There is a camaraderie with doing something crazy like this. Several times, Hawkins and Lindsay recognize other challengers on the same quest and encourage them. “You do have chances to sit down on rides. You’re not stopping,” Hawkins warned me beforehand. I feel bad enough asking Hawkins and Lindsay to stop every few hours for bathroom breaks. I don’t have time to buy a cup of coffee. Listening to the narrator describe how plants are helpful for society makes my eyes heavy on Living with the Land. There are actually 49 rides in all, but three are down for renovations.Īt Epcot, I feel a wave of tiredness around lunchtime, six hours into the challenge. The game requires that we post photos on Twitter of every ride we successfully encounter.
We follow certain rules, like not asking Disney employees for special favors and always stay together as a team. Part of the Parkeology Challenge means dealing with the unforeseen, like the Everest ride delay. “We are doing fine, guys,” Hawkins tries to reassure us as we decide the latter and venture to Epcot. We face a choice: Stay and wait an unknown amount of time? Or return to Animal Kingdom later in the day just to ride the only one we are missing? Neither option is particularly good. We pepper employees with questions, clues when it will open if at all. There is a weird silence coming from the roller coaster. We land a rare FastPass for Flight of Passage, a thrilling ride that draws long waits.īut the cold brings unexpected trouble.
The line at Na’vi River Journey at Animal Kingdom is non-existent. Var parentDoc=,resizeFrame=function() ("resize",resizeFrame,!1) Their pace is steady, darting around double-wide strollers and couples holding hands. Lindsay and Hawkins jog slow enough to not get yelled at by Disney workers. They dart from park to park using Uber, the Monorail and Lindsay’s car where a cooler is stashed with Gatorade and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
“Only 45 more to go,” Lindsay says cheerfully as we hurry to Animal Kingdom next. 1 on your list.”īut it only runs early in the morning, so Hawkins and Lindsay knock it off the list at 7:51 a.m. “As a normal guest visiting Disney,” Tamburo said.
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