Off Road Safari
07.10 - Hersheypark
07.10 - The Boardwalk at Hersheypark
07.10 - Hershey's Chocolate World
07.11 - Kings Island
08.05 - Holiday World
08.05 - Splashin' Safari
08.13 - Indiana Beach
09.23 - Silver Dollar City's Fall Festival
10.30 - Six Flags St. Louis' Fright Fest
10.28 - Worlds of Fun's Halloween Haunt
11.18 - Silver Dollar City's An Old Time Christmas
11.24 - Worlds of Fun's Winterfest
11.25 - Six Flags St. Louis' Holiday in the Park
12.02 - EPCOT
12.03 - Magic Kingdom
12.04 - Disney's Animal Kingdom

Spring Break 2018 - Disneyland/California Adventure, Universal Studios Hollywood, Legoland California, Sea World San Diego, Knott's Berry Farm, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Santa Monica Pier

HERSHEYPARK now posted: HERE




THE BOARDWALK AT HERSHEYPARK now posted: HERE



HERSHEY'S CHOCOLATE WORLD now posted: HERE

[Coaster]

I got to attend Hersheypark the summer that Fahrenheit was brand new. I absolutely loved the park and the town of Hershey. The park had such a great charm I wasn't expecting before attending. I would love to go back.

[chittlins]

I got to attend Hersheypark the summer that Fahrenheit was brand new. I absolutely loved the park and the town of Hershey. The park had such a great charm I wasn't expecting before attending. I would love to go back.

Well, I was there when they made it official that they were expanding the park on the old golf course. So, it was a big news item on the local TV news. Anywho, I really liked the park, a bit disjointed with how they placed the water park aspects but I'lll let them them get the new master plan out and see what they add.
I sew them really using their branding more like you have seen with the Reeces dark ride and the towers. A Twizzlers coaster?

[Swoosh]

2017 TRAVELS:
01.01 - Legoland Florida
01.01 - Boggy Creek Airboat Ride
01.01 - Coca Cola Orlando Eye
01.01 - Ripley's Odditorium Orlando
01.02 - Kennedy Space Center
01.02 - Fun Spot America - Orlando
02.11 - St. Louis Zoo
03.19 - Silver Dollar City's Spring Ride Days
03.26 - Six Flags St. Louis's Opening Weekend
03.28 - Kemah Boardwalk
03.28 - Galveston Island Pleasure Pier
03.29 - Space Center Houston
03.30 - Sea World San Antonio
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas' Mardi Gras Festival
04.01 - Six Flags over Texas
04.09 - Silver Dollar City's Festival of Wonder
04.13 - Worlds of Fun's Opening Day
04.20 - Gateway Arch
05.06 - Worlds of Fun's BBQ and Brews Fest
05.29 - Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ
05.31 - Six Flags Great America
06.23 - Hurricane Harbor St. Louis
06.23 - Six Flags St. Louis' Mardi Gras Festival
06.25 - Oceans of Fun
06.30 - Silver Dollar City's Star Spangled Summer Festival
07.04 - Camden Park
07.05 - Busch Gardens Williamsburg
07.06 - Kings Dominion
07.06 - Six Flags America
07.07 - Dorney Park
07.07 - Knoebels
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Adventure Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Mariner's Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Surfside Pier
07.09 - Six Flags Great Adventure
07.09 - Six Flags Off Road Safari
07.10 - Hersheypark
07.10 - The Boardwalk at Hersheypark
07.10 - Hershey's Chocolate World
07.11 - Kings Island
08.05 - Holiday World
08.05 - Splashin' Safari
08.13 - Indiana Beach
09.23 - Silver Dollar City's Fall Festival
10.30 - Six Flags St. Louis' Fright Fest
10.28 - Worlds of Fun's Halloween Haunt
11.18 - Silver Dollar City's An Old Time Christmas
11.24 - Worlds of Fun's Winterfest
11.25 - Six Flags St. Louis' Holiday in the Park
12.02 - EPCOT
12.03 - Magic Kingdom
12.04 - Disney's Animal Kingdom

Spring Break 2018 - Disneyland/California Adventure, Universal Studios Hollywood, Legoland California, Sea World San Diego, Knott's Berry Farm, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Santa Monica Pier

KINGS ISLAND now posted: HERE

[shavethewhales]

Im waiting in line for flying turns at Knoebels right now. This place is everythin I hoped it would be. Its already probably my second favorite place on earth after SDC. Ill have to gush more about it when im at a keyboard, lol.

