CCIntrigue...aka Gwen

I just found a deal!  New Nikon D7500 will arrive at the Fort on Monday!

I just found a deal!  New Nikon D7500 will arrive at the Fort on Monday!

Lunch:


 

Yesterday we drove over 500 miles.  Stopped in St. Augustine and spent the night at the Flying J.  Left there this morning around 5:30 and arrived at the Fort a couple of hours later.  Boy, is it crowded here!
Went over to the MK to activate our annual passes.  Walked down Main Street.  It was insane.
We are on site 704 until December 11.  Look forward to seeing you!  Please stop by if you're in the neighborhood!

Ate there Sunday.  Kept wishing I could see her smiling face one more time.  Happy retirement!
 

Before we permanently relocated to Florida we made a yearly trek from Maryland to Florida. First, we stayed in hotels on our southern drive as we always stayed at a Disney on property resort. More truth in advertising, I haven't stayed at the Fort since 1976. Now that that's out of the way I'll combine the two. We've made more than a few southern trips from Maryland to Florida in our RV. Mostly to Naples and Tallahassee but the breakaway has either been 10 across or I-4 out of Jacksonville. Soooo... the southern route. We take 95 south to Rt 301 and cross the Harry Nice bridge to King George VA. I personally hate 95 in northern VA so much that I pay a $36 toll to cross what I call "ass clencher bridge". 
If you're coming from further north you might consider Americamps RV resort in Richmond VA. Very nice place and Big Rig friendly. Not a place we stop at on all trips south.
Our first stop from leaving home was Fayettville RV Resort In Fayettville NC. All our stops are big rig friendly, and they are all just off of I-95. The last stop south is Coastal Georgia RV Resort. It's in the area of Brunswick. From there, it a short 3 hour trip to Disney.
All of the places mentioned above have nice facilities and full hook up level sites. 
I'd post some pictures of each but there is a size limit that's way smaller than anything I have. 
Hope this helps somebody who might be in the planning stage looking for a nice overnight stop. All are nice for a bit of a stay as well.

I'm not in a wheelchair, but I have to use a scooter.  In MK, the only rides that I have problems on are POtC, Peter Pan,  and Buzz Lightyear.  They require me to park my scooter quite a distance away and walk through the queue.  I know on Buzz Lightyear that wheelchairs are available through the queue.  Not sure about POtC or Peter Pan.  Don't remember seeing wheelchairs available at either location.  

No problems in EPCOT or AK.  In HS there are special viewing areas for Indiana Jones and Fantasmic.  Back door access at Star Tours.  Special accessibility ramp at TSM.   

Lots of info on My Disney Experience.  If you need more help, please let me know.

Oh, to be young and fearless again!  Or maybe not.

For those of you who haven't seen my FaceBook posts, Gabe and his team won the SC AAAAA state basketball championship again this year!  David and I were fortunate to attend the game last Friday night at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, SC.  I ordered several copies of the Spartanburg SC newspaper yesterday and can't wait to see them, but I think this photo of Gabe was featured on the sports page:

And if anyone would like to see highlights of the game, here's a link:  Dorman vs Irmo 5A State Championship Game
It's great to be the grandmother of a two-time state champion!

Carol, I so agree with you!  We also purchase an annual pass every two years.  Go one year for a month, go the next year for a month the month before our passes expire.  So we get two months' admission on each AP.  

Carol, I so agree with you!  We also purchase an annual pass every two years.  Go one year for a month, go the next year for a month the month before our passes expire.  So we get two months' admission on each AP.  

For those of you who haven't seen my FaceBook posts, Gabe and his team won the SC AAAAA state basketball championship again this year!  David and I were fortunate to attend the game last Friday night at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, SC.  I ordered several copies of the Spartanburg SC newspaper yesterday and can't wait to see them, but I think this photo of Gabe was featured on the sports page:

And if anyone would like to see highlights of the game, here's a link:  Dorman vs Irmo 5A State Championship Game
It's great to be the grandmother of a two-time state champion!

For those of you who haven't seen my FaceBook posts, Gabe and his team won the SC AAAAA state basketball championship again this year!  David and I were fortunate to attend the game last Friday night at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, SC.  I ordered several copies of the Spartanburg SC newspaper yesterday and can't wait to see them, but I think this photo of Gabe was featured on the sports page:

And if anyone would like to see highlights of the game, here's a link:  Dorman vs Irmo 5A State Championship Game
It's great to be the grandmother of a two-time state champion!

