Just like in The Long Long Trailer, all the dishes got broken

I'm sorry to drop a simple photo dump on you but I was busy prepping for a job interview for tomorrow and that ate up the time I might have used to write. We'll get back to Cedar Point Halloweekends soon. For now, here's the last pictures of our August visit to Michigan's Adventure and the excellent riding time we had then ... and the surprise waiting for us when we left the park.

Sneaker-level shot of the Scrambler because we liked the old-fashioned control lever and the deadman's brake and all.

Look at that gear going full speed to get the Scrambler up to the ... I don't know, we didn't count what its full speed was.

Safety warning cartoon on the inside of the restraint bar, a source of lifetime joy to bunny_hugger and her brother.

One last trip on the Mad Mouse, which for some reason has you just sit in that far back position rather than get off the car right away. We do not understand the logic of this but they've been running Mad Mouse so it's as slow as possible lately.

Seagull in the parking lot asking: the heck is THIS about?

Family in the parking lot asking: the heck is THIS about?

So yeah, it's somehow the front fuselage of a DC-3 airplane turned into an RV and then somehow it's parked at Michigan's Adventure because of the reasons?

The Fabulous Flamingo is the key needed to understand anything of this: here's an article about the guy who did the conversion work, including photos of the inside. Also, somehow, this isn't the first DC-3 motor home. (See that link.)

The RV's location brought us to a part of the parking lot we just never visit so it gave us this rare-for-us view of the entrance.

Back to orbiting the Fabulous Flamingo and looking at it. Some of our time was spent with the question: how do you get in this thing?

And there, finally, is the answer. There's the one cabin door you can use on the right.

I don't want to imagine taking this over the Mackinac Bridge but it was a delight to see and a great bonus to an already magnificent riding day.

Trivia: The ``DC-3'' was originally the label given to the day version of the Douglas Sleeper-Transport. Source: The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner, F Robert van der Linden.

Currently Reading: Apollo Pilot: The Memoirs of Astronaut Donn Eisele, Donn Eisele, Francis French.