Malcolm's Tantilla Tour

Day 1 would see us leave our hotel near Dulles Airport making a quick trip to the National Air & Space Museum before heading through the state to Maryland visiting 5 parks: Adventure Park USA near the city of Frederick and 4 other parks on the coast; not a very gentle introduction at all with quite a bit of driving through the state before then driving all the way back to DC. To break up the return leg I thought we could stop at the state capitol building in Annapolis (a theme that would run through the trip). Those in the theme park community will probably be asking why we didn't stop at Six Flags America, which is also found in the Annapolis area; it just never came up in the planning. All four of us have been there in the past and it's definitely not known for being a stand out park in the chain despite it having an OK Superman coaster (which had a great ride ops team the last time I went there). The bigger attraction on this day was going to be 2 of the 4 Schwarzkopf...

Following a successful trip to the US in 2016, Team B (don't ask) decided to reunite for a return trip to the land of the Trump. In 2016 our route took us through Texas so we called the trip "The Rattlesnake Tour" and being completely unoriginal stuck with the snake theme this time around, choosing the lesser known Tantilla species. Why that one? All will become clear. The route this time would take us from Washington DC, out to the coast and then back west all the way through to Minneapolis. Along the way we'd visit around 50 parks of various sizes, from the small family complexes to the some of the largest parks in the world. There would also be some sightseeing and the usual Malcolm randomness to make the trip a bit different, and fortunately we've a good group who are tolerant of that. This would include some film locations, quite a lot of State Capitol buildings and on this trip I'd hopefully be able to pick up two new states to tick off my US Sta...