Let's twist again, like we did last summer
My mathematics blog is a thing which exists, but enough about that. You want to see the pictures I took at Michigan's Adventure when we spent closing day there, and we met up with JTK and his family a bit? Me too; turns out I took fewer than I thought, maybe because the park looked so much like it had just the couple weeks before when we visited. Anyway here's much more of the day than I had realized it would be:
Queue TV for Shivering Timbers which I noticed didn't have any backing. I suppose they pick the durable outdoors model of these things but I'm still surprised it's left unshielded since, you know, rain.
And here's the station, and queue, for Corkscrew, which was doing a ot of business closing day.
More of Corkscrew, with the lift hill almost making a tangent to one of the ride's spirals.
Corkscrew train in the pose you'd use for the park's advertising in 1982!
Corkscrew returning to the station.
And here's the action at Zach's Zoomer; we ended up in front-seat rides for a change.
Checking in the carousel. This horse has a fish motif on its garb, and a mermaid cameo up front.
Oh wait, let's get another ride on Wolverine Wildcat and --- what's that opposite the trains? Why yeah, it's a storage bin for everyone who's got stuff that shouldn't be on the ride. Which for some reason they installed the last weeks of the season when they haven't had much obvious need for it before.
Peeking at the Camp Snoopy area, and particularly the balloon ride, from way over at Wolverine Wildcat.
Back to Zach's Zoomer for another ride and here's a nice shot of the control panel.
Zach's Zoomer on one of the return hills, and another rare case of my using a depth of field.
Here's the train on its last hill, coming back to the station.
Trivia: By the end of the First World War, the income tax rate on the highest incomes in the United States reached 67 percent. Source: The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar, H W Brands.
Currently Reading: Apollo Pilot: The Memoirs of Astronaut Donn Eisele, Donn Eisele, Francis French.