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Love your names for the three areas of your town and can't get over the name "FunkyTown" as all I can do is think about that pop hit of the same name by one hit wonder Lipps Inc. from the early 80's. Always liked that song.
Your town is so beautiful, rural and peaceful....how can one go wrong by living here?
The names are really just for my neighborhood. The city is very much a southern city big town, but we're a bit away from the city center and our county is quite large, one of the largest of Kentucky's 120 counties.
What great Disney World memorabilia! And a great back story too! I know what you mean about old scrapbooks and the contents falling out. We were going through some boxes in the attic a few months ago and found that my scrapbooks from the 70s had done that same thing. But I put them all in a bin and kept them anyway.
I mainly had kept movie stubs and programs to events I attend so most of the scrapbook was really quite boring. But the Disney pieces were a sweet find. A few years ago we pulled out our college photo albums and Luke discovered he still had a couple of ticket stubs from WDW. I couldn't figure out why I didn't have mind as I had totally forgotten about the scrapbook.
The names are really just for my neighborhood. The city is very much a southern city big town, but we're a bit away from the city center and our county is quite large, one of the largest of Kentucky's 120 counties.
That's quite interesting. Go back to my post as with your mementos I had to share a bit of my first WDW visit, which wasn't the best back in the early days!
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Beautiful area you have to walk in! The Disney stuff is so cool. My first trip wasn't until 1989, the week Disney-MGM opened. I was in my 40's but was hooked instantly. It's hard to think of WDW with just MK now.
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WOW just reading about the website for DL it is moving further and further down on the list of places to visit.
Mini-hijack here...Don't let the flakiness of the Disneyland info deter you. It's just not that big of a thing to do a ton of planning before a trip to DL. With the exception of Blue Bayou and possibly Carathy Circle, even ADRs don't seem to be very necessary to get right at the beginning of the ressie window. It's still the happiest place on earth! But yeah, not a lot to keep us planning junkies busy, that's true.
With the exception of "Funky Town" it sounds really peaceful but still close enough to the 'city' accommodations.
And how neat to find the stuff from your first trip! I don't think I have anything, except for pictures of mine.
what a great place to walk. we have many walking trails where we live and thoroughly enjoy them. So peaceful. Nice to live close to civilization too. Best of both worlds. Ill be since retiring you are able to enjoy them even more.
That's quite interesting. Go back to my post as with your mementos I had to share a bit of my first WDW visit, which wasn't the best back in the early days!
That first visit might have made you swear off the place. Thank goodness you gave it another try.
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Great memorabilia! I have a number of things from my trip in 1982. Keep thinking I should put them in a shadow box or something.
Love the barn quilts!
The shadow box might be a great idea for mine, too. I keep thinking I need to get Luke to drive me around, so I can hop out to photograph barn quilts.
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Lovely photos from your walk - it looks as if you live in a beautiful part of the country. I also loved the Disney memorabilia, so cool!
We think it is beautiful here. I was so excited to find that I hadn't thrown these away.
Beautiful area you have to walk in! The Disney stuff is so cool. My first trip wasn't until 1989, the week Disney-MGM opened. I was in my 40's but was hooked instantly. It's hard to think of WDW with just MK now.
We also enjoy an extensive system of trails that is our city/county greenbelt. I know as I looked over the brochure, I kept thinking about how MK was it. Our next trip came in 1997 when we took Stefanie for the first time. By then there were three parks and AK would open the following year.
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Oh, you have such a beautiful location for walking. No wonder you are able to log 4 miles each day. I love the old WDW brochure.
Pretty scenery does make the walking much easier.
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Hoping for a great update!!! And the dates are up!
Thanks! Though I hope no one is holding their breath on our getting those ADRs for the dining packages.
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I also loved the Disney memorabilia, so cool! 
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Pretty scenery does make the walking much easier. 
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