Road Trip to Cedar Point

I've had my eye on Cedar Point for several years now as the self proclaimed "Roller Coaster Capitol of the World". I figured that the only time to visit would be either before school lets out for the summer or after school starts up again in the fall because in between the line ups at each ride would be too long. This week worked out just right for the trip as we had Victoria Day off and it was also unseasonably cool which managed the double duty of keeping both park visitors as well as bugs at bay.

It is about a 9 hour drive from Ottawa but a four lane highway all the way. There was some construction along I90 in New York and it was slow going through Cleveland at rush hour but an otherwise smooth ride. It is interesting to tune into talk radio in various cities and you learn that they have the same kind of narrow minded nutjobs that work that genre in most cities.

Most of the south side of Lake Erie is covered by mile after mile of vineyards, dotted with the occasional billboard advertising items such as porn, fireworks and firearms.

Cedar Point itself is situated on a spit of land and is as advertised, all rides. There are about fifteen coasters from old style wooden ones, to corkscrew twisting ones to big steel monsters. There are reasonably priced hotels on site and if you stay at them you get a free hour at the park before the other patrons get in.

I will certainly be back...this fall....well maybe??