Combining Theme Park Visits and Roller Coaster Rides with Cultural Experiences Around the World!
Coasting With Culture Video Library:
2023 Vlogs
Stumbling in SoCal
February 9-14, 2023
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Part 1: A Knott's Berry Farm Pre-Stumble
The first event of 2023 for Buzzed Bars comes early heading down to Southern California. But before the official event kicks off, a large contingent of the club gathers together at Knott's Berry Farm for some pre-stumble festivites. |
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Part 2: Stumbling Around the Magic Montain
As the first 2023 event for the Buzzed Bars Coaster Club, Straight Outta Stumbles at Six Flags Magic Mountain would offer multiple sessions of Exclusive Ride Time, a special backstage tour of their roller coaster train maintenance shop, and a chance to enjoy a Super Bowl viewing party together. |
Stumbling Around America's Heartland
June 14-19, 2023
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Part 1: Preparing to Stumble Again
After a gap in travel because of class and work, the time for another adventure has come! Before getting started though, there was a change in frequently used airlines, and using them for this adventure may have had some bumps along the way.
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Part 2: Stumbling Around Kansas Oklahoma
Upon arriving to Kansas City, there's a pre-stumble adventure to several smaller parks between Kansas and Oklahoma that was inspired by a previously canceled trip, and give the chance to visit some charming parks while having neat interactions with locals and getting to try out a bit of an underrated park in Frontier City.
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Part 3: Stumbles Of Fun
As the Buzzed Bars Coaster Club gathers in Kansas City for a day at Worlds of Fun, there's a chance to enjoy a behind the scenes look at the parks newest coaster, a picnic lunch with a special giveaway, and exclusive ride time on a notorious nighttime coaster.
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Part 4: Stumbling to Lost Island
A side trip was taken by several members of the Buzzed Bars Coaster Club over to Iowa for a visit to the fairly new Lost Island Theme Park. Along with getting to ride two coasters that had previously operated on different continents of the world, the crew also got a special behind the scenes tours of one of those coasters and their surprise hit dark ride!
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Part 5: Stumbling to Adventureland then Home
To conclude the Stumbles of Fun weekend, there's a chance to make a return visit to Iowa's Adventureland, getting to try out two of the park's new coasters since the last time, and to try the parks popular beer spots with the Coasters and Brews legend himself.
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Coasting with Culture in Italy
July 4-14, 2023
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Part 1: The Journey to Milan
2023's big Coasting with Culture summer trip to visit various cultural sites and popular theme parks in Italy kicks off with the journey over to Europe by way of Condor Airlines to Frankfurt, and a chance to see some classic widebody planes while waiting for the quick hop down to Milan for the start of this Italian adventure.
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Part 2: Exploring Milan
This Italian adventure really gets underway with a day spent exploring the city center of Milan for sites like the Duomo di Milano and Galleria Vittorio Emanuelee, then heading to the first amusement park of the trip with an evening at EuroPark Milano Idroscalo, which had a bit of an unusual occurance on the first coaster ride.
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Part 3: Gardaland & Peschiera del Garda
Continuing on from Milan, the next part of the Italian adventure heads toward Lake Garda for a visit to the popular Gardaland theme park to try several coasters and rides, and spending some time in the nearby town of Peschiera del Garda and it's historic fort walls and Roman ruins.
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Part 4: Heading from Lake Garda to Rimini
On the day of continuing from Lake Garda over to Rimini, the chance to visit the other major park of Lake Garda, Movieland, offers a unique ride that would never exist in an American theme park, and has a stop in Bologna for a small indoor theme park designed and operated by the ride maker Zamperla. The day then ends with the arrival to the town of Rimini, and a few nearby fun fairs for a few more coasters to ride.
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Part 5: Mirabilandia & More of Rimini
The first full day in the Rimini area starts with a visit to one of the most anticipated parks of the trip, Mirabilandia, which has a coaster that was a great surprise. Then it continues on in a small town of the Rimini area with a couple smaller parks for more shameless coasters.
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Part 6: Fiabilandia and San Marino
With one more day in the Rimini area, the opportunity to ride a "historic" shameless coaster comes at an adorable family theme park, and then the afternoon offers the chance to enjoy some exhilerating views from the top of Monte Titano in a small landlocked country found within the borders of Italy.
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Part 7: Exploring Florence & Pisa
Continuing the visit in Italy from Rimini meant a day that was mostly about culture, with a few hours in Florence and Pisa to see several historic buildings. But a coupld coasters stops would be added along the way.
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Part 8: Coasters on the way to Rome
With one final extended drive to go in Italy, there were stops at three different parks for coasters, two of which had a coaster that had previously operated in a different country outside of Italy.
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Part 9: The Great Roman Coaster Hunt
Over the course of a day and a half, a MASSIVE coaster hunt takes place at multiple theme parks and amusement parks around the greater Rome area, including stops at MagicLand and Cinecittà World which both offer an excellent coaster to highlight their ride offerings.
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Part 10: Exploring Rome
After spending time in various cities and theme parks of Italy, the visit to this awesome country ends with some time in their historic capital city, for the opportunity to see some incredible ancient ruins, beautiful sculptures, and a chance to visit the home of a major world religion.
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Coasting with Culture in Tunisia
July 15-18, 2023
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Part 1: Seeking Tunisia's Coasters
Kicking off this first time visit to the North African Nation of Tunisia, it starts with the first couple days heading to various cities in the country to seek out as many of the country's roller coasters as can be found in that time, which offers so interesting sights along the way.
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Part 2: Exploring Around and In Tunis
With an extra day to spend in Tunisia, the opportunity to visit several historic and scenic locations around Tunis, including multiple runis in the historic Phoenician capital of Carthage, and great scenic views in Sidi Bou Said, and finally wandering around in Tunis itself before the flight home.
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Coasting with Culture in New England
August 16-19, 2023
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A Northeast Coaster Hunt
With news earlier in the year that a coaster at Santa's Village would be retiring at the end of the season, a chance came to fly out to Boston and drive up into Maine and New Hampshire for several parks with some coasters to ride, and a night's stay at a historic hotel in Portland.
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