As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
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.
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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!
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My Egypt scrapbook is finally complete, all 72 pages of it! I’m really pleased with it, especially as I only started it at the end of May/start of June.
Here it is in all its splendour:
The introductory page with some of the highlights we saw along the way I think this is my least favourite page of our hotel in Cairo – it just didn’t work as I hoped... Another of our hotel in Cairo The Pyramids of Giza The Solar Boat Museum Another pyramid page And the famous Sphinx As the pages say... more pyramids! The city of Cairo This page highlights the Western influences on what is still very much a Middle Eastern city The Egyptian Museum The view over Cairo from the Citadel The Citadel The Mosque of Sultan Hasan Al Rifa’s Mosque And some more mosques The Sound and Light show at the pyramids The wonderful open air museum of Memphis Saqqara... ... and its step pyramid Detail in Saqqara Our beautiful hotel in Luxor The hotel pool, right by the Nile The wonderful upgraded room we paid for! Looking out across the Nile Our felucca ride on the Nile Sunset shots at our hotel Karnak Temple... .. with its sphinxes ... ... columns... ... obelisks... ... hieroglyphics... ... and some final pages at the temple The sound and light show at Karnak Temple Luxor Temple The Valley of the Kings, making heavy use of Internet images, as you weren’t allowed to take any photos at the site Valley of the Queens Valley of the Workers Hatshepsut’s Temple Habu Temple Revolution – explaining what else had been happening while we were in Egypt and the signs we started to see of it towards the end of our vacation Getting from Luxor Airport to Cairo The mess that met us at Cairo Airport, where we were told we had no plane home.. Our first night at the airport, sleeping on the floor... Friends at the check-in gate, all trying to get out of Egypt. Finally, we’re on a plane and out of Egypt!! Our short stay in Munich The final leg of our journey home from Munich to the UK And finally we’ve made it!
Hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed putting it together...
Cheryl. the whole book is awesome! My favorite pages are the Step Pyramid and the Sunset ones, but it is all so wonderful! I still love your excited face on the flight out of Cairo to Munich. Such relief for you all at that point! Your papers are great choices for each of your spreads.
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Beautiful job, Cheryl!
You found some gorgeous papers there! I love that you matted every photo...I think albums look so much more "professional" when that's done. Nice that you have pictures of all the sights, but also have lots with you and your DH. The sunset pix are just awesome. I see you've mixed handwritten and computer journaling--nice touch, and your handwriting is neat and easy to read.
Excellent idea to add what you saw of the revolution and the adventures at the airport.
Beautiful job, Cheryl!
You found some gorgeous papers there! I love that you matted every photo...I think albums look so much more "professional" when that's done. Nice that you have pictures of all the sights, but also have lots with you and your DH. The sunset pix are just awesome. I see you've mixed handwritten and computer journaling--nice touch, and your handwriting is neat and easy to read.
Excellent idea to add what you saw of the revolution and the adventures at the airport.
Thanks for sharing with us!
Ginger
Thank you very much! I agree, I think photos look so much better when matted and now I can't bring myself to have any that aren't. :
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I’m really pleased with it, especially as I only started it at the end of May/start of June. 
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