Fort WITHDRAWL

[growinupdisney]

Hi everyone, we have been back home for 3 days and I am going thru MAJOR
Fort and Disney withdrawl My energy lvels is down not quite as happy as I was last week just can't get back inthe swing of things. I find myself daydreaming about the trip. Anybody else go thru this? What do you do to get over it?

 

[stacktester]

Hi everyone, we have been back home for 3 days and I am going thru MAJOR
Fort and Disney withdrawl My energy lvels is down not quite as happy as I was last week just can't get back inthe swing of things. I find myself daydreaming about the trip. Anybody else go thru this? What do you do to get over it?

Start planning another trip. Use the search function for heavens sake lol.

No really, planning another trip, adding to what you missed or wished you'd have done last trip always helps. It's tough even for us people who live close by.

 

[VACAMPER]

Ditto on what Donnie said or get drunk, whatever works for you.

 

[2goofycampers]

Ditto on what Donnie said or get drunk, whatever works for you.

I agree. It's tough coming home from WDW.

 

[Trixie15]

Sometimes I plan pretend trips. It's so fun deciding when to go, where I'll go and what rides I'd like to go on. Where I'd like to eat and what I'd order off the menu. Sometimes I do challenges like give myself a small pretend budget, or only stay for 3 days. Sometimes I let myself go all out and plan a huge extravagant vacation. It's fun to play.

Otherwise, you could put your pictures of your most recent trip into a scrapbook. I'm really bad about leaving them on the computer and never actually printing any of them.

 

[DaveInTN]

Like others said, if you can plan another trip, even if it's a year or more away, it helps. Also, hanging out on this site helps, and I also have enjoyed posting my pictures online like in a Webshots page, and I keep a travel blog now where I can write about the experiences. Each day, post-trip, gets easier. To me, it's like that letdown when you are a kid on the day after Christmas. It takes a little while to move past it!

 

[Tigger0624]

Fort withdrawl is horrible- I'm just happy that my DH spoils me so much and I can go back

Seriously though- Stacktester and co. are right- planning another trip or even thinking about planning another trip usually gets me out of that yucky "just got home" stage...

I'm horrible about getting pictures off my computer- I think our last trip we took a total of 400 pics over the span of a week!!! I did manage to print out some to put in an album for my parents though... and I bought the scrapbook stuff- just havent had the time to do it yet....

I'm actually packing up right now for a short weekend at the Fort... and wishing we lived closer to FW than we do Now if I could only finish up the laundry....

Is it morning yet?

 

[JPG]

No doubt, it is tough getting back into the old routine after a trip to the fort and WDW. Like posted already, we like to look at all the photos and video taken during our stay. We also just like sitting around and talking about the things we really enjoyed and the things we want to do next time.
One other thing we really enjoy, is going somewhere local that reminds us of being at Disney. Maybe a restaurant or ice cream shop, and just enjoying a good meal or snack and reminiscing of our days at WDW.

And, remember, you are not alone...That's why we all hang out here so much!!!

 

[Shan-man]

My best suggestion to treat the symptoms (there is no cure) is to write a trip report, replete with those photos you'll never have time to print and scrapbook! It helps in many ways. You get to relive your trip as you write it, the more detail and photos the better. It helps you remember all the little things months and even years from now, things that would otherwise slip into the foggy ether of middle-aged memory (speaking for myself here). It helps others alleviate their Fort Withdrawal symptoms, or to prepare for their first Fort experience, so it is a great service to our little community. And it can really help you plan your next trip as you recall things that were lees-than-ideal and how you might fix it next time, or remember things you had to skip that you want to make sure to allot time for next trip... and it can help with packing/shopping lists! I saw tons of great Christmas décor ideas that I want to use next trip... gosh, I better get to planning.

 

[Goofyseven]

After six months still going thru the process of withdrawal, have not made any progress, in fact its like reverse withdrawal. Tried all the treatments without success. The only cure is to go back quickly and for a long time. Working on going back, need to convince DW as to the length. I foresee much negotiation, but with success. Looking at 2 two to three month stays starting next year.