Dorney was surprisingly good as well yesterday. They have so much history that has been thrown away, but there are a few historical rides there and Talon is fantastic.

[Swoosh]

2017 TRAVELS:
01.01 - Legoland Florida
01.01 - Boggy Creek Airboat Ride
01.01 - Coca Cola Orlando Eye
01.01 - Ripley's Odditorium Orlando
01.02 - Kennedy Space Center
01.02 - Fun Spot America - Orlando
02.11 - St. Louis Zoo
03.19 - Silver Dollar City's Spring Ride Days
03.26 - Six Flags St. Louis's Opening Weekend
03.28 - Kemah Boardwalk
03.28 - Galveston Island Pleasure Pier
03.29 - Space Center Houston
03.30 - Sea World San Antonio
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas' Mardi Gras Festival
04.01 - Six Flags over Texas
04.09 - Silver Dollar City's Festival of Wonder
04.13 - Worlds of Fun's Opening Day
04.20 - Gateway Arch
05.06 - Worlds of Fun's BBQ and Brews Fest
05.29 - Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ
05.31 - Six Flags Great America
06.23 - Hurricane Harbor St. Louis
06.23 - Six Flags St. Louis' Mardi Gras Festival
06.25 - Oceans of Fun
06.30 - Silver Dollar City's Star Spangled Summer Festival
07.04 - Camden Park
07.05 - Busch Gardens Williamsburg
07.06 - Kings Dominion
07.06 - Six Flags America
07.07 - Dorney Park
07.07 - Knoebels
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Adventure Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Mariner's Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Surfside Pier
07.09 - Six Flags Great Adventure
07.09 - Six Flags Off Road Safari
07.10 - Hersheypark
07.10 - The Boardwalk at Hersheypark
07.10 - Hershey's Chocolate World
07.11 - Kings Island
08.05 - Holiday World
08.05 - Splashin' Safari
09.23 - Silver Dollar City's National Crafts and Cowboy Festival
10.08 - Six Flags St. Louis' Fright Fest
10.28 - Worlds of Fun's Halloween Haunt
11.22 - Silver Dollar City's An Old Time Christmas
11.24 - Worlds of Fun's Winterfest
11.25 - Six Flags St. Louis' Holiday in the Park
12.01 - Disney's Animal Kingdom
12.02 - EPCOT
12.03 - Magic Kingdom
12.04 - Disney's Hollywood Studios

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Updated the list with new links to photo trip reports.

[chittlins]

Going to Dallas second weekend of Oct and hitting up SFOT.

We have gone to SFSL 3x, SF America , SF Great Adventure all on the Gold passes. So I think we got our use out of it.

So 2018 is really shaping up.

SDC passes for the year.

Got the flights and hotels booked and even done a couple of dining reservations for the Spring Break trip.It's a doozy.

Both Fun Spots
Universal Studios
Islands of Adventure
Volcano Bay
Busch Gardens Tampa
Seaworld Orlando
Discovery Cove
Aquatica
Animal Kingdom
3 nite Disney cruise to Bahamas
WDW
Epcot
Orlando Eye
World's Tallest Star Flyer.(under construction)

Summer Yellowstone Trip
1 night at Old Faithful Inn, Two at Canyon Lodge
-Elitch Gardens
-Glenwood Canyon
-Lagoon

Fall trip to Dollywood.

[tiffanylynnt]

I just got back from South Carolina a couple weeks ago. We were helping my sister and her husband move to Columbia. We stayed for a week and called it "vacation" so we weren't driving 12 hours one way just to drop off furniture.

My husband and I are going to Six Flags Great America October 13-14 for our anniversary. He used to live in Gary, IN and that was the Six Flags he grew up with. He's excited for me to see it and he hasn't been in YEARS.

