Disneyland ’08
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Any day at one of the Disney parks is bound to be a good one and my visit to Disneyland on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 was no exception. Trying to shed the bad memory of the night before when I missed meeting David Garrison at the Pantages Theatre, I dove headlong into another great day with my friends at the Happiest Place on Earth. Not only were we getting set to visit both California Adventure and Disneyland, I was getting ready to actually enter the doors of the infamous Club 33! Read the rest of this entry »
The fun of the fifth International Sons of the Desert convention in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, continued on Monday, July 28. Time had virtually stood still for me and the days really had no meaning at this point. True to the anthemic song of the Sons, I in fact was ‘having the time of my life’ amidst all the friends, both new and old, camaraderie, memorabilia, films, purchases, events, autograph gathering, scholarly overtones, and of course heavily social undertones. 
Club 33 is legion among fans of Walt Disney and all things Disneyland. It’s the place that many have heard of but few have ever actually been able to experience. Naturally the mysteriousness alone was enough to whet my appetite and force me to do my best to make sure that a visit to the establishment became part of my “Dreams Come True Tour” of Southern California during my week there in October. After many years of drooling over the mental images and speculation of what could be found inside Club 33, I finally got my chance to enter its doors on October 8, 2008. 
After returning from my fabulous Disney World / Florida vacation in early June, I was left with a whole Summer of nothing to do. Well, that’s not exactly true. First of all, I immediately set about creating my masterpiece epic novel about Disney World (described slightly more in depth in the previous 
It was bittersweet to come to the end of the day of Saturday, July 19, 2008. For all intents and purposes, this was our very last day in Europe. It had been a busy one from the start when we visited the Olympiapark in Munich, then on to the horrifying