If she wanted to advertise she would. 
She doesn't call attention to herself, and I think this thread should be deleted. 
TCD

Sorry for the downvotes, but please leave this lady alone. 
She intentionally does not call attention to herself. 
Yall admit you don't know her  
Leave her be  
TCD

When our kids were young we went in August every year.  The heat and humidity were no worse in FL than they were here in NC.  We'd hit the parks early in the mornings, spend the afternoons at the Fort, and go back to the parks after dinner.  Always had a great time.

Our reservations are for 11/11 - 12/11.  Looks like we'll be able to see some of you at Thanksgiving!

Have you considered looking at used units? Depreciation on a new moho in the first couple of years is tremendous.
We love our Class A. But it all depends on your family unit and the layout. Keep looking until you find the right unit at the right price.

On Tuesday we left the cabin around 9:30 thinking we'd have plenty of time to make our first FP+ which expired at 10:30.
We were wrong.  
There was a huge line of people waiting for the boat.  But the boat didn't have room for our two scooters.  Lots of people in line behind us got onto the boat, but we were told we'd have to wait for the next trip.  One boat was down for maintenance, and so they were only running one boat, and it would be 20-25 minutes before they could get back for us.
 

So we sat and chatted at one of the tables near the dock.  And of course I started snapping photos.



After a really long wait, we finally made it onto a boat.

And arrived at MK around 11:00 ...


 

More pictures from Disney Springs:





Oops, sorry, Jean Ann.  I focused on the wrong thing:





 

After getting settled into the cabin, we made a quick stop at the Meadow Trading Post.


Then we went to Disney Springs for lunch.  We decided to eat at:


The rest of the group opted for sandwiches:

But I couldn't resist the sides:

The Brussels sprouts with whiskey-caramel were amazing.  Then I tasted the BBQ cauliflower with paprika sour cream.  Wow!  It was even better!  And then I tasted the tomato and watermelon salad with feta, basil, and pickled onion.  I was in heaven.  
After lunch we shopped and just wandered around.

Jean Ann checked us into the cabin.  Mary and I picked up our ECVs, and Jean Ann picked up the golf cart.   It didn't take much more than an hour after we landed before we were in our cabin! 
Ever wonder what a disability access cabin looks like?

Continuing through World Showcase.  Then I got near the American Adventure, and traffic stopped cold.  It was shoulder-to-shoulder people, and no one could move.  I sat in the same spot for several minutes.  It was so bad that a man behind me jokingly offered to pay me to mow some of the people down and create a path for us.




I was starving.  Had only had a breakfast bar and an order of onion rings all day.  But the lines at the food booths were so long that I just kept going.








I finally found a food booth with no line -- New Zealand -- and stopped there for a lamb meatball.  That was my dinner.  Then I made my way back to Future World.






I said goodnight to EPCOT and caught a bus back to the Fort.
 
 

At that point I had a decision to make.  Jean Ann, Ceil, and Mary had already gone to EPCOT.  They were going to visit some F&WF booths for dinner and then go a dessert party which included viewing Illuminations and then a ride on Frozen.  I really wanted to see Pandora at night, but the area was becoming way too crowded to get decent pictures.  I had paid for a park hopper that I hadn't used, and I wanted to take some nighttime shots at EPCOT too, so I decided EPCOT couldn't be as crowded as Pandora and headed over there.
Again, I was wrong.  Future World wasn't too bad.





Once I made the turn into the World Showcase, the crowd tripled.  That's why you will see lots of photos of the tops of the buildings and not the whole thing. 






 
 

Every morning when we walked out on the deck we found this little guy:

I guess he/she was enjoying the heat from the light
Wednesday was our Animal Kingdom/EPCOT day.  Our original plan was for all of us to go to AK, then Jean Ann and I would leave around 11:00 to come back to the campground.  We were having a visitor.  But we got a late start, and jean Ann and I decided to stay at the Fort, do a little shopping, and clean up the cabin.
We went to the Meadow Trading Post.




 




i rode my scooter back to the cabin.  It really is a nice ride.





And i was home ...

Around 12:30 our visitor arrived, and we had a great time talking to him.

After Lou left for work, we went over to AK and met Ceil and Mary at Flame Tree for a snack.  They had spent the morning seeing Lion King.
Next up was Pandora.  I've seen Avatar a couple of times and seen lots of photos of Pandora, but it was definitely not what I was expecting!  It was small, stark,  gnarly, and rugged.  I expected a lot more flowers and beauty than it has in the daytime.  









More Pandora pictures to come.