Year: 1999
Time of year: Summer
Country: USA
Places / cities: Los Angeles
On this trip we were three families traveling together; My parents and me, and my sisters and their families. Nataniel, my nephew, was no old fellow. Margrethe, my eldest niece, was so restless on the plane and screamed a lot. Poor...
What I remember best from this trip was the trip to Six flags, the amusement park that has several famous roller coasters. One of them was the one-year-old The Riddler's Revenge. When it opened, it was the world's tallest, fastest and longest stand-in roller coaster. The length is approx. 1.3 km.. Another experience was Superman: Escape from Krypton (1997). This was the first roller coaster that was over 120 meters high. The concept of this track is that you accelerate to around 167 km/h straight ahead before going into a curve that goes over a vertical rise of the aforementioned 120 metres. When you reach the top, you are "weightless" before you fall backwards down the same path. This was probably the only time I was terrified on a roller coaster.
By the way, it was on this trip that I tried banana split for the first time. In one restaurant we went to, there was a staffed ice counter. Now I have to be careful with my wording. The lady behind the counter was from a different cultural background than me. She had a radiance and character that both showed a positive stereotype and that she was not the lady to mess with. I liked her!
I also experienced how much salty seawater can irritate the eyes. I experienced this on Santa Monica beach, the beach where, among other things, Baywatch and Pacific blue were filmed.
And we visited Universal Studios! Here I got to see, among other things, how the effects in Backdraft were carried out. And then we watched the show T2-3D: Battle Across Time. I liked Universal Studios.