My sister and I are tentatively planning to meet in Nashville sometime in November. Nashville is pretty much right between where I live and where she now lives.

[HumphreyHawk]

I'm starting to get vacationitis....scheduled to shove off our cruise in 11 days!!!

Watching those tropical storm forecasts like a hawk.

[runner1960]

Been in Wyoming on a Mule Deer , Antelope hunt. Took a side trip to Yellowstone and, Cody, thermopolis, Buffalo, And now Casper. Beautiful out here this time o fyear and I like flying by the seat of my pants with no plan in place for the next day.

[Swoosh]

2017 TRAVELS:
01.01 - Legoland Florida
01.01 - Boggy Creek Airboat Ride
01.01 - Coca Cola Orlando Eye
01.01 - Ripley's Odditorium Orlando
01.02 - Kennedy Space Center
01.02 - Fun Spot America - Orlando
02.11 - St. Louis Zoo
03.19 - Silver Dollar City's Spring Ride Days
03.26 - Six Flags St. Louis's Opening Weekend
03.28 - Kemah Boardwalk
03.28 - Galveston Island Pleasure Pier
03.29 - Space Center Houston
03.30 - Sea World San Antonio
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas
03.31 - Six Flags Fiesta Texas' Mardi Gras Festival
04.01 - Six Flags over Texas
04.09 - Silver Dollar City's Festival of Wonder
04.13 - Worlds of Fun's Opening Day
04.20 - Gateway Arch
05.06 - Worlds of Fun's BBQ and Brews Fest
05.29 - Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ
05.31 - Six Flags Great America
06.23 - Hurricane Harbor St. Louis
06.23 - Six Flags St. Louis' Mardi Gras Festival
06.25 - Oceans of Fun
06.30 - Silver Dollar City's Star Spangled Summer Festival
07.04 - Camden Park
07.05 - Busch Gardens Williamsburg
07.06 - Kings Dominion
07.06 - Six Flags America
07.07 - Dorney Park
07.07 - Knoebels
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Adventure Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Mariner's Pier
07.08 - Morey's Piers -- Surfside Pier
07.09 - Six Flags Great Adventure
07.09 - Six Flags Off Road Safari
07.10 - Hersheypark
07.10 - The Boardwalk at Hersheypark
07.10 - Hershey's Chocolate World
07.11 - Kings Island
08.05 - Holiday World
08.05 - Splashin' Safari
09.23 - Silver Dollar City's National Crafts and Cowboy Festival
10.08 - Six Flags St. Louis' Fright Fest
10.28 - Worlds of Fun's Halloween Haunt
11.22 - Silver Dollar City's An Old Time Christmas
11.24 - Worlds of Fun's Winterfest
11.25 - Six Flags St. Louis' Holiday in the Park
12.01 - Disney's Animal Kingdom
12.02 - EPCOT
12.03 - Magic Kingdom
12.04 - Disney's Hollywood Studios

Six Flags St. Louis' Fright Fest

[tiffanylynnt]

I had previously mentioned before that I would be going to Six Flags Great America. We got back around 12:30 this morning.

It was a lot of fun! We rode almost all of the roller coasters and this is a perfect place for anyone who loves roller coasters! I was very impressed by almost all of them.


It was cold outside but at least it wasn't raining like the day before. We didn't have to stand in lines for very long all morning. But when we came back after getting lunch, it was packed!

We rode Superman Ultimate Flight. On that ride, you sit in the seat then it rotates so you're facing the ground and you ride the ride like how Superman flies. We were about to come back into the station and were in the holding area where you wait for the car in front of you to leave. We hear an announcement about "technical difficulties." We had to wait for almost 10 minutes, staring at the floor, until they got the ride up and running again. We got a free Flash Pass because of it, which got us on Goliath without having to wait the 85 minutes that the sign said it would take!

Goliath is definitely my favorite ride there. Its made by the same company as Outlaw Run and has the wooden structure with metal tracks. I do like Outlaw Run more though... We needed to start heading home after Goliath. We saw some of the Fright Fest parade before leaving but there was no way to really watch it because the crowd was insane.

