Day: January 24, 2024

WDP — Great America Park

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Bloganuary writing prompt
Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.
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When I was a kid I used to love going to amusement parks. My first experience with a large roller coaster was at the old Glen Echo Park in a Maryland suburb of Washington, DC. Since then I’ve been to amusement parks all over the country, including nearly all of the Six Flags and Great America parks. Plus, of course, Disneyland and Disney World.

Back in 2010, we moved to San Francisco. The closest “major” amusement park is California Great America Park in Santa Clara, which was about a 45 minute drive from where we lived. A decade later we moved to an East Bay suburb, putting us about an hour away from the park. But we’ve never been there.

The park has fallen upon hard times and the land has been sold to a developer who plans to tear down the park and build mixed-use housing, office, and retail space. But the park will likely remain open until 2030, if it survives that long.

At this point, it’s unlikely that we will visit California Great America Park. It’s closed now and doesn’t reopen until the end of March. And even then, it’s only open from Wednesday through Sundays. But we are planning on going to Disneyland later this year with our son, daughter-in-law, and our two grandkids. Woo Hoo!

Judy’s Numbers Game — #6

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Judy Dykstra-Brown has come up with a new weekly prompt for the new year that she calls “The Numbers Game.” This week’s number is 126. To play along, go to our photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in Judy’s Numbers Game blog of the week.

I have close to 10,000 images in my WordPress Media Library. So it’s not surprising that I had 38 photos that met the “126” criterion. All of the photos below have appeared in my blog posts. Some are photos or screenshots that I took. A few were generated by AI art apps, but most are photos I grabbed from free photo sources like Pixabay, Pexels, Pinterest, Unsplash, or Google photos.

FOWC with Fandango — Rate

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FOWC

Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).

Today’s word is “rate.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, ÿplease manually add your link in the comments.

And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.