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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I’m Ginger, Co-Author of PassPorter's Disneyland Resort and Southern California Attractions guidebook, and guide for the Craft Room: Collecting and Scrapbooking, Southern California Attractions, and Using Disney Tech forums.
As I write this, I've visited Walt Disney World 15 times and Disneyland 12 times. I think I could watch fireworks every night for the rest of my life and not get bored!
I retired a few years ago from the Air Force as a colonel, with 15 years active duty and 9 in the Reserves. Before that, I was a reporter and weekend anchor at a small television station in West Virginia. Nowadays, I keep myself busy serving as a volunteer tutor 3 days a week at a local elementary school; I’m also the volunteer coordinator for all the tutors at the school—tutoring is kind of my calling. The rest of the time, I’m an assistant Scoutmaster and merit badge counselor for my sons’ Boy Scout troop, following about 10 years as a Cub Scout den leader—that keeps me busy, and around teenage boys a lot!
And did I mention that I love Disney?? Having the two sons makes for handy excuses to feed the obsession with trips to WDW. Happy circumstance had my husband going to annual conferences at Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel for a number of years, while I dutifully went along to keep him company...and visit my happy place!
I’m a native of the Tidewater, Virginia, region, and my husband is from Long Island, New York. We actually met in South Korea, when we were both stationed there. We ended up near Dayton, Ohio—it’s the last place we were stationed, and it’s home now. If we could just manage to make the winters about 20 degrees warmer, and move it a little closer to my hometown, it would be just perfect!
I started scrapbooking in the summer of 2000, when my younger son was a baby and his brother was 5. The baby scrapbook albums I made at the time were okay for a beginner, but my style has continued to grow and evolve in the years since. I loooooooove pretty paper and, since I’m fortunate enough to have a scrapbooking room in my basement, I have a fairly huge collection that I’m trying to use up! My Disney papers have their own special drawers, of course .
My ambition is for my engineering-major older son to become an Imagineer, so we’d move to a warmer climate to be close to him….and the Mouse, of course! That’s not his ambition at this point, unfortunately, but a girl can dream, can't she?
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I’m Ginger, Co-Author of PassPorter's Disneyland Resort and Southern California Attractions guidebook, and guide for the Craft Room: Collecting and Scrapbooking, Southern California Attractions, and Using Disney Tech forums.
. Before that, I was a reporter and weekend anchor at a small television station in West Virginia
. Nowadays, I keep myself busy serving as a volunteer tutor 3 days a week at a local elementary school; I’m also the volunteer coordinator for all the tutors at the school—tutoring is kind of my calling
. The rest of the time, I’m an assistant Scoutmaster and merit badge counselor for my sons’ Boy Scout troop, following about 10 years as a Cub Scout den leader—that keeps me busy, and around teenage boys a lot!
. If we could just manage to make the winters about 20 degrees warmer, and move it a little closer to my hometown, it would be just perfect!
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