I have all of the pictures up on my Facebook page. If you want to see them, you can add me as a friend:
https://www.facebook.com/tutterrow1

(My husband doesn't want the album made public. He has some people he'd rather not associate with through Facebook anymore... It's a long story.)

[HumphreyHawk]

Well....we completed our long-anticipated family cruise last week.  We had a blast in the western Caribbean even with some poor weather (at least it wasn't hurricanes).

I won't bore you with a full trip report but did want to call it to this amusement park group an amazing water park that we got to visit at Costa Maya Mexico called Lost Maya Kingdom Adventure Park   https://maya-park.com/

Easily the most thrilling and most fun water park I've ever experienced.  Place is amazing....great themes and designs and the rides don't hold anything back.

The park is located right next to the cruise ship port and is within 5 minute tram ride from the dock.  It features a 24 story Maya Pyramid as a centerpiece that can been seen through the park and from the cruise ships at the dock.  Looks like both the park and the dock/shops where developed specifically the cater to the cruise ship visitors.   The park is basically a combination Zipline center and water park and you can but tixs for each one or both.  It really is built in the middle of a jungle.  The paths around the park are raised and create an amazing atmosphere.

On the day we went there where only two ships in town and rain in the forecast all day so it was a relatively slow day and it felt like we had most of the park to ourselves!!!...maybe just a few hundred people there all morning.  After finding very reasonably priced lockers within the pyramid 'ruins' the family jumped in a very long and amazingly themed lazy river that ran around and through the pyramid.  River even had a long section full of dry ice fog that created a 'white out' effect....very cool and creepy. 

My oldest two and I then headed back to the pyramid and suited up to do the ziplines.  They had 3 courses of lines including a zip roller coaster which we tried first.  All the courses started out of different levels in the pyramid.  The pyramid has two ELEVATORS!!!! you take to get to the start points.  The coaster was a slow curvy helix filled descent which ended with a splash down in a pool.  It was actually probably the scariest zip course because I really got nervous making those turns just hanging from a rope.   The other two courses had multiple ziplines onto various towers set around the park.  The longer of the courses took about 20mins to complete and had 8-10 very high and long rides.  The 'medium' one had 3-4 rides and a couple of rope bridges between the towers.  All of them had a final splash down ride to end them.

Park had a huge kids play structure that my two youngest play at for hours.  3-4 slides on the structure and a nearby 'relax pool' that the played in too.  With some rain coming in...my oldest and I headed back to the pyramid structure to do the water slides.  Wow...the most intense slide structures I've even been on.  There are around a dozen slides through out the pyramid.  Levels 12, 18, and 24.  Did I mention the Elevator!!!  You can take the stairs or the elevator which has the slides listed out by level.  The red tube slide we started with was the fastest I've ever been on....it whipped you through the tube and guaranteed a huge wipeout at the end.  So much fun.  The mat racers off of level 18 where intense....you slide on your belly face first into complete darkness....twist around not seeing what is coming...then burst out into daylight in time to dive down some more....crazy.  After sampling about half the slides a few times it started to thunderstorm....not that the workers seemed to care.  We got a few more rides in before the lightning really started to worry me and the wife was ready to go.  Wish the weather was better...we really packed in a lot of action in just a few hours....would have been great to enjoy the attractions longer.

Few other notes:
Park was completely feed by ocean water - all pool and slides where salt water - first for me
All rides where equipped with RFID scanners for wrist bands (though they didn't give us any)  Park had cameras setup everywhere taking pic and had scanners to try to identify who was there.  During our exit through the gift shop process - they had to manually find our pics to try to sell
Did I mention the elevators - lol - sure beats hitting the stairs for every ride - really cool setup - had the lockers and zipline equipment at the base of the pyramid - zip liners could just jump on an elevator after getting geared up and pick a course to start - then they ended back by the pyramid where they rechecked your gear and you could just jump on the elevator to start another course - water slider used the same elevators
Also had an upcharge freefall attraction within the center of the pyramid.  20 story drop with 5 seconds of freefall was advertised....you just walk off a plank-like overhang in the center of the pyramid attached to a cord on your back (harness) that would activate to catch you on the way down.