How cany I gow DOWN 11% on my way to level 3?

A segway is a vehicle with 2 wheels and 5 gyros to keep it upright. Here are some photos:

One: You will now see that I made a banner. Two: We got a Segway HT I180. Tell you more latter: For more now see www.segway.com

I just noticed there are Emblems below the Level Graph.

Paul Winchel, an amazing vocie artist for animated shows, died yesterday. He was 82. Paul is most famous for vocing Tigger on Winnie the Pooh. He also voiced Dick Dasterdly on Wacky Rcaces and Dasterdly and Muttly in Their Flying Machines. He is a great loss to the world.

Two little kids and there parents have been staying in my family's house. We just threw them out today because they KICKED their dog, who was with them. I wonder if I should report that as animal abuse...

To anyone out there, my Disney History 101, in the fourms, is getting good feedback! I think I'll continue with it...

I've decided to move The Disney Blog tho the forums. You can find it under Off-Topic and Animation (If anyone has even seen it).

Enjoy the first Disney Blog! Walt Disney had always loved skiing, but by his mid-sixties his health troubles were worsening, making it an uncomfortable pastime for him. His legs stiffened up in the cold and the pain in his back and neck (from an old polo injury) was getting worse. He was also having trouble breathing, as the lung cancer that would finally kill him was taking hold. It was during the making of The Third Man On The Mountain in 1958 that his interest in the sport reached its peak. The filmmakers were based at a resort in Switzerland and the ever-inquisitive Walt asked many questions about how the resort was run, how it had been planned, how they looked after their guests etc. He became convinced that this kind of operation could be done much better if it were his business’. Disney had been asked to stage various ceremonies for the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California, and it was here that Walt met up with Bavarian ski expert Willy Schaeffer. Walt ordered surveys of various mountain sites in the U.S. with a view to opening his own ski resort and had Schaeffer check them out from the sporting angle. Aspen in Colorado, California’s Mammoth Mountain and various sites in the San Bernardino range were all investigated, as was the Mineral King Valley on the edge of the Sequoia National Park in California. Eventually he decided on the undeveloped potential of Mineral King, and Schaeffer confirmed that the area would provide excellent skiing. In what has become their usual way of operating, the Disney Company quietly began to buy as much land in the area as it could. Many people believed that the valley should have been included within the original scope of the Sequoia National Park, but the abandoned remains of a small and very short-lived town that had sprung up in the silver mining boom of the 1880’s had been enough to exclude it. However by the 1960’s nature had reclaimed most of her own and the area was almost totally uninhabited. In 1965 the United States Forestry Service began accepting bids from companies wishing to develop Mineral King valley. They had already invited potential developers in some twelve years previously, but had not received a single offer. This time they were looking for investments in excess of $3million. Five other bids matched this, but Walt showed how much potential he believed the site had by bidding a startling $35million. This was provisionally accepted and work began on planning the alpine village. It would contain two hotels, ten restaurants, a chapel, a skating rink, two theatre (one for live acts and one featuring an early version of The Country Bear Jamboree) and of course various chair lifts to get the skiers to the slopes. Walt had planned to only allow vehicles access to the mouth of the valley, taking guests the final leg of the journey by train or monorail On September 19th 1966, Walt and local Governor Edmund Brown held a press conference at the relatively inaccessible valley to announce plans for the resort and the highway that would service it. Reporters commented how frail Walt looked, and they were right. Nobody knew it at the time, but this was to be his final press conference. Walt Disney died just three months later. Despite Walt’s death, work continued on planning Disney’s Mineral King Ski Resort. The size of the proposed resort surprised many. While the original Forest Service plan had been for accommodation for around 100 people per night and day parking for approximately 1,200 cars, Disney’s proposal was somewhat more ambitious. 3,000 guests would be accommodated overnight, along with up to 3,600 cars. To get all those people to the resort the existing road system would have to be dramatically improved. Unfortunately some eight miles of the suggested new highway would be required to cut straight through the Sequoia National Park. With access roads through U.S. National Parks generally being forbidden, this raised conservation problems. What had seemed to Walt to be a way of allowing thousands of people access to one of nature’s most beautiful areas was now being questioned because of the effect that all those people would have on the area and its wildlife. Was it morally correct or even legal to build such a large concern in the area? Before long those same questions were being asked in court. To make matters worse, in early 1969 a Disney employee was killed and several buildings destroyed as an avalanche swept through the valley. Naturally the question was raised of ensuring safety at any resort to be built in the area. The legal process dragged on for over a decade and the Disney Corporation was starting to lose interest as the cost of improving the road to the area spiraled, while at the same time public support for the project was dwindling. There was even a march on Disneyland itself, with protesters wearing “Save Mineral King” t-shirts. The entire issue finally came to an end in October 1978 when the National Parks Acquisition and Expansion Bill was passed by Congress. As part of it Mineral King was added to the Sequoia National Park, putting an end to any question of development in the area. Walt Disney’s idea of a ski resort never came to fruition. The Mineral King valley remains to this day an area of outstanding natural beauty, but relatively few people ever get the chance to see it. Coming Soon to The Disney Blog: What May Have Been at Disneyland's Main Street USA: Part One See ya soon!

I have alway been facinated with Disney. Like I mentioned in my "What I Like" section in the About Me part of my profile, I like the Disney Theme Parks. Especialy the "lost" ones. Disney has had plans to build a Disneyland on every continant (except Antartica). Also, 13 other theme park were in the planning stages at sometime. Look for The Disney Blog in my blog. I'll post the next one shortly. Some will even have photos! Also in every Disney Blog I'll give a "Coming Soon in The Disney Blog", like the one below. Coming Soon in The Disney Blog: The Story of Disney's Mineral King Ski Resort. The Norther Californian Resort that never was.