Six Flags Great America
Gurnee, Illinois
April 10, 2009
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Here are the three of us after one of our many laps around the Whizzer.  Bond loved it as I knew he was and after a ride with me he had to ride it all alone.  Notice in this picture the absence of anyone in line.  It was like that all day long so the ride operators just let us ride and ride and ride.  It was a rapture.



To me it's one of the most relaxing things to hear the hum of the Whizzer's motors as you head up it's spiral lift because it lets me know that soon that I will be in coaster heaven as we speed around it's track. 



I know I'm all waxing poetic about the Whizzer but just ignore the fact that this coaster is an antique (in the steel coaster world) and not the biggest and most thrilling ride out there and just sit back in it's comfortable trains and have a truly fun and phenomenal expierence.



It's hard to see any of the Whizzer other than around it's lift hill as it's so overgrown but this early in the season with no leaves on the trees you could see almost the whole ride.



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