The Rest of 2020

At the time of my Magic Mountain trip, I realized that the virus was going to be a serious thing, and was going to require sacrificing some plans. It took me a little while to realize just how much effect it would have. Obviously, many people suffered much worse than I did in 2020. I already worked from home, so it was relatively easy for me. Carole adjusted to working from home pretty easily, and because Alex was older, we didn’t have the difficulties with remote schooling that a lot of parents had. However, Alex lost the end of his senior year of high school, and was only at college for a few weeks before he decided to do the rest of the semester at home. Our plan to vacation in Scotland in June was scrapped, but it was a non-coaster-related trip.

Looking strictly at a coaster perspective, CoasterCon 2020 was supposed to be held in my area, but that was called off. It overlapped with my planned trip to Scotland, so I would have missed most of it anyway. It’s been rescheduled for 2021, so hopefully that will work out. I had made plans to go to Orlando, primarily to visit Busch Gardens Tampa for Iron Gwazi, but that was called off. So the flight voucher I earned in Jamaica is still sitting in my account, over 18 months later. I had also tentatively planned a trip to Holiday World, Kentucky Kingdom, and Kings Island, to make up for the trip I canceled in 2019, but that didn’t happen either. After March, none of my usual conferences happened, so I couldn’t take advantage of the travel to visit any parks. Closer to home, I’d planned to ride Candymonium and Jersey Devil, but neither of those happened. Candymonium opened, but I’d already decided not to visit any parks until a vaccine became available. Jersey Devil still isn’t finished construction at the time of this writing, on the last day of 2020. As of this moment, it’s looking like vaccine distribution is going slower than expected, so making any plans for the summer of 2021 would be premature.