Category: Travel
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ESPN Wide World of Sports: Athletic Excellence, Disney Magic
When the Braves and Reds inaugurated the beautiful baseball stadium at ESPN Wide World of Sports in 1998, I was there to cover it for a newspaper. I remember being impressed by the “Florida Picturesque” style, and the whimsical Mediterranean Revival details of a stadium that instantly became the premier…
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The Year of Disney: ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
We’ll take our family’s Year of Disney to a new level Sunday when we report to the Boardwalk Inn for the start of a three-day media event connected with the ongoing Disney Sports Festival at Walt Disney World. Specifically, the event is designed to shed light on activities, amenities and…
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‘Why do we go to Disney World, like, every weekend?’
Are you kidding me? A seven-year-old boy actually asked this question a couple of days ago while his dad was tucking him into bed for the night. “Daddy, why do we go to Disney World, like, every weekend almost?” The dad blinked and said, “Buh … wha … because it’s…
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The Year of Disney Begins
Two days, three parks, four exhausted family members. The trouble with fun of this magnitude is that when you come home, there’s grocery shopping and housework waiting. But if the choice is between that and doing the grocery shopping and housework without going to Walt Disney World for a 35-hour…
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The Year of Disney
Is today February? The 4-year-old knows. He knows that the Year of Disney begins for us when the calendar turns to February. Every day since he learned that fact, he has asked the question. Is today February? Not yet, we tell him. Soon. Shortly after February arrives, we’ll make the first of many…
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The Time We Almost Missed Christmas
We shuffled up to the customer service counter winded, defeated, dejected. The O’Hare concourse was empty. Anybody who had a chance to get somewhere that night, Christmas Eve 2000, was either there already or on the way. Not us. We were trapped in the giant airport on the outskirts of…
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Cape Cod Days
We’ll head back to Cape Cod for the fifth time as a family in a couple of weeks. Before we started going there (almost) every summer, I thought of Cape Cod as this exotic place. It was the Kennedys and lobster, sailing and lobster, summer theater and lobster, golf and…
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The Places I Saw, the Things I Did
I was a sportswriter from 1986 until 2010. During that time, I worked primarily for the Tampa Tribune in Florida. When I was hired there in 1992, there were about 65 people on the sports staff. After the most recent round of layoffs, there are, by my count, seven sportswriters…
Carter Gaddis, Writer & Editor 
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