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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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12-29-2004, 04:36 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: kansas city
Posts: 103
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Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
Hello everyone!!!!!! We are home safe! I cant believe what happened! We just got home a little over a week ago!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR E MAILS AND POSTS!
I cant even start to explain how nice and respectful the Thai people are! To us this just makes this whole thing so much worse, it happened to just about the nicest people on earth!
Anyway, as some of you have figured out our island was not hit, it hit Phuket and Phi Phi and by the time it made it to the other side of the gulf where we were I think the puch was gone! Our bungalow was right at the water front, here is a pic i took one night on the front porch of our bungalow. 
I hope this pic shows up on here! Those polls you see in the water are part of a festival called loy kratong, not sure if i already talked abt it in other posts, but it is a holiday to ask forgiveness for your sins against the godess of water. You make there little boats out of bananna leaves and sugar cane, then light a candle on the top of it and set it off into the ocean, if you boat makes it all the way out past where you can see and the candle is still lit you will have good luck next year! My wife and I are Baptist not Buddist so we just lit it and prayed  i will post more pics when i have some more time if you would like to see them????????
Anyway thanks again for all your concern and hope to re post again tomorrow with more pics!!!!!
PS we just found out that we have to go to work in South Africa in march, with a stop in europe on the way so maybe we can go to Euro Disney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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12-29-2004, 06:19 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
Oh, I am so relieved to see you posting!!!!! 
What a beautiful picture you posted. |
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12-29-2004, 06:24 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 23,859
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
Thank goodness you guys are okay!! YOur picture is gorgeous!! |
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12-29-2004, 06:45 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Virginia
Posts: 3,498
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
Thanks for posting! We are so glad you are safe.
Seems like you had a gorgeous honeymoon location. Wow...
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12-29-2004, 07:07 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: WI
Posts: 17,126
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
So glad to hear you guys made it home last week. That photo is breathtaking!
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12-29-2004, 10:56 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
I'm so glad you are OK!! I've been wondering about you!!
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12-29-2004, 11:33 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: northern california
Posts: 9,588
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
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12-29-2004, 11:37 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 3,968
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
<font color="blue">  Glad your home safe!</font> |
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12-30-2004, 05:08 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
What an amazing photo - and I'd love to see more! I'm so glad to hear you're home safe. |
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12-30-2004, 07:08 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
Welcome home. Glad to hear you are both safe and well.
I'd love to see more photos too. Especially if you offer the lovely commentary to go along with them, as you did with the first photo you posted. What a touching story! It must have been a beautiful sight, to see all the little banana leaf boats with lit candles floating on the water.
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12-30-2004, 07:48 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 8,784
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
Welcome home!!!
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12-30-2004, 09:42 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
Oh, look at that white sand. How heavenly! I am so glad to hear you are home safe. It is so sad about the tsunami.
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12-30-2004, 11:36 AM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: kansas city
Posts: 103
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
Here is the pic of our kratong! ofc we didnt make it, we bought it from the local temple for B90 which is like $2!
we also set up a photo site with some more of our pics, it is www.ajinterpreters.photosite.com check it out and let me know! jeffrey |
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12-30-2004, 03:30 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
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12-30-2004, 10:08 PM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Home from Thailand SAFE!!!!!!
So glad to hear you guys are safe and sound  |
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