Family, friends, and a Baby!! 8 is definitely enough!! POFQ 8/11-8/15 **Updated 9/21** COMPLETE - Page 30 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
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What a wonderful day! the photo of Danny! Sounds like you had a great time enjoying tea and then Epcot, with Mary. Can't wait to hear about B&C and your NoWayJose! (I'm still trying to decide between that and the Mudslide - I keep going back & forth)
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I have got to try the tea at the GF! That sounded like a very nice and relaxing day. Glad to hear you liked Kona, we are eating there for the first time in September.
Welcome back Amanda Sorry we didn't cross paths And sorry it was so hot and crowded for you guys I guess that was the only good thing about the TS was it drove everyone out of the parks
I'm glad you've been having a great time!! Great pictures too!! More please
I can't wait to hear about your cheeseburger & No Way Jose @ Beaches & Cream!! I swear if we're lucky enough to keep our trip in December I am going to get a Kitchen Sink for me and the kids as I think we deserve it!!
Love how when you & the "boys" split up you just went with the flow & made your own magic......those can be the best of times.
I saw the tail end of Spectro and was bummed to find out it's only being offered 2 nights the week we're there......and I had to rearrange our favorite meal at Coral Reef to a lunch slot to "get 'er done". Definitely looking forward to seeing it though.
Didn't mean to hijack your thread.......hope you come back with another update soon!
What a great day Amanda...glad you got to enjoy some rides before you all split up. Your tea sounded wonderful (definitely something I want to try on one of our future trips). I think you made a great choice by taking advantage of your time by going through the WS ( I could spend days just walking through all the different pavillions).
Glad everyone enjoyed their meal at Kona's (we are finally going there in December). I can definitely see why this was your favorite say (and I haven't even heard about the rest of your trip).
Just caught up! Sounds like a great first two days. But the second day did seem like heaven...unplanned...unrushed....and fun! I'm so glad to hear about your tea experience and too love the soaps at the basin...which reminds me to check it out while i'm there to bring some home!
Glad to hear everyone is falling along with the plans and the unplans.....i cant wait to hear all about beaches and creams!!!
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Sounds like you had a nice relaxing day where everyone got to do what made them happy! I've done the GF tea a few times and have enjoyed myself each time. Glad you were able to walk around the WS with a good friend. It's one of the most relaxing things to do while at WDW I think. Can't wait to read more.
The walk between the resorts must have been nice, we didn't do that, but we got to take the carriage ride which goes between the two, and we thought that was great.
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the photo of Danny! Sounds like you had a great time enjoying tea and then Epcot, with Mary. Can't wait to hear about B&C and your NoWayJose! (I'm still trying to decide between that and the Mudslide - I keep going back & forth)
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