TD/Allianz Insurance (via telephone; 10:15am ( Read more... )

Our room.  Kid #2’s ear is a little better than yesterday, so we decide not to find out whether our “Foreign travel medical insurance” actually works.  The USA is a nasty country to get sick in - they let uninsured people die in the gutter of treatable illnesses - so we’d rather not try our luck with the foreign insurance unless truly necessary.
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[My HOTTEST DAY *EVER* at Disney World!  97°F *before* factoring in humidity!  Ontario, Ohio, Florida - doesn’t make a difference, it’s been over 90 every day of this trip.  And Hollywood Studios is the hottest of the parks because its many tall buildings and excessive quantities of asphalt create an “urban canyon” effect.]

Ink and ( Read more... )

[Today begins with the discovery that I cannot find my keyring (none of the keys are in use here in Florida) and ends with the discovery of the keyring in the “receipts” pouch of my suitcase, where it should have been all along (and presumably actually *was* there all along, despite my inability to find it).]

W. Osceola Parkway.  $1 in tolls, ( Read more... )

Staybridge Suites (10:49am).  We did place the “Do Not ( Read more... )

September 6, 2015.  The big day is finally here!  This trip has been planned for over two years now, since soon after my mother-in-law died and we started trying to decide what to do with the inheritance.  Well, after almost two years the lawyers finally ran out of excuses and let go of the money.
      I had wanted to fly on Allegiant Airlines ( Read more... )

Over the next two weeks, this journal will be taken over by a travelogue of my recent trip to the Walter E. Disney memorial World of amusement parks.  You might want to remove me from your default feed if you don't want to see stuff like

• OMG IT'S SO HOT!!!
• I am old.  The 21st century is a strange place.
• Disney's corporatist hegemony creates a class- ( Read more... )