 

[Tnbob]

Hello, My name is Bob and I am in severe withdraw. We were suppose to go for my Birthday in Feb but someone ( I won't mention my MIL name)threw a wrench in it so now with the grandkids in baseball and dance and the new DGD ariving it won't be until June that we can go. Its been a long time since I went this long between trips (since Dec) and I am going nutz! Please SOMEONE come up with a way to truly deal with this as I am in a very bad way here. It doesn't help that my 4 yr old DGD asks almost dailey "when are we going to Disneyworld pop pop?" Please Help!

 

[guardwife66]

Sometimes I plan pretend trips. It's so fun deciding when to go, where I'll go and what rides I'd like to go on. Where I'd like to eat and what I'd order off the menu. Sometimes I do challenges like give myself a small pretend budget, or only stay for 3 days. Sometimes I let myself go all out and plan a huge extravagant vacation. It's fun to play.

Otherwise, you could put your pictures of your most recent trip into a scrapbook. I'm really bad about leaving them on the computer and never actually printing any of them.

Wow, I thought I was the only that planned "pretend" trips. It is so much fun especially when you know the next trip is still a long way away.

 

[FIREKYMMIE]

HI My name is Kym and I am addicted to Disney. In the last 2 yrs come June i will have be to Disney 4 times I have corrupted my children. My hubby has become addicted to Pin Trading. I have not been since Dec. since i had to buy a new frig instead of going to Disney for my Bday in April. I am experiancing Ft Wilderness withdraw and I have never been there yet.... . My days are spent here and everyother Disney site i can find. Someone help me.....

 

[Sgt Mickey]

I come here like everyone else and look at disney stuff

 

[BradyBz12]

Hi I'm Monique and I'm a hopeless WDW/FW addict.

We're in NH and squander all our vacation time/$$ to make it to the Fort for one big trip a year. We're up to managing 3 weeks at a time, but that makes for a loooooooooooooooong time between trips.

I've gotten my DH - who really wasn't big into WDW when we first went together 9 years ago - completely hooked on FW. We went from "well maybe we'll go every other year" to him planning how to finagle more time for the next trip while we were still at the Fort! If it were up to him we'd never go to the parks at all.

I fill the other 11 months hanging out with you other Fort Fiends and cruising all the WDW sites making notes for our next trip. DH like to cruise with me on the laptop in the evenings - checking out updated menus, blogs, and anything new we can find. Beats lame primetime TV!

Our 2 Disney dogs are now so comfortable with camping at the Fort that they fall into the new routine almost instantly.

Hoping to someday swing a way to spend Nov-Jan there.... ah well, a girl can dream!

 

[guardwife66]

Hi I'm Monique and I'm a hopeless WDW/FW addict.

We're in NH and squander all our vacation time/$$ to make it to the Fort for one big trip a year. We're up to managing 3 weeks at a time, but that makes for a loooooooooooooooong time between trips.

How do you manage 3 weeks at the Fort? Do you have to change sites after 2? I was told you could only book 14 days at a time.

 

[2goofycampers]

How do you manage 3 weeks at the Fort? Do you have to change sites after 2? I was told you could only book 14 days at a time.

Packages are limited but room only can be longer.

 

[BradyBz12]

Exactly. We had APs last year, so didn't do a package. We were doing 2 packages (with dining) prior to that, back when you could only get 10 days, and ended up having to do back-to-back ressies to make it work.

Every time we did we were told we might have to switch sites, but they never did make us.
(might help that we always went during the slower time in Nov/Dec)

 

[fortcampers]

Still going through Fort withdrawal and it's been a year! Keep trying to find ways to get there---unfortunately it's not that easy living 10 hours away and having to work around everyone's school, football, dance and work schedule!

 

[guardwife66]

We went to the Fort for the first time in 2006. We have been trying ever since to get back. Schedules have not allowed us to make it. I actually believe I could live at the Fort!