LFTR Episode 72 - This has been such a jam packed summer and we are happy. We’re also, admittedly, quite tired if you can’t tell by listening. Perhaps we’ve discovered a new Inside Out emotion: Happytired? We talk about this wonderful feeling as well as our time in Warren Dunes, Indiana Dunes and Cedar Point.
Highlights include:
* We’ve gone no alcohol for July but probably will keep it up for a while, maybe longer (if I do)
* A quick and dunes-less trip to Indiana Dunes
* Some National Parks you can just show up - others you need to really know the cool things to see ahead
* “Vegetated” sand dunes
* A giant sand dune they call a mountain you can run/fly down.
* Jamie’s guide to backing in
* “Listen to your partner” applies in many situations
* Dishy disaster
* Either I’m (Clay) getting old or Cedar Point’s coasters are more intense than most!
* Favorite coasters discussed: Gemini (1979 wooden racing coaster), Magnum (1989 the original hyper coaster >200ft tall), Iron Dragon (ride in cars hanging underneath over a pond), Steel Vengeance (Hybrid coaster built on the structure of a wooden coaster, really unique and tons of airtime), Gatekeeper (B&M wing coaster that goes through keyholes in the entrance gate to the park), Valravn (dive coaster)
* The end of a good trip is happytired
* Some favorite summer happytired memories from our childhoods
Links:
* 1933 Century of Progress Homes (Indiana Dunes NP)
* Mt Randall loop trail (All Trails) - I would suggest not going up the big dune like this map shows but going up through the woods on the north leg of the trail and taking a left to loop back around to the big dune then go down it
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