ependydad...Doug

When we bought tickets to Disneyland for last week, my wife used some kind of Last Minute Tourist site. It looked sketchy as all heck but saved us a fair amount of money and was the cheapest we found.

We consumed MANY Mickey Pretzels! And a handful of ice treats. And corn on the cob... AND A MONTE CRISTO!

Too funny! We were at Disneyland Hotel from Sept 16-20 and then Anaheim RV Park from 20-26. We went to the first Mickey's Halloween Party on the 20th (I'll have pictures for that eventually- our costumes were awesome!).

Thanks. I think that’s fixed.

If anyone wants to follow along, I’m uploading pictures from our recent DL visit to Flickr. I’m overloaded busy and can’t write up a proper trip report. But I am culling and uploading pictures a handful at a time. The Flickr link is here: https://flickr.com/photos/7200488@N08/sets/72157688857640326 So far I’ve uploaded: - our arrival at Disneyland Hotel - an evening at Disneyland - a day at Disneyland And I’m starting on our first day at Disney’s California Adventure. I’ve uploaded a few misc shots and the new Frozen Live Musical (which r

We have started to. I found that I get less and less restful sleep when staying at Walmarts and truck stops- I thought it was mental, the papa bear in me being protective of the family. BUT- we started to notice a pattern that the night before moves, I'd often pull up the rear stabilizers (leaving just the front landing gear) and again started getting less and less restful sleep. We are fairly certain, it's a matter of our wiggly worms of kids in the back- when they roll over, it rocks and bounces the camper around. That movement is stirring my sleep (but not quite waking me up).

The pass near Denver is long. A good 6% grade for many miles and at the top goes to Eisenhower tunnel. We did it westward (Colorado to Utah/Moab) and I drove up it doing 35mph. Came down it about the same speed in a lower gear (as recommended). Otherwise, it's a beautiful drive. We were sad to have done a large part of it at night. We slept at a Flying J near Vale, CO.

I think they do. I know fulltime families who have used it for their week out of the Thousand Trails network. Might be worth a call to them.

We've stayed at both Lake Magic and Thousand Trails and use the back-way in. Both are decent, though I like the Thousand Trails a little more than Lake Magic.

20 miles down the road is Pecan Park. We've stayed here multiple times- get a Passport America discount and it's an affordable overnight stop. Paved pulled thrus make it an easy overnight. Or a little further down the road, we stayed at Stagecoach RV in St. Augustine, FL. We hadn't stayed here before but would go back. Friendly folks and long pull-thrus.

We took our son when he was 4 and he LOVED it.

Ok, I recently made the drive from Florida to Utah. But, our routing was a little different because we were meandering and visiting people. Do you boondock? Or do you need full hookups? How far are you comfortable driving in a day? Camp Gulf Destin, FL Meaher State Park Mobile, AL Cherokee Farms RV Service Center Foley, AL Cherokee Farms RV Service Center Foley, AL Meaher State Park Mobile, AL Millbrook Walmart Millbrook, AL Monte Sano

I don't know about Uber rates, but I can definitely tell you that it's more than taxis. I can usually get around anywhere we've gone on property for $10-15 when we take taxis. Sure it's a yellow mears taxi without Disney branding.. but...

My guess is that they're in the death-throws already to pull something so short-sighted. Given the reports of site crashes as people download- my guess is they're ripe for a bargain basement buyout OR shuttering their doors servers soon.

I thought Jason posted something on his FB page about a Uber-style Disney van. I wasn't sure if he was being serious or if I was missing something. Sounds legit.

Yup. We tried getting in there after our debacle w/o cell service at Mountaindale. But they were booked up for the weekends and we didn't feel like multiple moves over 2 weeks.

About 10 minutes down the road from there is Mountaindale, a private RV park. I don't recall their rate, but my guess is that it was in the ballpark of $50/night. Very pretty. But basically no cell service- a booster only mildly helped.

It included the metal detectors, though too. So you still had to queue up and walk through. Annoying because every other time, my wife would have to stop and get wanded for her Pandora bracelet. (Though, she wore it every time- the machines were just differently sensitive.)

Overall, I like that they've spread it out and you don't have a mass of people all at one place. What I don't like is when you're staying at a Monorail resort - you have to go through security every time you get on the Monorail, even if you aren't headed to MK.

Good stuff everyone. We are coming down California out of Oregon along the coast to San Francisco. We are staying the the San Francisco RV Resort in Pacifica. It's a parking lot atmosphere, but the proximity is right in the thick of everything. Once we leave SF, we beat feet to head east towards Albuquerque in time for the Balloon Festival. There's some rumblings about maybe adjusting dates slightly to try and get down to Anaheim for Disneyland, but we'll see. We were trying to get to ABQ a week early (which is still a full week ahead of the Balloon Fiesta) to explore some sights there. S

Looks fairly pricey to get the 4 of us in. But, I'm betting dollars to donuts that we'll end up going. If anyone has any other San Francisco recommendations, I'm all ears.

Has anyone been? Or know anything about it? It just came up on Google Maps as I was virtually exploring San Francisco. http://waltdisney.org/

I thought I had read that it was for the paved portion only and did NOT include the shell area.

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week. ... ... waiting in line for the Avatar ride.

Wow, it's like you have a view into my bedroom...