5/19 Liseberg. I had prepared myself to go on Helix, and then at a moment’s notice, because Helix was closed for a few minutes, my daughter suggested we’d do a quick Valkyria. I drowned in fear. It took me 10 minutes to muster the strength. But we did it, and we did Helix afterwards, and I’m really beginning to feel more excitement than fear, or a fear that is also pure excitement.

And yes, I am still taking a mild tranquilizer, but it looks like I can phase that out soon.

These coasters: As if a giant, invisible hand grabbed you, and not actually pushed you through the tracks, but carried you through space along arcs of which the steel tracks are only a material approximation.