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Presidential Visit

February 18, 2006 on 2:19 am | In General Nonsense | Write a Comment

The President came to the Contemporary tonight to speak before a Republican fund raiser dinner. With the traffic on I-4 messed up already because it’s Race Week, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to get through World Drive in time to get to work. When I got off the highway, I noticed I was making good time.

DisneyWorld appeared to be crawling with cops so I set my cruise control for 50. I made great time… there was no traffic! It was then I realized what was going on: I was just ahead of the motorcade. All of the roads leading to World Dr. were blocked off. I came to the Magic Kingdom toll plaza and nobody was working there, but a few motorcycle police were there waving frantically and yelling. “GO!”

I didn’t have a choice to turn into the parking lot, or at least it wasn’t obvious to me, so I kept going up towards Seven Seas. As I approached STOLport, I checked my mirrors and saw that about three cars back were the first motorcycle officers clearing the way. So he was like right behind me! Exciting.