Dollywood. Kennywood.
Dollywood. Kennywood. Consonant, vowel, double consonant, ywood. See how similar they are? Practically the same park in the head to head spelling face off. No difference to the untrained eye. None at all.
Dollywood is turning into my cursed trip of 2004. No go on April 17th. Reschedule the 24th. Crap came up on the May 1st weekend. May 8th? Nice try.
Here’s the deal. Dollywood has become the July trip. Bad in that…well it’s not happening now. Good in that it becomes a multiple park thing. A theme park orgy if you will. Instead of a quickie with Dollywood in the spring, we get a summer romp with Dollywood and a few of her neighbors. (my analogies just keep getting further out there, don’t they?)
More good news though (as if theme park orgies don’t beat all) - Kennywood becomes the early May trip. This weekend to be exact. That means new video from Kennywood as soon as next week and a big fat gallery update shortly behind the video.
Speaking of Kennywood, I need some help from Ohio residents. It seems that Kennywood billboards have been popping up around your lovely state. It also just so happens that these billboards prominently feature a coasterimage.com photo. It also just happens that my ego loves to be fed. Therefore anytime my photos end up 6 feet wide along side major roadways, I like to see it. If anyone stumbles by one of these billboards and cares to pass along the exact location, I’d appreciate it. Word has it that they’ve appeared in the Akron/Cuyahoga Falls area already and I expect them to also pop up in the Columbus area. If you spot one, let me know where - trust me I’ve got nothing better to do than drive 2 hours to take a picture of one of my pictures. Of course, if you happen to have a camera handy you could snag a quick pic and pass it along. First one to send me a decent photo with location info gets….well…I don’t know. Send me the photo/info and we’ll talk. At any rate, thanks to anyone who actually takes a few minutes out of their life to help me out on this one.
I’ve updated a bunch of minor things on the site in the past week or so and you can expect new Kennywood video and pics to go online after this weekend. Be sure to stop back and take a gander. And what the hell, if you’re heading out to Kennywood this weekend catch up with us and say hello - we’ll take your picture, autograph your boobs, kiss your babies, wash your socks, eat your potato patch fries, whatever. It’ll be fun…
