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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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DopeyGirl goes to Disneyland!!! THREAD 2 --- COMPLETED 8/14 (2 updates)
DAY 3 PART 2 – Disney ---- West Coast style!!!
<font color="red">Those of you that are experienced Disneylanders will have to excuse my sometimes “in-depth” explanation of Disneyland!!!  Even though I have been there a few times, it was 11 years since my last trip . . . and I went into my report with the mindset that there are quite a few people on the boards who have never been at all . . . </font>
<font color="blue">Well . . . it was coming up on around 2:30pm-ish and we had seen all that we had intended on seeing in our very short time in the beautiful city of San Diego  , so after we had driven across the Coronado Bay Bridge, we made our way to Interstate 5 and headed north. We hit a little bit of road construction and congestion near Del Mar (they were working on the freeways AND the SD County Fair was going on at the Del Mar Fairgrounds/Racetrack!!!) but after that it was smooth sailing all the way to Anaheim. I was able to snag a picture of Angel Stadium . . . oh, excuse me . . . Angel Stadium of Anaheim, the official home of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim  (Does anyone remember when they were just the plain old California Angels and they played at Anaheim Stadium? What’s up with the dumb name changes?) ANYWAY . . .
As we got into Anaheim and approached the area on I-5 that we would need to be getting off . . . we kind of got into a discussion about which exit it was that we had to take. I don’t know HOW many times I said the words “Disney Way”, but it never fazed Emilie. She just kept on staring out the window, like “Where ARE we?” She didn’t even get it when I took pictures out the window of the Tower of Terror!!! So we took our exit, and as we were Emilie saw an “Adopt-a-Highway” sign that was sponsored by Disneyland . . . she nonchalantly says “Hey, I saw a sign that said Disneyland on it. That’s funny.” STILL not getting the idea, that girl!!! Even when we stopped at the traffic light (or was it a stop sign?) at the top of the exit and we could see the Matterhorn right there to our left, did she get it? NO!!!  Truth be told, she didn’t REALLY get the idea until we went down Harbor Boulevard a bit further and she saw the sign over the walkway entrance right by the hotel we were staying at!!! Then it was “WE’RE AT DISNEYLAND!!! OH MY GOODNESS!!! DISNEYLAND AND DISNEY CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE IN CALIFORNIA!!! MOM!!!” (What? You think she doesn’t know about EVERYTHING Disney?  ) It was even BETTER than the reaction she had when I surprised her with our girls only trip to WDW last January!!! (Wow . . . how am I going to top that in November? Any ideas? Anyone?)</font>
Tower of Terror from Interstate 5 (and taken while driving about 60 MPH!)
Matterhorn taken while waiting to turn left from our freeway exit!
Entrance plaza into the Disneyland Resort!!!
<font color="blue">We checked into our hotel, the Park Vue Inn, right around 4:30pm. We were in (the VERY tiny) room 109. We unloaded the car and, once we did, there wasn’t too much room to walk around the room . . . ESPECIALLY not with 4 people in there!!! The beds were SUPER hard . . . but you know what? I was at frickin’ Disneyland and I didn’t give a rip!!! 
  
We turned on the TV for a couple of minutes while we looked at the street map to get our bearings (so much has changed over the past few years!) and I brought out the Golden Mickey Ears!!! Emilie has always been interested in reading maps, and this trip, she got WAY into it. She became our little navigator </font>
 
Emilie and her Poppa (my dad) checking out the first map of the trip!
CONTINUED IN NEXT POST!!!
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