by Eddie Pipkin
My wife and I took a little excursion over to SeaWorld to ride the new roller coaster, Penguin Trek. It’s always a thrill to ride a new ride for the first time, and beyond the experience of the coaster itself, part of the fun is always checking out how they’ve themed the area and the queue. The last 50 yards of the waiting line included a bridge over the coaster tracks and a descent down some stairs to an open loading area between the bottom of the stairs and the gate area to board individual coaster cars. We watched as people got to the bottom of the stairs and froze. There was no direction to stop, no signage to stop, no reason to stop; but since the