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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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12-21-2005, 03:14 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: SE Ohio
Posts: 3,246
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: Disney's Hilton Head Resort for 5 nights and side trip to WDW, All Star Movies for 2 nights for me and dd.
Date: April 23-April 27
Adventurers: me (34), my mom and dad and dd (5)
Resort/Hotel: Hilton Head and ASMo
Celebration: My birthday!! Spring Break!! Visiting grandpa in Georgia!!
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12-22-2005, 09:09 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Orlando, Fl
Posts: 5,517
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: Disney's Vero Beach Resort
Date: April 25-April 27
Adventurers: Our Entire Family and most friends!
Resort/Hotel: Disney's Vero Beach Resort
Celebration: My Wedding!!!!!!!!
Meetings: Please let me know if you'll be there during this time! You'll be able to see my wedding from the upstairs bar, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. We are getting marri
ed on the lawn overlooking the ocean!
Kelly
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12-22-2005, 09:11 PM
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#18
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Orlando, Fl
Posts: 5,517
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: New York City!
Date: April 28-May 4
Adventurers: My newly married husband, Stephen!
Resort/Hotel: Yet to be determined
Celebration: Our honeymoon!
Meetings: We'd love to meet up with anyone!
Kelly
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12-27-2005, 01:59 AM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: chattanooga,TN
Posts: 168
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: WDW
Date: April 22-30,2006
Adventurers: me (Anita ,29,WDW-40 times), my mom (brenda,50something,WDW-44 times), my dad (butch,56,WDW,44times) Joey(anita's husband ,29, WDW-4times)
Resort/Hotel: celebration world resortin Celebration,FL.
Celebration: joey and Anita 6th wedding anv.and disney's 50th anv.
Meetings: i will have a pink disney tradeing pin around my neck witn tink on the end and my PassPorter Pin on too and a waist pack with Lips all over it ... you can come up and say hi .......
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01-01-2006, 04:12 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 13,146
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: London
Date: 8th April 2006 for 2 days
Adventurers: Me, Laura (Dsis), Kelly (best friend), and friends Mel, Katrina, Louise, Leah, Sarah, Jo and Max
Hotel: The Westbury in Bond Street
Celebration: My Hen night
Meetings: None planned but if anyone is in London we could meet up.
Karen
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01-04-2006, 04:15 PM
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Community Rank: Visitor
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Concord, NC
Posts: 4
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: Ft Wilderness & Disney
Date: April 15-22, 2006
Adventurers: Me, DH, and 2 DS, ages 7 and 11
Resort/Hotel: Ft Wilderness
Celebration: Spring Break, Baby!
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01-08-2006, 08:41 PM
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#22
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: SE Ohio
Posts: 3,246
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: Walt Disney World for a very short 2 day excursion! (Actually visiting my grandfather in Georgia, with a side trip to the World!)
Date: 4/25 - 4/27
Resort/Hotel: Boardwalk Inn Villas
Adventurers:Me (mom 35) and dd (5)
Celebration: My birthday!
Meetings: Probably won't have time!
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01-17-2006, 12:25 PM
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Community Rank: Visitor
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central New York
Posts: 1
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination:
Date: April 7th thru April 14th
Adventurers: Myself, Wendy, age 44 -loves Disney, Husband, Tim, age 43 - just goes for the golf, Daughter Maggie, age 16, huge Tink fan and 75% of songs on her IPOD are Disney, son Daniel, who is turning 13 and this is his welcome to teenagehood (is that a word???) trip, he loves Tigger
Resort/Hotel: first stay at CSR
Celebration: Celebration of Daniels birthday
Meetings: as of now our plans are
April 7th- arrival date - arrive Orlando approx 11:33 am
plan on becoming familiar with hotel (requested Cabanda 9B) and then heading over to MK later in evening
April 8th - Animal kingdom - then Boma for dinner at 5:40pm
April 9th - MGM - Mama Melrose for dinner at 5:50 (Fantasmic Package)
April 10th - boys have a fishing excursion out of CSR at 7am - girls might go to GF for a spa treatment - then to Epcot later in day - no dining plans as this is a relax day
April 11th - sorry Mike but we have CRT ressies for 9:15 am - planning on touring before and after CRT then golf in afternoon and back to MK later that night
April 12th - boys are playing golf this moring and Maggie and I are going to DD to shop - then ressies at 5:30 at Maya Grill
April 13th - more golf for the men - then afternoon and evening in Epcot - dinner at Marakesh at 5:30
April 14th - departure day - again a TGM no-no - but we have ressies at Crystal Palace at 8:25 - Daniel loves Tigger - then plan on spending rest of morning and afternoon in MK until we depart for airport at 5pm
That's our trip - any suggestiosn or comments?????
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01-22-2006, 06:59 PM
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#24
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The Jersey Shore
Posts: 7,249
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: Las Vegas, baby [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
Date: 4/8-4/13
Adventurers: Margo 42, DH Ron (61), DM Paula, DF Charles aka Chic [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Resort/Hotel: 4/8= Paris, 4/9-4/13= Harrah's
Celebration: Early anniversary trip
Meetings: PM me if you'll be there too [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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01-24-2006, 08:50 AM
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#25
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Posts: 10,721
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination:San Francisco, California
Date: 26 April - 30 April
Adventurers: Maureen, age 32 (that would be me) and DH Kevan, 36
Resort/Hotel: Grand Hyatt San Francisco in Union Square, along with our last night at the SFO Airport Marriott.
Celebration: Joining our good friends Chez and Mark and a pre celebration of Kevan's 37th birthday!
Meetings: PM me if you are there, would love to say hi!!
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01-24-2006, 08:18 PM
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#26
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 9,619
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination:WDW
Date: April 30-May 5
Adventurers: ME!
Resort/Hotel: BCV
Celebration: Spring,Flower and Garden Festival
Meetings: None planned but always happy to meet any fellow PP'ers!
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01-27-2006, 09:32 AM
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Community Rank: Day-Tripper
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New York
Posts: 7
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: WDW
Dates: 4/10-4/19
Adventurers: Me(cheryl 45), DD(Sam 12), DM(Marilyn 60+)
Resort: 1st time @ Coronado Springs
Celebration: Spring Break(even though spring doesn't arrive up here till May [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img])
Meetings: 4/11-Chef Mickey 8am
4/12-HoopDeeDoo 5pm
4/14-Rainforest Cafe @ AK 1pm
And of course lots of R&R [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zread.gif[/img]
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01-27-2006, 09:48 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Kissimmee, Fl
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 25,061
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: Walt Disney World
Date: 4/27-5/3
Adventurers: Me, Myself and I
Resort/Hotel: Port Orleans-Riverside!!
Celebration: Cause I am addicted lol
Meetings: Definatly going to visit one of my best friends while she is there with her family. Definatly up for meets with any fellow passporter that will be there at the same time [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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02-01-2006, 12:09 AM
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#29
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
What a coincidence! I'm going to be meeting up with one of MY best friends while I am there with my family. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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02-14-2006, 09:02 AM
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But why is the rum gone?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Needville, Texas
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 12,286
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Re: Adventuring in 04/06 (April 2006)
Destination: WDW of course
Date:4/8 - 4/12
Adventurers: Sheana1226, my DH Glenn, DH's co-worker and wife
Resort: Coronado Springs
Celebration: Our Anniversary and DH has a convention to go to.
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