You would think that the whole Disney experience would be the farthest imaginable from being my kind of thing. But two days in the Anaheim part of the land of Mouse, as it turns out, just wasn’t enough. So we bought passes and will be headed back before long.
I think the thing I enjoyed most was California Adventure. After all this time, to have a completely new Disney experience…well, for a number of reasons, that’s a good thing. It doesn’t hurt that it comes with a roller coaster that is basically a railgun – no foreplay, no clack-clack-clack up the hill, just linear induction and POW, you’re going 60 miles an hour uphill, at night, surrounded by the lights of their boardwalk replica and with a pretty commanding view for as long as you can hold your head over to watch without getting whiplash.
I’ll tell you this, though: I could go the rest of my life without getting up at 4 AM to make a flight.