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It sometimes happens that my journal catches up with what I'm doing and I'm left with nothing but photo dumps to publish. This is almost one of those times: I'm caught up to the start of doing something that is going to be a big report, but I'm too busy doing the thing to have time to write about it. So, please enjoy the end of my Sky Ride that Halloweekends Saturday plus the one other photo from that day that I found interesting. Tomorrow, Sunday. I mean, the Sunday of our Halloweekends trip --- look, you understand this all.
On the Sky Ride now, looking west, toward ValRavn, from elevation. You can see Siren's Curse pivoting towards the upper right edge.
Watching as a gigantic Sky Ride cart crushes innocent people below.
Caricatures and face painting underneath; in the distance ... I ... this is weird. I feel like that's got to be Rougarou in front, and therefore ValRavn behind, but that doesn't look like a ValRavn train on the lift hill so now I'm confused. I can't think of any Cedar Point roller coaster that has five cars on it.
Here's one of the Sky Ride pillars and evidence of people managing to put their band stickers on, incredibly. You know those things on the lift hill can't be a train, they'd have moved by now. But then what are they?
Evening sun behind what is unmistakably ValRavn, never mind what might be on the tracks.
Peeking in here at the Cedar Downs racing carousel.
And there's Kiddie Kingdom, survived another year.
The near-sunset sky over Raptor and Blue Streak.
Raptor, Blue Streak, and a Sky Ride car going the other way; I got almost everything this time around.
And a beauty shot of Blue Streak in the distance.
Coming in for the end of Sky Ride here.
And, to close out the night, a look up the Top Thrill 2 reverse tower.
Trivia: A 1634 conference in Paris, called by Cardinal Richelieu (and attended by only the Catholic powers) agreed that longitude and latitude should be measured from a prime meridian through the Canary Island of Ferro (now Hierro), used by Ptolemy for his maps and in common use at the time. It also set the convention that a positive longitude should be east, and a negative longitude west of that meridian. Source: Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar, Duncan Steel. Must admit I'm a little surprised people were comfortable using negative numbers in critical calculations like longitude as early as 1634.
Currently Reading: Ad Astra, First Quarter 2026, Editor Rod Pyle.
