I decided to work on my website theme for a bit. In order to support it, today I shipped(with a minor bug, sorry), a new Indieweb plugin that adds the ability to add the rel-me links inside the h-card widget instead of by themselves. I’m now using it. In my theme, I added support for a dedicated h-card page. I’ll be turning it on on my site likely in future as I experiment with moving my feed off of my main page.
Parkeology Challenge November 2018
On Wednesday, November 28th, I participated in the Parkeology Challenge. It is a marathon of sorts where you try to ride every ride at Walt Disney World in a single day. That is 4 different parks, and 49 rides…although only 46 were in the challenge this week due long-term closures. You can only use things available to the average guest.
In order for the people who run Parkeology to certify the results, you have to provide a Twitter record of same. That was handled by one of my four teammates, but I kept a recording on my site of all of the locations I was in. This would be my timeline for the day. The pictures are backed up from the original challenge.
To see the individual posts, you can click here.
- 5:45AM – Wake up
- 6:30AM – Leave hotel room
- 6:56AM – Transportation and Ticket Center
- 7:25AM – Arrive Magic Kingdom Park – Opening not till 7:45AM
- 7:55AM – Ride 1 Main Street Vehicles
- 8:51AM – Disney’s Animal Kingdom
- 9:13AM – Ride 2 Avatar Flight of Passage
- 10:19AM – Ride 3 Kilimanjaro Safari
- 10:58AM – Ride 4 Kali River Rapids
- 11:20AM – Ride 5 Na’vi River Journey
- 11:42AM – Ride 6 Primeval Whirl
- 12:09PM – Ride 7 Triceratops Spin
- 12:23PM – Ride 8 Dinosaur
- 12:55PM – Ride 9 Expedition Everest
- 1:31PM – Arrive Hollywood Studios
- 1:40PM – Ride 10 Toy Story Mania
- 2:12PM – Ride 11 Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
- 2:35PM – Ride 12 Rock ‘N’ Roller Coaster
- 3:11PM – Ride 13 Slinky Dog Dash
- 3:31PM – Ride 14 Star Tours
- 3:54PM – Ride 15 Alien Swirling Saucers
- 4:48PM – Return to the Transportation and Ticket Center
- 5:00PM – Ride 16 Walt Disney World Railroad
- 5:11PM – Ride 17 Splash Mountain
- 6:03PM – Arrive Epcot
- 6:10PM – Ride 18 Journey into Imagination with Figment
- 6:23PM – Ride 19 Living with the Land
- 6:46PM – Ride 20 Soarin’
- 7:13PM – Ride 21 The Seas with Nemo and Friends
- 7:30PM – Ride 22 Mission: Space
- 8:23PM – Ride 23 Gran Fiesta Tour
- 8:32PM – Ride 24 Frozen Ever After
- 8:54PM – Ride 25 Test Track
- 9:22PM – Ride 26 Spaceship Earth
- 10:09PM – Arrive back at Magic Kingdom
- 10:15PM – Ride 27 Magic Carpets of Aladdin
- 10:22PM – Ride 28 Pirates of the Carribbean
- 10:43PM – Ride 29 Haunted Mansion
- 10:59PM – Ride 30 Prince Charming Carousel
- 11:06PM – Ride 31 Mad Tea Party
- 11:11PM – Ride 32 Dumbo the Flying Elephant
- 11:18PM – Ride 33 The Barnstormer
- 11:27PM – Ride 34 Tomorrowland Speedway
- 11:40PM – Ride 35 Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
- 11:52PM – Ride 36 Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
- 12:30PM – Meetup with the Other Teams
- 12:48AM – Ferry back to the Car
- 1:25AM – Arrive back at hotel
It was a day I can honestly say I will not soon forget.
Parkeology Challenge 2018 in Brief
“To all the awesome teams that ran the @Parkeology #parkeologychallenge today we offer a huge congratulations! It was freezing, rides broke down, hours were lost and you still crushed it! Thanks, we look forward to seeing you again soon!” via Twitter.
A few facts
- The Park Operating Hours for the Day Determines Difficulty. Less than 18 hours is considered Expert.
- The last completion of the challenge was August 18th, though there have been many attempts since.
- Over 39,000 steps
- Over 17 miles of walking
- The numbers above are based on my phone. My watch actually has a higher number.
- There were 10 teams competing that day. Only one other team had 4 people on it.
- The range of completed rides were 11-42. The other 4 person team got 42.
- 6 Teams Completed the 3 Parks We Did. It seems like a lot of people were looking to complete on that day, which is a rarity.
I figured out how to get the location and altitude from the JetBlue flyfi system in JSON form.
On my way home from Orlando.
Yesterday’s #parkeologychallenge was 19 hours of time from departure till return, over 17 miles of walking, and over 39000 steps.
Last ride of the night. 36 rides, 3 parks, didn’t get it all, but a good showing. #parkeologychallenge
And Epcot is closed out ..Three parks. #parkeologychallenge @parkeology
@Parkeology Grabbed a FP for our last HS ride saucers #parkeologychallenge
One more park down..Go team… whatever we are called.
I hate roller coasters, but I am surviving. #parkeologychallenge @parkeology
First park cleared. Second park…
Will have to go back and update my Parkeology posts with photos.
Ride 5 Navi. 4 was Kali River… don’t know how our tweeter is keeping up. #parkeologychallenge Keeping records for myself on my site and bootstrapping with Swarm
Ride 3 Killimanjaro Safari.
Ride 2 Avatar Flights of Passage. Long wait.