Your Favorite Roller Coaster Not in Your Own Country

Roller Coaster Challenge Day 8 – Your favorite roller coaster not in your own country

Steel Dragon 2000, Nagashima Spa Land, Japan

Steel Dragon is the one and only correct answer to this category.  The photo reminds me of a centipede climbing a mountain, but really no picture can give the scaling of Steel Dragon justice as it is MASSIVE: 318 feet worth of massive, meaning it is still the world's tallest lift-hill roller coaster 11 years after its debut.

Holding a coaster record that long is almost unheard of. Not only that, but it also the world's LONGEST roller coaster after 11 years, running for almost four minutes. The lift hill is so grand, it requires two chain lifts before the train merges with the clouds.

I have never ridden this, but it is likely the world's best coaster: Giant hills, 95 mph of speed, a great looking twisting section, and TEN airtime hills on the way to the station. To me this is the holy grail of roller coasters, and I hope I can make a pilgrimage to Japan sometime to get on this 52 million dollar beast.

Psalm 47: 1-9

When we join the Christian family, God becomes our Daddy, our Friend. But beware lest we start viewing Him as some kind of cosmic Santa who is obligated to answer our whims and prayers. (I just read that the Lord is not like a Santa who gives us stuff, but a SuperHero who frees us from stuff.)

Meditating on the Psalms helps us not fall into that trap of making God into our image. He is the great and glorious one. He is the great King over all the people.  Are we afraid of other nations? Are we fearful that our inheritance will be ripped away from us? Those fears are small things compared to the one who sits on the Holy throne.

God is exalted above all else, all nations, all kings. Even the awesome universe that we get a glimpse of through our grand Hubble telescope is the creation, not the creator. May His praise be on our lips every day!