By Karol Gajda

Before I began the roller coaster tour I got a lot of noes from theme parks, sponsors, and press. It was basically 99 noes for every yes, which is disappointing and deflating. But I kept rollin’.

I asked for help where I thought I needed it and got even more noes.

For example, one of the people I contacted runs a very large coaster website. There are quite a few coaster enthusiast websites. (I’m not a coaster enthusiast, btw, I just think they’re fun.) I asked him if he could help me as far as getting free tickets to parks since he already had contacts at most of the parks I’d be going to. His response was essentially “Haha, yeah right, they’re not going to give you free tickets.” Although instead... More...