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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 09-22-2009 at 07:56 AM by Sandra Bostwick

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Technology can be a real challenge. It keeps coming at us with new gadgets and procedures like an automatic ball throwing machine set at high and fast. We can duck and cover or we can try to keep up by taking a swing whenever we can.

Unlike the automatic ball throwing machine, though, technology is not something that most people can simply decide to walk away from.

I've received a few e-vites which are cute little invitations that keep track of who responded and how. It took some thinking to figure out how to respond, and I'm still not certain if I responded correctly. A while back, I was invited to an event on an old address which I rarely open. I missed the event.

Has technology changed the way you socialize? Does technology ever get in the way of making connections?

(To be continued-I just ran out of time!)

Have a fun day!

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	Posted 09-22-2009 at 08:27 AM by 4Disney2

	This is exactly what keeps us young . . . All the new gadgets that the young people take to like fish. . . . and what makes us old . . . Trying to keep up with everything when before techno gadgets we only worried about the gadgets we wanted now we are convinced that we need them all. . . . and why we are here. 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 09-22-2009 at 10:47 AM by NeverBeenHopeToGo

I am resistant to change, especially where technology is concerned. I much prefer to talk on the phone, since there are a couple of days each week when I don't even turn my computer on! I hate it when people send an email or some other form of communication, and assume it's going to be read immediately. They might live on their computers constantly, but not everybody else does. On the other hand, technology sure is nice when it works properly.

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Posted 09-22-2009 at 06:14 PM by christiejay christiejay is offline

Thanks for responding. Jamie, I feel the same way about people who get all bent out of shape if you don't respond to an email. A while back, my computer was in the shop, so I could only check email at work. It was also a MAJOR busy time in my field.

Well, I got an email from someone who usually sends jokes, forwards, or updates with several recipients, so I didn't know the message was something personal she wanted me to know.

I ended up getting an extremely angry and blaming email because I hadn't responded in a timely manner. A real keyboard attack!

Her message started with something like "I don't want to hear any excuses for why you are ignoring me, so now I'm going to ignore you." I sent back a very nice have-a-nice-life message and moved on. Life is short.

Some people just can't stop and think about possibly real-life communication glitches and, with tech, that can be even a BIGGER issue!

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Posted 09-24-2009 at 07:51 AM by Sandra Bostwick Sandra Bostwick is offline