Ben wrote:The other plan is that we finally make it to Disney World in 2018 instead, having been to California twice but - gasp! - never Florida (some in the family have done that twice, I've been waiting until I can really do it right and well), so that might be on the cards instead. But right now I'm putting together the mother of all home theaters and that's sucking up major holiday moolah at the moment, so maybe even 2018 is optimistic!
My longest absence was six-year gap from '08-'14, and speaking from experience, the new Magic Band technology (and reserving all your Fastpasses online six weeks ahead) will take a lot of getting used to....GOOD, but takes getting used to.
Oh, and for those who used to be able to walk Fantasyland blindfolded, even just on California geography, Florida's changed the geography around a bit, four years ago.
I don't think I've mentioned this is the public forums yet, but I'm moving to live near Disney World!
Several years ago my wife and I started thinking about the idea and since then have started working out how to make it happen with a goal of moving in the summer of 2022. Last month she started looking for jobs down there, thinking it would take awhile. But she found a perfect one almost immediately. We leave next week to move her into her apartment! I'll be coming back and staying in Tennessee until my son graduates high school and the house sells.
But in eight days I'll technically have a home near Disney World!
And what he didn't mention is that his wife's work is blocks from where I used to live. And that the former (I assume) head nurse there used to work with me, as well. Small world.
Have a great trip! And good luck to wifey, starting her new job!
I used to dream of moving to Orlando, too--at least in the pre-DeSantis years when Florida wasn't too goofy--but with my luck, if I had, it would have been JUST in time for the new skyrocketing prices at the parks under Bob Chapek permanently pricing themselves out of most average guests' windows.
