Absolutely beautiful Halloween Day at Fort Wilderness. It's 74F, blue sky, warm, and I haven't seen a bug or skeeter since we got here.
Before lunch today Dad and I went for a little joyride via boat and monorail with the plan to ride to EPCOT and back (which we did). Sure was relaxing.
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By the way, while I am type this I am listening to a bluegrass album that has four songs that play on the background loop at the Fort - Bela Fleck's The Bluegrass Sessions - Tales from the Acoustic Planet Volume 2.
When you get off the big boat at the MK dock from the Fort, there are two security gates. It moved very quickly.
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The MK has a Mickey's Not So Scary tonight and tomorrow night so it is all decked out in orange.
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As I said, we were just joyriding so we didn't go in MK. But we did head over to the monorail station to ride to the TTC and transfer to the EPCOT line.
When we were riding back, I got two pix of the construction work around the MK Toll Booths. Here you can see the flyovers being built to take hotel resort guests to their destination directly without going through the toll booths. At the bottom you can see the ramp that's pulling off for Fort Wilderness. Note it already has a bar over it to prevent Randy from loading his golf cart on top of his toy hauler.
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In the next picture you can see the new ramp just to the right of the retention pond and to the right of that is the old straight line ramp that ran to the STOL runway. It will be nice not having to go through the booths and try to GET RIGHT RIGHT NOW for the turn onto Vista Blvd.
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It was warm and sunny enough to sit up front in the boat leaving MK to go back to the Fort.
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Like serenitygr says, coming into the Fort dock feels like returning home.
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There were swimmers in the pool this afternoon. The lifeguards had put away their stocking caps and jackets for Ray Bans and Coppertone.
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The limbo contest was just getting started on the pool deck. Maybe we should incorporate this activity into the Gulf Shores DISmeet? It would definitely be entertaining!
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A Bama Ed Fort trip wouldn't be complete without a Meadow Trading Post domestic 6-pack beer price update. $16 now.
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Things are calm here. It's the calm before the storm.
Bama Ed