Retired and Happy (Ken)

We have two trips to DW planned for 2016. One in the summer, and one for Thanksgiving. Staying in the MH in Sevierville in the summer and using Veteran's Blvd to avoid much traffic. In a "cabin" for Thanksgiving off 321 in Gatlinburg. We gotta find some of those nooks and crannies DIT has explored at DW.

Any progress on getting it back, or finding the perps?

Is the "Streets" area still closed or was that a temporary measure to allow them to remove the "Lights"?

Your shot including the Empire State Building looks like it it lit at the top with the French colors. When we were there in daylight, it looked like it was painted up there.

I'm guessing Pecos Bill's.

Early one evening we walked down the Avenue and looked for the "Singing in the Rain" light pole...no Singer. A CM was there and told us that area was closed and we would have to go back our the way we went in...by the Writers Shop, or whatever it's called. By the time we got back there they had roadblocks up and were not letting anyone else in. I guess we were among the last paying customers to see the Lights, although they were not lit at the time. It was kinda eerie to be there with almost no one else in sight. The night we saw the Lights lit the crowds were so thick it was hard to sto

We went through security gates/tables for a month (Dec/Jan) with no scanners imposed. It didn't seem to matter whether we had bags to be checked or not. Not sure what the criteria was for checking...so many an hour? We did see the EZ Ups with the CSC people in their yellow shirts, but very few being ushered towards the scanners. I did see one family of four get scanned...sorta a DIT looking guy, smiling a lot.

Kidatheart, Welcome, and War Eagle!

Swim, Glad to hear you had the foresight to position your property 3500 feet from a potential tornado end point.

And with all this technology in the MB's, we each had to get a plastic card saying we are AP holders just to get the meager discounts some places offer.

Thanks for the ST-LT info. We tow a 12 foot cargo trailer. A couple years ago we had a leak, discovered at a rest stop. The repair truck put on an LT tire in place of the ST we had been running. Now, on our recent trip, we had another slow leak (the LT), discovered at a campground. Airing it up allowed us to get home with it. Still don't know why it leaked, but I am ready to replace both tires. Sounds like I should look for some good LT tires of appropriate size,

When I turned in modem package 91A on Jan 9th, I told the CM at the TP to save it for me in July. He said I won't need it by then, that they are projecting March for the WiFi installation, and they are ahead of schedule, likely completion in February. Related topic?: I was in 1004, next to the path to the 900 CS. On the 1005(?) side of the path, there was a wooden pole. I had assumed it was a dead tree the bark had fallen from. On closer examination, it is a commercial pole that has been cleaned of any bark, and perhaps rot protected. Is this one of the poles of which a few of you spea

Just for the storage aspect...our dinettes have had drawers under the dinette seats. They were quite deep, but we always overloaded them. We now have a table and chairs. Table fastened to the wall and floor and big enough for two chairs and Shawnee's wheelchair at the end. No bed, but we never used the dinette bed anyway.

They have gotten enough money from us in the past couple of weeks to keep them afloat for a while.

We're in 1004. Kinda small for our decorative enthusiasm. We rode through 100/200/300 a few days ago, but only saw Dave, The Castle Guy's FF signin the 700 loop.

We participated in the Christmas GC Parade today. It seemed to be well received by the onlookers, and they enjoyed the toys and such we threw to threw kids. Not a lot of elaborate decorating done for these carts...lights, garland, some more than others and a few with more elaborate applications. They didn't have a designated end point, so many of us just made a second loop around the main streets, before we stopped by "home" to drop off some long sleeves and go on to looping. i don't know if they had any "winner" or not. It looked like there were maybe 30-40 entries and everyone had a go

We saw on local TV that Disney and other major entertainment houses had implemented metal detectors and other additional security measures. We went to EPCOT the next day and saw no changes in security. Of course we don't know what was going on behind the scenes, but there were no metal detectors or wands. Make no mistake, sadly there is a need for such measures. Sad, but true.

We're at the Fort now. We have two flatscreen tv's an RCA and a Vizio. The RCA is about two years old and the Vizio was just installed after we arrived here this December. We also have the missing channel problem on both sets. Around 20-x until 55-1. The missing ones all programmed in the scans as mentioned above but produced only a channel number and a blue screen with a "No Signal" box.... and IIRC, all had HD in their titles. They may be the same as ther upper channels...55-1 to 66-4. To be sure, you can receive all the Disney stations...and the ESPN stations except SEC. Last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic8zMkYwnq8

That thing looks like the monster TV hanging in the front of my MH. What happens if you accidently clip the power wires?

Beckers had a "seeping kid". :flush2:

And if you bring it on the (vehicle) roof, better have it tightly covered or it will be dry firestarter when you get it there.

We have always used Enterprise when we needed a rental at the Fort. They would pick me up at my campsite and drop me back there later. The office was located on Hotel Plaza Blvd last time I used them. Alamo insisted I meet them at checkin and that's where they dropped me off.

Anyone know if the back door directions into the Fort are posted around here for Adam in case he might want a easier way in? (that is the directions coming down 429)

Kristie, No, unfortunately our kids have to be back in school Jan. 5th.. We will have already kept them out a couple weeks prior to Christmas. We plan to get there around Dec 9th and out by Jan 3rd. Jersey, As mentioned above all sites have electricity, water, and cable connections. Tent sites do not have sewer connections. I'm sure you know better than I how different weather could affect your kids, so plan accordingly if necessary. If you bring a small TV, you will need to provide the cable to the post. You will also likely need extension cords with multiple outlets to power your in