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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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03-06-2005, 01:56 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
Sorry dinner stunk . . . but at least you beat the traffic and were about to be on your way. You didn't sleep because you were excited, right? 
Great new sig pic . . . I wanna go back to DL!!!  |
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03-06-2005, 02:12 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
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Location: Newtown Square, PA
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
Terri, the Bennigan's around here is the same! The service is hit or miss and so is the food! Glad you got safely down to Orlando, though and you will soon be on your way!!  |
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03-06-2005, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Northern NV
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
I love your teacup picture!
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03-06-2005, 06:58 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
Great start to your report. Can't wait to hear the rest. Love your picture on the tea cups with Cheryl.
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03-06-2005, 10:33 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: In the state of Disney Dreaming!
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
We've gotten to the point that we just take 417 between traffic and road construction, it is so worth it!
We used to love Bennigan's when we were living in Philly. This was mega years ago. They had a dessert death by chocolate that was a hard shell chocolate. I recall last time we went, DH said the dessert was the same name, but not the same thing.
Can't wait for you to wake up! I'm excited to hear your first reaction of DL!
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03-06-2005, 11:09 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
You couldn't sleep because you were to excited about going on your trip. More please.
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03-07-2005, 05:01 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Location: UK
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
I'm sorry your dinner wasn't great Terri. I'm looking forward to you arriving at DL  .
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03-07-2005, 05:33 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
Sorry the food wasn't to your liking Terri 
More please  |
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03-07-2005, 03:38 PM
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Community Rank: Sightseer 
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
(Note: I’m just going to add my thoughts to Terri’s report so it’s all together)
Clarification:
I only had to pay a $2.50 handling fee for my Southwest Airline ticket b/c I used a credit
My Airtran airline ticket was about $103.00
Cheryl’s Night Before:
Luckily, I was able to catch an earlier train out of Philadelphia, PA – although there was a bit of confusion at the train station b/c I was standing in the wrong line and didn’t realize it until I got to Amtrak window. Opps! … I was also not in the clearest frame of mind b/c I was alternating between Dayquil and Nyquil. Earlier in the week, my contractor had gotten the flu and had passed it on to me (Hope you didn’t get sick too, Tara!) By this point, I was really anxious to get home b/c I had a lot of errands to do, like find my airline tickets! … My train arrived at Union Station in Washington, DC around 4pm. At which point, I had to hike all the way to the top level of the parking garage to clear the snow off my car with an old eye glass case b/c I didn’t have an ice scraper handy. I was a bit concerned that I was going to hit rush hour traffic, but I found out later that the Federal Government was let our early. This actually worked out to my advantage b/c I was able to make pretty good time driving and got to my neighborhood around 5pm. Instead of going home and packing like a sane person, I decided to quickly swing by Target to pick up a vacuum cleaner. One hour and a full shopping cart later, I find my car in the parking lot and proceed homeward. By this point, it’s around 7pm and I STILL haven’t packed for my trip yet. Instead, I’m cleaning my house, reviewing my mail/bills, returning phone calls, etc. I didn’t start officially packing until 9pm and that’s when I got the shock of my life – I COULDN’T FIND MY AIRLINE TICKETS ANYWHERE!! For the next two hours, I tore my house apart! In the end, I decided to go to bed and look for the tickets in the morning when I could think more clearly. … When the alarm went off at 2am, I decided to look in my box of shredding b/c it was the only place I hadn’t looked the night before. Low and behold, there were my airline tickets! Thank goodness I procrastinated on my shredding! Phew! … Even with all of that drama, I got out of the house on time and made it to BWI around 4:30am to catch my 6am flight, which was delayed due to de-icing. In the end, I still arrived at LAX before Terri and was waiting for her at baggage claim as previously planned.
Next Up: The Car Rental Shuffle and Getting Lost w/ “Never Lost”!
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03-07-2005, 03:48 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
Great report so far Terri & Cheryl. I love hearing both of your thoughts. |
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03-07-2005, 05:46 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
Whew!! Thank goodness you found your tickets Cheryl.
Karen
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03-07-2005, 06:07 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: In the state of Disney Dreaming!
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
 With the shredding documents! Oh, so glad you delayed and they were safe and sound!
Glad to hear you've now made it to CA too! Can't wait to hear about your first thoughts of DL.
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03-07-2005, 08:23 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
Whoo-Hoo!! You made it LAX, Cheryl!! Sorry you aren't feeling well and I sure hope you get better!!
P.S. So glad your tickets were intact! |
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03-07-2005, 09:05 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: California
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
Losing your tickets must have been a horrible feeling. I hope you are feeling better now.
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03-08-2005, 05:50 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
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Re: Disneyland/NASCAR - Terri\'s report - 3/4/05
Great update Cheryl Thank goodness you didn't shred the tickets 
Hurry back with more |
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