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Kokomo's, the family entertainment center with the nearest roller coaster to us, no longer has the nearest roller coaster to us. It's for sad reasons. Since the accident that caused The Serpent's train to jump the track(!), they've sold the roller coaster and dismantled it. There's no expectation that they'll get another either. Their social media pages are stuffed with people complaining that the miniature golf course is in rougher shape than it used to be, too, suggesting the center might be in that terrible spiral of decline.
And yet we might ride the Serpent again. Gene Staples --- the Indiana Beach guy --- bought it, and is having it installed at Niagara Amusement Park and Splash World, formerly Fantasy Island, out by Buffalo. It and the shuttle loop coaster that used to be Cascabel 2.0 at La Feria Chapultepec Magico, in Mexico City, are to be put together there. So if we ever get back to Fantasy Island, it'll be a new name, but we can revisit two familiar coasters. Cascabel 2.0 used to be at Kennywood, but before our time there, as Laser Loop. Serpent, meanwhile, spent a dozen years at LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park in Ohio, and before that a couple years at Noble Park Funland in Paducah, Kentucky. One of the Serpent's sister coasters --- from LeSourdsville --- seems to still be running, the Little Dipper at Sluggers And Putters in Canal Fulton, Ohio. Another sister coaster, the Jet Star, went through Kentucky Kingdom, Darien Lake, and Great Escape before finally shuttering for good in 2006.
Let's finish off looking at that park, the day after Anthrohio, after which we got back to normal.
The camera always needs some fiddling with at moments like this.
But we had plenty of time to get some further pictures.
Aw, yeah, look at that deer neck there.
Artists actually refuse to draw a deer at this angle because there's no way to draw this so it looks like anything.
And a last look at the trail through the woods. Can you spot where we hid the letterbox? No, because it's not in the field of view.
Trivia: The last Transit satellite was switched off in early 1997. Source: Something New Under the Sun, Helen Gavaghan.
Currently Reading: The Enchanted World: Dragons, Series Director Ellen Phillips.
