packerbacker180 wrote:Awesome, Ken. The Romantic in me has always dreamed of driving cross-country. Sounds like a lifetime of memories. I can only imagine how much Force Awakens stuff Disney had out by now.
Actually, I was disappointed in what Disney had on sale for Star Wars stuff. Next to no Black Series figures.......unless you liked Finn, or Kylo Ren. Zero of their Elite series ( ?) die-cast figures. If you wanted the big Tie-Fighter, or the smart-phone controlled BB-8......sure, lots of those around. Not much else. Disney stuff is king in the parks, Star Wars is a distant second, Marvel stuff even more distant third and if you are lucky......Muppets comes in last. The sad thing is the repetition, EVERY store in the parks carries the same stuff......there's very little to no variations in what they stock, even if the land itself is different in theme. But I digress.
The other thing I learned is that travelling by road means a couple of things: you see a LOT of trees.......where there are trees, that is. In the flatlands..........yeah, open plains got way less trees, but not much else to see. The Intertstates are basically "tunnels".........sure, they got the sky above, and the road below, but either side is never-ending rows of oft-dense noise-abatement woods. Cannot see much beyond them, unless you get into built-up urban areas.
The trick is to not travel on the Interstates, but instead on the secondary highways. We did that in a few places--Arkansas for one, and it's a lovely state to see and drive through when not on the main thoroughfares.
