8/27 – No coasters, just culture. (Actually there is one coaster if you read closely). While I watch my page views counter skyrocket as everyone rushes to click on the links below, I’m going to try to roll out a new review every weekend from now on as the fall semester is starting in a couple days. Who knows if I’ll be able to keep up with that schedule as I’m taking 17 credits and trying to find a job as well, but by my calculations I should have everything I wanted to write about Europe finished by next January at that rate.

8/19 – The final chapter (and appendix) of the saga of spring break 2010 is complete. Next will be more tales from Italia, although it might be a few extra days before the first is posted as I need to get some, erm, applications submitted to my university. More news later, for now, peace.

8/15 – Still cranking the stories and reviews out, Europa Park (Part One) has been posted online.

8/13 – Holiday Park is now posted. I just have two parts to Europa Park then I’ll be done with the whole spring break story from last March. Maybe that can be completed before a full week has gone by?

8/08 – Keeping a fast pace to make up for lost time, I got another review written on Erlebnispark Tripsdrill which should be worth a read (and maybe a comment, too). Next will be Holiday Park, which I think has a certain roller coaster worth extra special attention. You know which one I’m talking about. Keep checking back over the next few days so you don’t miss it!

8/06 – Okay, I know what you’re thinking, “why would I ever want to read that long of a report on some random Eastern European park I couldn’t care less about?” Good question, and the reason you should want to is because there’s a pretty interesting story in there which so far makes today’s update stand alone from all the others posted on this site so far. You’ll just have to read it to find out for yourself. Oh, there’s also quite a bit of cultural information on Budapest and Hungary which you may or may not want to skip to get to the fun part.

8/02 – Good news, today is my birthday! So yeah, I kind of got stuck writing a final take-home paper from my summer study program and then got caught up in our local film festival so I didn’t have time to work on new updates. Budapest and Vidámpark have still yet to be penned, but I did get around to posting both some movie reviews from my four days at the Edinburgh International Film Fest last June (Day 1; Day 2; Day 3; Day 4) and also uploaded my journal from the month or so I spent in London, found via the link below. Not really coaster related, but whatever, I dedicated myself to get it all written… eventually.

7/15 – Back with two updates from Austria, the first about the city of Vienna (sorry, no coaster content), the next about that infamous Viennese institution, the Wiener Prater. Notice the banner promises the inclusion of an economic analysis… sounds like fun, right!? Hope to be back again with another review from Budapest before too much more additional time slips us by. For now, enjoy.

7/08 – 5 1/2 months. 11 countries. 35 parks. 144 roller coasters. And it’s all finally over. Now that I have some moments where I’m not running down narrow cobbled streets to catch a train I’m about to miss I think it’s about time to start updating this site again, don’t you agree? Good; the link to the long-delayed part two of my Disneyland Paris report is below. It will probably be awhile before I’m all caught up on every park and ride I visited (believe me, they’re all coming, and I don’t intend to leave out any details despite the enormous quantity of material I have to go through) so I might take this moment to share a couple post-trip thoughts. I got to do quite nearly everything I planned to do, which is ridiculous considering how over ambitious these plans were to begin with. Even when things didn’t go according to plan (which happened a lot) there is nothing I would change about my time in Europe… well, maybe except for the fact that I ran some 2k over budget, but that’s just being nitpicky. Really, my only regret is that it’s all over, but I’m definitely glad to be back home in Michigan. Anyway, with any luck I can have one or two updates to share per week so you can start checking this space on a semi-frequent basis again. Enjoy the review below, Vienna and the Wiener Prater will be next.

5/25 – Now this update is coming to you from London, England. Again, no time to be writing new reviews, but I’ve already got a start to my collection of UK parks with Legoland Windsor this past weekend and semi-planned stops by Thorpe, Chessington and Oakwood over the upcoming weekends. I managed to do everything I wanted to in Spain save for a perpetually shuttered Stunt Fall, and that entire photo set is now uploaded online for your viewing pleasure: 2010 Spain on Flickr. While that collection is now static, another collection for the UK may prove much more dynamic in the near future: 2010 United Kingdom / Ireland on Flickr. That’s all for now; again, it will probably be another month before I can have time to write any new content, but the photos on Flickr should with any luck tell some stories on their own that will be elaborated in full on a later date.