Bøger af Bob Weis

Disney experiences enthrall millions of guests around the world. How does it all become a reality? Find out in this action-packed narrative journey!Dream Chasing is a recounting by author Bob Weis of four decades of creating and seeing to completion challenging projects, leading teams from the top secret, high-tech corridors of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) to the highest levels of The Walt Disney Company. Our author recounts working on and overseeing projects that took him from Anaheim, California, to the swampy wetlands of Central Florida, and even on to Paris; Washington, D.C.; Russia; Tokyo; Shanghai; and the massive shipyards of Papenburg, Germany.    As a former Imagineering president, Bob Weis was part of the second generation of Imagineers. His page-turner of a story follows the path of someone who never lost his passion for chasing big innovative dreams in spite of having to navigate over bumpy roads tied to a slew of issues and concerns—grounded in design, technology, politics, and culture (to name a few) just to bring an array of Disney experiences to reality. Bob’s drive was fueled by a belief in something Walt Disney once said: “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”Dreams, as Weis writes, “come from a place of infinite possibilities, from a part of us that doesn’t recognize limits.     Dreams are exciting, frustrating, and sometimes illusive, as hard to hold on to as pixie dust, like glitter falling through your fingers.”Sometimes they are meant to happen, and they do; sometimes they are meant to happen, and they don’t. But every dream is an adventure, driven by the vision and passion of teams that believe any dream worth doing, is worth chasing.

Summer 2015 Bob Weis has a problem. For years, he has woken up with vivid dreams of where, as a young boy, he and his family spent their two-week summer vacations. Fifty-five-years had not dulled his desire to return. Now, he has to convince his wife, Lynda, to drive a thousand miles to a place he often described as, "full of snakes, mosquitoes, and dead fish." Not an easy sell, and Bob couldn't sell Christmas cards to his grandparents. Somehow, Bob musters up the courage to share his dream of returning to Red Muir's Camp in Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin. Lynda is less than excited, but their other vacation plans had fallen through, and going to northern Wisconsin would be better than nothing. She hoped. During their long drive to Wisconsin from Tennessee, Bob looks back on his family vacation in 1959, when he was nine-years-old. The preparation was a big part of the whole vacation. The 375-mile drive from Aurora, Illinois to Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin was before air-conditioning, fast food, interstate highways, GPS, and all sorts of other electronic gadgets. They drove single-lane, shoulder-less roads that passed through every little country town. His mom's family had been vacationing in Land O' Lakes every year since 1922. When his grandparents first ventured north, it was a two-day, grueling journey, requiring extra tires and camping gear, because there were no motels at the time. They arrived exhausted at their cabin at the resort, only to be greeted to the luxury of no heat, running water, electricity, or plumbing. A one-seater outhouse served the whole resort. Compared to that place, Lynda thought Red Muir's Camp sounded like Shangri-La. Bob continued with stories about The Gateway Hotel, eating lunch at the "Stinky Place," hunting for night crawlers, riding Methuselah, visiting a haunted island at night, building The Galloping Ghost, visiting the dump, and always avoiding snakes. Lynda slowly drops her guard, and asks probing questions, to which Bob has a ready response. Finally, after hundreds of miles and hours of stories from the past, they pull into Land O' Lakes to stay at the legendary Gateway Lodge. Now came the hard part; Would they have a good time, or could being gone over half-a-century have clouded Bob's memories? "How to Survive a Vacation" will answer those and many more questions.