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Yosemite WEDI Trips 1980-2000

Shortly after joining WED (now Walt Disney Imagineering) Linda began organizing a nearly annual trip to Yosemite for the members of the Electronic Engineering department. The trip was soon dubbed The Return of the WEDI, and her organizing efforts dubbed Alcorn Tours (for which she received a commemorative plaque on the tenth anniversary). This tradition continued for two decades, and we also went a few other places along the way.

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1980, the first of two years in the tent cabins at Camp Curry before we graduated to the Yosemite Lodge as people started to earn more money!

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1980

Campfire near Yosemite Falls 1981

Dave Barnett, 1981

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Chris and Linda

Phil 1986

Ira 1981

John Noonan 1981

1983 — we missed 1982 because of Epcot

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1985

For a change of pace, we went to Tuolumne meadows in 1986. Our trip was on the first weekend of the summer that it opened, and it was still cold. The tent cabin were nicer than at Camp Curry, and everyone had a great time in the high country.

1988

Martin 1988

1988

Chris break dancing

Linda, Glenn and Chris designing Epic Stunt Theater (Indiana Jones) at Yosemite Lodge, 1988. Work never stops.

1989 at the Ahwahnee

WEDI 90 Group
1990

WEDI Dome 1990
1990

1990 Lina is pregnant

1990 baby shower at Yosemite Lodge

October 1, 1992 at Epcot for the 10th anniversary

1992 at our house

1994

In 1996 we went to the Grand Canyon and stayed at the El Tovar.

We had a really cool room called the Mary Coulter Library, with a huge porch that looked out over the canyon.

In 1999 the group went to San Francisco

1999

2000, accommodations upgraded to the Ahwahnee

2000

2000, Glenn and Felisha

2000, cameras getting a lot smaller

San Diego 1979

In 1979 we also went to San Diego together for the first time, visiting the Zoo, SeaWorld, Old Town and Wild Animal Park. OK, so there are a lot of pictures of petting zoos here. We like em, OK?

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San Diego Zoo.

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San Diego Zoo.

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San Diego Zoo (non-permanent resident).

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Vacation Village Resort, on an island in Mission Bay. We ended up at this lovely spot after checking into our motel and discovering it to be a dump. When we looked in the room’s phone book for a better place (you remember phone books, right?) the accommodations pages were almost worn out from all the previous guests who had the same idea!

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Vacation Village Resort, on an island in Mission Bay.

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San Diego Wild Animal Park.

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San Diego Wild Animal Park.

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San Diego Wild Animal Park. You’ve got to admit, he’s kinda cute. The deer’s OK, too.

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San Diego Wild Animal Park.

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San Diego Wild Animal Park.

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San Diego Wild Animal Park.

So what did we learn from this post? Zoos are filled with wild animals that look just like goats.

Washington DC 1979

Capitol 1979
In April, 1979 we made our first trip to Washington, D.C. for a friend’s wedding.

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The Smithsonian.

Air and Space 1979
Air and Space Museum.

Bubble Chamber 1979
Bubble Chamber at the Smithsonian.

Cyclotron 1979
Cyclotron at the Smithsonian.

Eniac or some other equally old computer at the Smithsonian.

First Anniversary in San Francisco 1979

On our first anniversary, March, 1979, we returned to the city of our honeymoon, San Francisco.

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Admiring the view from the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco.

St. Francis 2 1979
ditto

St. Francis 3 1979
ditto

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Alcatraz from near Fisherman’s Warf, same trip.

Alcatraz 1 3-25-79
ditto

Ghirardelli 1 1979 Ghirardelli Square, same trip.

Ghirardelli 3 1979
ditto

Ghirardelli 2 1979
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Honeymoon 1978

Linda and I were married March 25, 1978. That night we flew to San Francisco and spent several days at the St. Francis hotel, then flew and drove to Yosemite for the rest of the week.

The St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, March 25, 1978.

We call this “Honeymoon Myopia”. In the rush to leave L.A., Linda forgot her glasses. After the long wedding day, her contact lenses were bothering her, so we went “sightseeing” the day after our wedding with me playing seeing-eye dog. Here she is on the Balclutha, peering at the informational plaque.

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Aboard the Balclutha.

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Well, at least she got the camera pointed in almost the right direction.

We never got around to the Champagne on our wedding night. This is the day after, and we’re about to polish it off while watching “The Wizard of Oz” on TV. Really.