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Don't have much to report on. We were planning to get to a pinball thing tonight but the weather looked too annoying to drive the hour-plus to, so instead we went to the touring company of Kimberly Akimbo. Anyway, here, enjoy more pictures from last July and our big road trip:
Returning to Six Flags America for the final time. In this picture, you will of course note, five flags.
Our main objective was taking a last chance at riding the Batwing coaster, and as you see, it was closed again. But we learned later that it was reported running at some point this day! No knowing if it was before we arrived, or after we left, but apparently we were within a whisker of getting the credit and did not.
I took the chance to ride the Wonder Woman Lasso of Truth elevated swings ride and oh hey, there's boards explaining Wonder Woman's deal. Let's read!
Well, they got to the second panel and while they didn't use the wrong it's, they somehow misspelled ``Is''.
And there's the third panel and they get the wrong it's again.
Photograph through the ride that makes it look a little bit like the Wonder Woman statue is doing the ride check.
Going around the park now; here's a section fenced off that looked like the queue for some removed ride.
Picture taken over a construction fence of the removed ride. No guessing what that would have been from this.
And now to The Wild One for out last rides.
There was again no wait to speak of.
The sign, which looks hand-painted to my eye, warns of what happens if you don't behave on the ride. I wondered if it might have been moved from the coaster's original home in Massachusetts.
Sign dangling from the station explaining how to sit down, and also giving some ride statistics.
Trivia: Medieval manuscripts and early printed books used abbreviations of Latin words such as (but not consistently) gradus, minutae, and secundae (Gr, Min, Sec), for the degree, minute, and second symbols. Source: A History of Mathematical Notations, Florian Cajori. The degree symbol seems to first appear in print around Gemma Frisius's 1569 edition of his book on arithmetic, using a 1558 appendix from Jacques Peletier, and the degree and minute, second, thirds, and fourths appear in a 1571 book by Johann Caramuel.
Currently Reading: The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski.
