Travel

By Maria Villarejo from Paraguay

If you are a lover of roller-coasters Six Flags is the place for you! There are more than twenty big roller-coasters that you can enjoy.

The place is open to public from 10:30 AM to 6:00 PM most days, but you can check in their open days in their official site. The price of the ticket can vary, depending on your age and how much advance time you buy it, too. There are also tickets for month or for all year.

They have the world’s longest hybrid coaster, almost 4 minutes of Ride Time in 5000 feet of track with two lift hills. This roller-coaster is called Twisted Colossus.

The tallest roller-coaster they have is called the LEX LUTHOR: Drop of Doom. The height of this attraction is 400 ft and the speed is 85 mph. To enter to this attraction you have to be 48 inches tall.

For children, this place also has small roller-coasters and places with games where all the family can play. Another positive thing is that they have a lot of restaurants inside the park, so if you are hungry you can go to one of them at any moment. They have a lot of stores where you can buy souvenirs or presents, too.

I went there three weeks ago with EF and it was a great experience. The best thing is that it is not too far from Santa Barbara. It is in Ventura, 1 hour and a half away from Santa Barbara.

By Julia Konttila,  Finland

Every time I step on an airplane, a ship or sit on the car I get this feeling of enthusiasm. It doesn’t matter whether I travel far or near, to the other side of the world, or just to a small city near me, experiencing something new always feels amazing. When I travel I can choose to live the life I have always wanted to live, without worries.

Many times when people travel they tend to focus too much on taking enough pictures or buying the perfect souvenirs. These things are great mementos from our journeys but the most important things that we take with us are not objects. Traveling teaches us more about the world and about ourselves than we could ever imagine. Traveling opens up our eyes and makes us think differently. It gives us life lessons which we can’t learn in school. Being in a new place gives us an opportunity to go outside our comfort zone, experience things for the first time and to meet new people. When we look back we often notice that the best moments were the ones which we didn’t plan. Finally, we have a chance to be spontaneous and not to follow our daily routines.

We all have probably had moments when life just feels too overwhelming and we feel like we need a break from everything and everyone. In other words, it is time to travel. When people hear the word traveling, they often think about something life-changing, something expensive, something that takes place in a different country or continent, but it doesn’t have to be like that. You can travel to a national park in your own city  or to a lake which is 20 minutes away from your house. You can explore and experience something new everyday, just by using your imagination. Go to a city which you have never visited before, take a different route to school, or go on a spontaneous bike ride or visit a museum in your own city.  Don’t wait for the next holiday or the next weekend, do it now. Someone once said to me “Never stop traveling.” I say “You don’t ever have to stop traveling.”