bobbiwoz
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- Joined
- Aug 26, 2003
In the late 1980’s - early 1990’s we rented the FW trailers a few times. It was the perfect arrangement for us and our two sons. We loved being in the woods, close to the night time campfire and movies.Twinklebug, I could of written this post! Maybe we met in the 70's? We camped at Fort Wilderness when I was a kid. We lived in Florida, so we would at times spend weekends at the Fort. I remember the train (I have a picture of it somewhere that I actually think I posted on here once). Funny thing is that as a child, I don't think I realized that we were even on the same property with the Magic Kingdom! We had a pop up camper and camping was a way for us to travel cheaply. We bought an RV last year, and we have our first Fort Wilderness reservations in November. I'm probably more excited about that trip, than the one we have at the end of March. I regret that my kids will never get to experience it. I keep hoping that they might get to show up for a few days, but they all have other places to be at this age. Now that I'm retired from teaching, I've contemplated doing the Disney travel agent thing. Let me know if you find out anything worth looking into.
Granny, I sure hope that next trip works out for you and your wife. I know several groupies have had to cancel, but your input here is still what makes this thread a great place to come back to. Sleepy, I guess I was MIA when you left teaching and went to work for Disney. I always love to read your input. The current state of Disney makes me sad for the future, but I sure hope there are brighter days ahead. I do wonder if the younger generation will ever feel about Disney like we do? A friend posted the other day on Facebook that they were surprising their teenage child with a day at a theme park in Orlando. She wanted recommendations for which park to choose. Overwhelmingly the people's vote on the thread was Universal. I put HS, and so did a few others, but I just don't think Disney is where it's at for the older teenage, young adult age group.
Only once did my parents overlap with our time at WDW. We had the rental trailer and my parents and DSis stayed at GF. Well, there was one very rainy day and we all 7 of us stayed inside playing card games in the trailer. Our sons loved this special time, especially with my Dad who passed shortly after that wonderful trip.