Welcome!
For some time now, Sarah and I have been contemplating starting our own blog chronicling our exploits at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. To date, we have written countless pages of trip reports, reviews of restaurants, and thoughts on resorts. However, we mostly expressed our sentiments in online forums, with no centralized location for all of our thoughts. Given this, and the transient state of the internet, we began considering our own website where we could preserve and share our thoughts and experiences.
With that idea in mind, we began looking into website options. Since my experience in web-design is minimal, I contacted Adam Hansen of the wonderful WDWPhotography.com for assistance. He customized the current design you see here, and I made some minor adjustments to produce what you see today. If you ever need any web design work done, I highly recommend contacting Adam. Sarah’s and my goal over the coming months is to slowly migrate all of our past dining reviews, resort profiles, and trip reports over to DisneyTouristBlog.com. (You may notice that many of these posts are written in present tense despite discussing events from 2007, 2008, 2009, or 2010; bear in mind that all posts were written roughly at the the time of the events they discuss, not present-day.) At today’s launch, a few such reviews and reports have already been migrated. Subscribe to our RSS or check back often as we continue these updates.
As those of you who have followed our travels may know, we place a premium on high-quality photos, and engaging & entertaining narratives describing our experiences. In that vein, we decided to start DisneyTouristBlog.com. While this will be neither a site concerning photography in the Disney Parks nor will it be a Op-Ed Blog, we believe it will be different from the myriad of other Disney sites out there offering travel advice, as we will interject our wit, unique writing style, and quality photography to supplement our objective-as-possible takes on our experiences.
We hope the above does not sound self-important or lofty, as that is not the intent. We’re happy to refer to ourselves as “tourists”–a term that has become somewhat pejorative amongst the Disney fan community–because touring the Disney theme parks and resorts is exactly what we love to do. Our goal, above all else, is to present a fun website that can provide information and entertainment to like-minded Disney fans and tourists similar to ourselves.
With that said, we welcome all who come to this happy place – DisneyTouristBlog.com!
-Thanks for visiting,
Sarah & Tom Bricker
This site is great. Your photos are awesome. Keep up the good work.
Finally! Everything in one place without having to navigate through those pesky forums and various other feeds. Even though I’m usually on or near the front lines of most of these happenings, its still nice read about everything 🙂
Good luck with the blog, love the look of it. I’ve been reading your trip reports and following you on Flickr for some time now, I really enjoy your way with words.
Tom & Sarah, what a beautiful site! Love the logo. I’m glad to see you pictures, trip reports, etc. all in one place. I’ve clicked “subscribe” and am looking forward to your updates!
It’s about time! I’m looking forward to reading your future posts.
Amazing blog! I can’t wait to read all the entries, the first few have been fantastic. 🙂
Thank you for creating your own blog! I rarely go to wdwmagic anymore, so it’ll be very nice to have your fantastic and detailed trip reports and other articles show up in my RSS reader. I really like the design of the site as well.
What a great idea!! I’ve long admired your pictures and read all your posts, so I couldn’t wait to see this! As I expected it’s fantastic!! It will be a “must visit daily” site for me. Thanks for all your great work! =)
Hi Tom (& Sarah!)
Good luck with your website. All I can say is that I’m grateful for Disney fans like yourself to dedicate so much personal time to informing other Disney fans. I especially like reading restaurant reviews and such. I will be following and this will be bookmarked 🙂
Best wishes
Nanette
Congratulations on the new website, it looks great and think this is a perfect venue for you and Sarah. You two have done such a great job in your previous posts and reports but I know the best is yet to come!
Congrats Sarah and Tom on the new blog! Looks great and I wish you both lots of luck with this new site!
Great now I know I will not get anything else done. Already got my rss feed updated. Good luck guys.
I for one love any and all the photos from the Parks. And look forward to reading your blog.
Good luck and great success and happiness to both of you.
Tom and Sarah
Site looks great ! Love the design and of course the Content. A definate Bookmark !
Looks great Tom, glad I could help out! Now I have another blog to read in the morning – I won’t have much time for work soon if this keeps up 🙂
Look forward to reading your blog.
Tom, I’ve followed your work on Flickr for a while now and love your work! Looking forward to reading your blog.
I’m so happy for you guys! Been long time follower on twitter and the boards, can’t wait to follow along on your new website!
Tom, I am a new follower and I am currently in the middle of reading your Disneymoon Trip Report (on the recommendation of my Dad and Mom who are 2 of your loyal followers) and have enjoyed every minute of it as WDW is where my wife and I went on our Honeymoon in 2008. It is very captivating and I find myself wanting to read more as if it was a new book that I have become rapped up in! I think this website is a great idea and look forward to hopefully getting around to reading all your trip reports! Keep up the good work!
I hope I can continue to use my alias of smk! I am looking forward to reading this blog!