A Hop, NO Skip, and Many Mishaps to a Disney Dream - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Glad you had a good day at sea world, I would have been upset about the camera charger too...but we have done that as well, leaving things in the room (we actually just did it on our most recent trip with a phone charger). Glad you were able to find another one, even though it did seem quite expensive. Looks like a yummy dinner!
I was in shock wit hthe price. And it wasn't even a "Disney" price. LOL!
Dinner was good!
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Originally Posted by lauriep
Sorry the charger was so expensive. We're ruled now by all these electronic gizmos, wires and chargers. Hard to keep track. I have a drawer full of wires from I don't know what! They really do give you a lot of food at Cheesecake Factory! I have one just a couple of blocks away and have never tried the pizza. Looked very tasty!
I just ordered (and recieved) a mobile charger for my phone. I was so tire of my phone going dead so fast this past trip. I did a lot of posting to facebook and it just wears that battery down fast. One of hte other girls had a mobile charger and it was so neat. She never ran out of of battrery charge. I got it yesterday and it works great so far...but of course I had to order a cord so I could plug it in the wall to charge as well. Another item to add to my packing list in the future.
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Originally Posted by pamcarey
Wow! I can't believe how much that charger cost! Your pizza at Cheesecake Factory looked great!
I about fainted. There is no way in real life I woule EVER pay that much for one.
The pizza was pretty good.
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Originally Posted by rhinohunter
WOW all that for one charger. Your meal sure looked good. The cheesecake sounds great. would like to have some right now.
I could go for some now too.
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Originally Posted by jennie622
WOW! I can't believe the charger was so expensive!!!!
I used to work at a Cheesecake Factory about 6-7 years ago and there were 260 menu items!!!! My advice, go for items that are exclusive to CF, they are delicious. Items you can get elsewhere (Chinese, Mexican, Italian) are so so. Their salads are the bomb!! Wish I had one close to me right now!
Thats good to know. I had never been to one before and it was kind of overwelming.
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Originally Posted by mommapants
All caught up - so sad the stories about all the whales. I didn't think they still caught them from the wild but I guess 34 years ago they did - I think they are all breed in captivity now??
The Cheescake factory near me is always super crowded. The last time I went was only because I had a gift card and we waited over an hour to be seated - no thank you - no cheescake is THAT good.
Yes they are all bred in captivity now. I can't remember how long ago, but it was banned from capturing them I guess I just never think about how they got there. It wasn't like Tinkerbell sprinkled pixie dust and they just flew there because they wanted to. (an Tink doesn't work for Sea World anyways. LOL)
Does the CF do to go orders? That could be bad though. I would order cheescake every night!
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