Six Flags Magic Mountain
The day we checked out of our apartment in Hollywood we went straight to the next exciting thing. Only a 40-minute drive away there was a truckload of thrill waiting for us: The Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park.
We decided to spend two days discovering the park, therefore we weren’t in a hurry to arrive as early as possible. We didn’t even bother to look when the park opens. When we arrived at the front gate a little after 10 AM we were surprised. There were a lot of people waiting in queues that didn’t move at all. As it turns out the park doesn’t open at 9 or 9:30, not even 10. The park opens at 10:30 AM. Without trying we managed to get there before opening (to the non-gold-pass members).
Unfortunately, the park is closed during the week. They open only at the weekends in the off-season. Therefore, we couldn’t take advantage of the fact that nobody has time under the week to visit a theme park and we had to wait in line a lot. With a few exceptions, the wait time was between 40 and 60 minutes.
The park offers 44 rides, 14 of those rides are roller coasters. And 9 of those 14 are described as “Maximum Six Flags Thrills” rides, and they really are! I’m sure quite a few of you have been to the “Europapark” in Germany. All the rides there would hardly be on this maximum thrills list. We had the pleasure to ride all but one (it was closed) of those rides and they were all worth the wait. Simply: sick, savage, stunning, wtf, awesome and wow.
The only thing the people here at Magic Mountain could learn from the Germans is the loading and unloading of passengers. For everything else I wish someone in Europe with enough money would visit a Six Flags and ask themselves why we don’t have anything like it across the Atlantic and then just build it (as close as possible to Switzerland =).
San Simeon
It was time to get moving north. After our second day at Magic Mountain we resided not far away in the shittiest motel so far on my journey. The motel was part of the Motel 6 chain and we thought it couldn’t be that bad, but it was. Luckily, we only stayed for one night until we continued north along the highway 1 to San Simeon.
I have seen this part of the highway 1, but only as shotgun. This time I was the one driving down those curvy roads. Once again it was a pleasure. We found a nice motel for a good price where we stayed for two nights.
The day we spent in San Simeon was mostly doing laundry, watching elephant seals, sightseeing and fuel refilling. After our one day break we continued our ride to San Jose, but more on San Jose in the next post =)
