7/31 Pittsburgh. When we were at home still, the kids researched that this business park was built on the grounds of an eerie mental institution, and yesterday they went on an expedition and found the only thing that’s left of it, an old graveyard, now behind some super clean office buildings.

Kennywood. Some quite interesting coasters. Not only the Steel Curtain, the tallest coaster in the park and obviously its headline with nine inversions, but also that tiny oval of Jack Rabbit, built in 1920 by the inventor of today’s roller coasters, with that little bump of airtime which, at the time, must have felt like an astoundingly perplexing achievement. At the same time my grandmother was five and the Titanic had sunk eight years ago.