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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.
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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.
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What a bit of a rough morning! It seemed like a bit of a comedy of errors, Glad everything fit into your rental car. We've got a bit more fall foliage now on the trees. That rain was horrendous! Glad it passed quickly and it looks beautiful in Maine!
Sounds like you did quite well at the outlets!!! Years ago I was a cast member at our local Disney store and always enjoyed spreading the magic when guests would come through the door. I knew that guests wanted to feel the magic there that they felt when they were in the parks! Looks like you hit quite a rain storm but glad that it cleared up for you by the time you got to the outlet! The scenery is beautiful in Maine.
I'm so glad the rain didn't stay crazy for long. I get super scared when it rains that hard and I am driving. I usually pull over until I can see again.
That's me too.... once, when I was younger, I'd just carry on, but now I'm a bit older, I think I'm a bit more sensible when it comes to driving in the rain.
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Good job at the outlets!! It sounds like you made out great!!
And that is how accidents happen. Stupid drivers in the rain!
You are so right!
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Nice job shopping! Did you happen to notice any clearance items at the Disney store from the parks? The outlet in Gurnee, IL (just south of the WI border) always gets clearance things from Disneyland. Every single time I'm there, it's Disneyland branded stuff. I recently picked up a long sleeve 60th anniversary shirt for $12, and a few years ago got a sweatshirt for $8! Kinda cool! But maybe NH is too far away....
We looked, but everything in that section seemed to be small. They had a selection from both Disneyland and WDW.
Oh wow, I have got to put Maine on our bucket list of places to visit!!! Those last shots of the lighthouse and the houses on the shore are beautiful. I don't know what it is exactely but it conveys a cozy, quaint feel.
It is a beautiful place to visit and I can see why it's such a popular vacation stop. I really didn't know much about Maine before this trip, but we certainly saw some amazing scenery and trust me, you'll see when we get to it, but Acadia National Park is well worth a visit!
Sounds like you did quite well at the outlets!!! Years ago I was a cast member at our local Disney store and always enjoyed spreading the magic when guests would come through the door. I knew that guests wanted to feel the magic there that they felt when they were in the parks!
Oh completely - you definitely had the right Disney attitude!
Looks like a fun morning, but that rain was just insane with such a tremendous downpour! You were quite successful at the outlets with some nice purchases! Mark is alway in need of another Grumpy tee as I'm sure he can't have too many! Glad you were able to work with a great CM in the Disney Store for your purchases as that is always helpful, when you really need them!
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Glad everything fit into your rental car. We've got a bit more fall foliage now on the trees. That rain was horrendous! Glad it passed quickly and it looks beautiful in Maine!
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They had a selection from both Disneyland and WDW.
Can't wait to hear about lunch at one of our favorites!
You were quite successful at the outlets with some nice purchases! 
Glad you were able to work with a great CM in the Disney Store for your purchases as that is always helpful, when you really need them! 
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