Just past midnight, 1/1/2003

December 30, 2002 to January 5, 2003. Resort: Disney’s BoardWalk Villas New Year’s 2002-3 Trip Photos Photo #1 of 37 Happy New Year 2003 (Disney-MGM Studios) ▶ Play 2.0s Jammin’ In The Jungle Parade January 2, 2003 Photo #1 of 9 Mickey’s Jammin’ in the Jungle Parade ▶ Play 2.0s …

Walt Disney World Welcomes 2003 [more on the post]

100 Years of Magic February 2002

February 4 to 14, 2002. Resort: Disney’s BoardWalk Villas Slideshow Images Photo #1 of 37 Walt Disney World February 2002 ▶ Play 2.0s Fantasmic! Disney-MGM Studios 2/4/2002 Illuminations: Reflections of Earth Epcot 2/4/2002 Page created: February 24, 2002 Last Updated on August 2, 2026

Spaceship Earth

When it opened in October, 1982, the second theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort was called EPCOT Center. The letters in its name were capitalized to emphasize that the word was really an acronym coined by Walt Disney in the 1960s during the development of the “Florida Project” …

A Brief History of Epcot [more on the post]

January 23, 1999. A day trip from Paris, France.

On January 23, 1999, after nearly a week of visiting Paris, France, I took the 45 minute RER commuter train about 20 miles to the east of Paris to the Marne-la-Vallée-Chessy Rail Station for my first visit to the Disneyland Paris Resort. As of this trip, the Resort included one theme park: Disneyland Paris (1992); seven hotels and the Disney Village entertainment district. The Rail Station is located between the Theme Park and the Disney Village. At the end of my visit that evening, I took the RER train back to my hotel in central Paris.