Elaina and I have begun going on more and more roller coaster “adventures,” as she would call them in recent years. Our friendship began from us being coworkers and today she is one of my more trusted friends. Like me, she is very artistic and creative. We have always bonded over that, but more and more we find ourselves bonding over riding some bad-ass roller coasters and getting new credits whenever we can.

One of our more recent trips to Busch Gardens Williamsburg (BGW) in July of 2019, ee talked about all kinds of things on the way down. Most of it was about coasters, credits, and amusement parks in general. She played some YouTube videos from Airtime Thrills and Coaster Studios and we talked about their views, which matched some of my own. I could really tell she was getting more and more into coasters that day. Also during that trip, we made a stop at Fun Land of Fredericksburg just to nab a credit on Twist-N-Shout.

I fully expect to see Elaina’s rank rise in the years to come. At the start of 2020, she was constantly telling me to tag along with her on some trips to California and Florida to visit new parks and grab a bunch of credits that I don’t yet have. Sadly, the Covid-19 pandemic put a lot of those plans on hold. We’ll just have to save those for the future! As much as she loves BGW, however, I’m sure she’s going to be along to ride Pantheon with me and some of the site’s other crew members, namely Sam, Greg, Chris D., and Carrie.