Roller coaster

My First Time on a Roller Coaster My eyes were as wide as an owl’s as zoomed down the huge drop. I was glad that the ride was finally over as I stepped off the ride I felt a sense of pride come over me. This year at Animal Kingdom in Disney World I went on my first roller coaster called Expedition Everest. The ride featured a backward drop and a regular drop reaching speeds of 55 mph. I will be sharing my experience of my first roller coaster within this story. When my family and I went to…

How many people die on a roller coaster each year? 50? 100? 200? Shockingly, only fifty-two deaths occurred between 1990 and 2004 (Inquisitr). Amusement parks are actually safer than we think. The chance of an injury or death at an amusement park is extremely low. In fact, according to the International Association of Amusement Park Attractions, only one in every 250 million riders experience a death caused by a ride at an amusement park. The International Association of Amusement Park…

I was in line, hearing the screams of kids, watching them as they make it to the top of the roller coaster, as the cart paused on top of the hill, the screams of the kids stopped for a second. AAAAAHHHHH!!!, the screams grew more lively as the cart’s raced down the hill. While the cart’s was going down the hill, I was starting to have second thoughts about going on this ride. I looked at the exit that everyone on the ride was getting off, and I saw some faces with smiles, others were…

Life is a roller coaster no one lined up to get on. It’s something you never chose, and it’s something you only have two options in: get off, or stay on. There are people who would rather jump off the roller coaster while it’s going full speed than sit the entire ride, and you have to understand that. Some people aren’t built for roller coasters; they’re built for the small kids rides. That’s okay, we all have different options and choices. But one thing we all share is that we have something to…

glance, a roller coaster can seem like a 1,000 foot high, metal-encased death trap. For this exact reason, roller coasters supply a perfect chance for someone to test their courage. Having been the extremely cautious child that I was, it wasn’t surprising that I almost failed this test when I had been given the chance to take it. I was scared of loud noises, large insects, abstract concepts, not being cool, and, most importantly, death. With this predisposition, the The Mamba (a famous roller…

went to Dollywood in Tennessee. That was when I actually rode a roller coaster that went straight up and had loops and went upside down. To start off, when we got to the park, it was a scorching hot day and the line seemed like it would go on for forever. The first ride was not really that bad, it was like any other rollercoaster except it went backwards some of the way and there was…

the air and people cheered. The endless pile of wood used to form a track shook violently as we ran over it, finally leaving the hill and forming a 76° angle with the ground…54 meters above comfort. Adrenaline raced through my veins faster than the coaster cart on the tracks; the whistle tone of the wind sang in harmony with the shrieks of fellow riders. My heart beat juxtaposed with my train, rising sky high as we plummeted towards the ground. WOOSH! An iPhone 6S zipped past my face as it…

Roller coasters have always intrigued me. It amazes me that people eagerly exchange the safety of the ground for the well sought out moment to be tossed through the air like debris in a hurricane, flying around in the sky. Someone at some point in history thought that people would enjoy such crazy experiences, and that person engineered what some of the first of these terrifying machines. What I find most interesting about these marvelous death machines is precisely the thrill and excitement of…

were going to want to ride a roller coaster, but I was terrified of them. Roller coasters had been my number one fear until that day, but I overcame that fear that day. On a tropical and humid day the first roller coaster that my friends and I rode was not as atrocious as I thought it would be, consequently, I had decided to ride it. I had overcame my fear of riding a brusque roller coaster, but now it was just going to become more arduous for me. Each roller coaster that we rode on, I became…

"Life can be like a roller coaster...and just when you think you've had enough, and you're ready to get off the ride and take the calm, easy merry-go round...you change your mind, throw your hands in the air and ride the roller coaster all over again", says Stacey Charter. Most of us has been on a roller coaster one way or another. We feel the moment when we know we are up in the air and the next moment we fall down to the very bottom, just to go right-back up again. Now the ups and downs can be…