{"id":1722,"date":"2011-06-25T00:12:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T04:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_travel_adventures\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2022-02-21T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T17:43:06","slug":"adventures-by-disney-quest-for-the-west-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/adventures-by-disney-quest-for-the-west-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures by Disney: Quest for the West Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
At dinner the previous night we were given pickup and transportation\u00a0 instructions to depart.\u00a0 There are not lots of flights out of Jackson and\u00a0 it is not exactly a busy airport.\u00a0 We had two pickups for the 90 minute\u00a0 trip back to the airport:\u00a0 9:15am and 10:15am.\u00a0 If you had a 9:15am\u00a0 departure they were picking\u00a0 up luggage at 8:15am, and the later departure\u00a0 had luggage at 9:15am.\u00a0 Since my roommate was on the earlier transportation\u00a0 list I had to ensure her bags were picked up prior to me setting out luggage, so\u00a0 I kept a watch on the time while I was having breakfast (which was quite\u00a0 delicious!)\u00a0\u00a0 One of the lodge employees actually sought me out for\u00a0 bag pickup too as they were running ahead of schedule.\u00a0 Worked out pretty\u00a0 well as he picked up my bags and no hassles for me.<\/div>\n
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Pinnacle Buttes<\/div>\n
Just about\u00a0 everything I have ever done with Disney has been prompt, and the departure from\u00a0 Brooks Lake Lodge was no exception.\u00a0 Our group piled into the van for the\u00a0 long drive to Jackson.\u00a0 On the way it was a pretty quiet ride as there are\u00a0 no radio stations out that way, and our driver didn’t search for one.\u00a0 I\u00a0 amused myself waiting for 3G service on my cell phone to pick up to I could see\u00a0 if I had any voice mail.\u00a0 After being disconnected from televisions\u00a0 and communication devices for several days I was strangely comforted by seeing\u00a0 the cell phone pop into service.<\/div>\n
After a very quick and uneventful\u00a0 trip through airline bag check in with Frontier Airlines, I discovered that I\u00a0 was OK in the luggage weight department at 46 pounds (I went out with 43.5) and\u00a0 I shoved another sweatshirt in my suitcase bringing it up to 47lbs.\u00a0 No\u00a0 overweight fees so all was good.\u00a0 Then I made a quick trip through TSA\u00a0 lines with the friendliest agents I have found in ANY airport anywhere, and it\u00a0 was time to sit in the terminal and check email.\u00a0 Ironically I had gone all\u00a0 the way back to “civilization” in Wyoming and I had no cell phone or internet\u00a0 service.\u00a0 Thankfully I had spent the time on the trip down to Jackson\u00a0 checking mail and I could deal with waiting until Denver, which was my first\u00a0 layover of (gasp!) THREE HOURS!!\u00a0 At least Denver was a big airport and\u00a0 they had free internet.\u00a0 Plan was to sit down and catch up on paperwork\u00a0 while waiting for the flight.
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Hot Spring at\u00a0 Yellowstone<\/div>\n
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\nThis was my\u00a0 first time flying Frontier and I was pretty impressed.\u00a0 Reminded me a lot\u00a0 of Southwest with the comfy leather seats, but this plane had television!\u00a0\u00a0 Wow… Television.\u00a0 Hadn’t seen one of those in about five days and I was\u00a0 all by myself and could be in charge of channel selection.\u00a0 Since this part\u00a0 of the journey was less than an hour I decided to skip the TV on this flight\u00a0 segment and splurge for it ($6 for flight duration) on the trip from Denver to Indianapolis.\u00a0\u00a0 Uneventful flight, and perfect landing (and boy was I due a nice landing after\u00a0 my last few trips) and I was in Denver for several hours.\u00a0 Worked a bit,\u00a0 found a hamburger, and finally boarded the plane to Indianapolis which was about\u00a0 30 minutes late.\u00a0 Once in the air the TV started its preview and I happily\u00a0 swiped my credit card in the reader.\u00a0\u00a0 Can’t even tell you how\u00a0 long the flight was but I enjoyed being in control of the channel changer and\u00a0 not having to share and I never even got out of my seat.\u00a0 Landed in Indy\u00a0 around 11:35pm, waited (and waited, and waited) for luggage, and walked the half\u00a0 mile to the parking lot.\u00a0 Was not going to wait for a shuttle as walking was\u00a0 likely faster at that hour and I was enjoying the pleasant weather, albeit more\u00a0 humid than Wyoming.\u00a0 Arrived home shortly after 1am–and the cat seemed happy to\u00a0 see me.\u00a0 Everyone else was asleep.<\/div>\n
So what did I think of my\u00a0 great Adventure to Wyoming?\u00a0 I really loved the trip and the whole concept\u00a0 of Adventures by Disney and the guided tour.\u00a0\u00a0 After my initial trepidation about\u00a0 going to Wyoming and being out of my comfort zone, I decided to just roll with\u00a0 what happened because it was unlikely that I would go that way again.\u00a0 This\u00a0 was designed as a family trip with kids, and Disney was putting it together, so\u00a0 nothing was likely to go wrong.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Disney and my Adventure Guides made\u00a0 the whole experience interesting, and I actually learned a lot about something I\u00a0 did not know or even think about–which was Wyoming.\u00a0 I was able to\u00a0 step outside of my comfort zone (in spanky new hiking boots and souvenir\u00a0 sweatshirts and jacket too) and enjoy it.<\/div>\n
Disney really\u00a0 delivered a premium experience with this trip.\u00a0 An Adventures by\u00a0 Disney vacation tends to be a bit pricey even before airfare, but I do\u00a0 think that a guest gets a lot when doing this sort of trip.\u00a0\u00a0 Its\u00a0 immersive with many experiences, and guided by people who really know their\u00a0 facts about the destination.\u00a0 An ABD includes excellent hotels and meals\u00a0 and a small group–and all of these items contribute to the enjoyment, and\u00a0 price.\u00a0 Plus when someone doesn’t have to plan their activities, and things\u00a0 go smoothly from one thing to the next, there’s no stress.\u00a0 My\u00a0 Adventures by Disney trip was the most hassle-free trip I have done in my\u00a0 life.\u00a0 Plus it was fun even without television and\u00a0 telephones.\u00a0 And I will make a confession:\u00a0 it was nice to\u00a0 decompress and not be so wired in to technology.\u00a0 My stay at Brooks Lake\u00a0 Lodge forced me off the telephone and the computer which was a good thing.<\/div>\n
Would I do another Adventures by Disney trip?\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 It\u00a0 was a great even with cold weather and snow in the middle of June.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At dinner the previous night we were given pickup and transportation\u00a0 instructions to depart.\u00a0 There are not lots of flights out of Jackson and\u00a0 it is not exactly a busy airport.\u00a0 We had two pickups for the 90 minute\u00a0 trip back to the airport:\u00a0 9:15am and 10:15am.\u00a0 If you had a 9:15am\u00a0 departure they were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1682],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-by-disney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82741,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/82741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}