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So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.

Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.

And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.

We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.

There are other changes as well.

Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:

We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.

It's time to move on and move forward.

PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.

But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.

So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.

And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.

That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!

If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.

So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!

Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!

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Posted 07-30-2009 at 09:54 AM by Sandra Bostwick

I have the view from my balcony at the Dove Creek Lodge in Key largo as my cell phone wall paper. On the cover is either sunset or sunrise (I can't remember which) When you flip it open, there is the full daylight view.

I was trying to describe the view to a friend when it occurred to me to show her! When she looked at the illuminated photo she got it.

The days of being without a camera at short notice are just about gone. The photos make telling our stories and telling about our lives as easy as pushing a button in some ways.

I like how our gadgets give us the options of choosing personalized screen savers or wallpaper on computers and devices.

The choice to remove one "main" photo and put in another can be touchy. Are my loyalties divided if I take this one off? Just what SHOULD be the most important photo...the one I see countless times in a day?

Sometimes, taking a photo off a screensaver puts finality on something that we may not have anymore, like a person who is no longer central in our lives. OUCH! In a cell phone, moving a photo from wallpaper to "My pix"storage is one thing, but when the memory gets full, and you have to start deleting, some hard questions have to be dealt with. How do we decide when to recycle the photos of people, places, and things that give us our gadget greeting? Have you ever had an OUCH while moving something?

What photo is front and center in your life right now?

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Right now I'm using one of the generic Windows wallpapers. Generally I have my wallpaper set to something that relates to my next trip. Well my next trip is to Branson and I couldn't find a picture I was happy with, so I'm just going generic for right now. I also use the same way of thinking to choose my sig pic and profile pic on PP - whatever my next trip is. Gives me something to help me look forward to the trip!

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Posted 07-30-2009 at 06:22 PM by christiejay christiejay is offline

	I seem to use wallpapers that make me look back. Something to make me smile. I WISH I had a trip planned to Disney soon! Want to plan one? 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 07-30-2009 at 07:10 PM by Sandra Bostwick

We're going to be at WDW around the same time I believe Christiejay. My wallpaper on my cell is a picture of my DS (19) in his newly acquired Fireman uniform (full gear), breathing mask and all. In front of the city's fire truck. He was just voted into our local volunteer fire department as a regular volunteer fireman. Before this photo I had a picture of him from last summer in shorts and tshirt, before leaving for "Y" camp. I am just learning all of this new technology so I do not have an overabundance of pictures and other things yet, but I'm working on it. I have no idea how I will decide what to say goodbye to.

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Posted 07-30-2009 at 07:27 PM by GoofEme GoofEme is offline

	There's always room for one more Sandy! 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 07-30-2009 at 07:32 PM by GoofEme Updated 07-30-2009 at 07:38 PM by GoofEme

	My bags are packed! 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 07-30-2009 at 10:41 PM by Sandra Bostwick

	Sandy, I thought my next trip to WDW wouldn't be until 2011, until my sil talked me into going in December. GoofEme, we'll be there the 19-23. 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 07-31-2009 at 06:42 PM by christiejay