Escaping Election Chaos - UPDATED 10/23 - Page 3 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Everything fell right into place! So nice to have a few days before the trip without going to work, even if those days are getting busy.
It really did! I was a little worried..it was almost too easy!
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Originally Posted by Cam22
You two will be dining very well while in the World! I can't wait to hear about all of them.
We really will! we have been going over the menus often!
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Originally Posted by BlueCinderellaEyes
yummy dinner choices! glad your plans worked out and you get to fit everyone in!
We are really happy to be going to some old favorites we haven't done in a while!
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Originally Posted by bsblady01
more please
Theres not much more, wrapping up getting ready! Just a few more days!
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Originally Posted by chezp
So glad everything worked out for you - great plans!
Thanks, it really did work well!
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Originally Posted by MomOnTheGo
I've really been enjoying this so far, and can't wait to read more.
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Colexis Mom
Congrats on BLT! Love the dining choices!
Thanks, we are excited!
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Originally Posted by nursemom
Your plans sound great! I bet BLT will be a nice choice. It is so convenient to be so close to the MK. I love Kona for breakfast too! The macadamia nut pancakes were delicious. Have a wonderful trip!
Thanks! It's a chance to try BLT without major outlay of points, and a short trip, less time on buses, the better!
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I'm enjoying reading this already! I can't wait to hear more. Glad that all of your dining plans fell right into place
Thanks! I hope the TR lives up to it!
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Originally Posted by MayraLR
Congrats on getting all your adr choices! Your trip is so close!
As we drove out of the Pentagon parking lot yesterday, Sulley and I glanced at each other and grinned! What a wonderful sense of freedom! We would have cheered, but we did have a rider and we didn't want to scare her!
But all was good and we made good time to the commuter lot and dropped our passenger off. Sulley immediately changed the audio from our local news to music from Spaceship Earth and we cheered!
We came home and immediately turned on the weather looking for a Hurricane Sandy update. It looks like the worst will be over by Wednesday morning when we are scheduled to fly out. Any extra pixie dust would be greatly appreciated, though! Sulley poured himself a beer and made me a FAB and we toasted the beginning of our 17 days of bliss. We both need to get away from the area as we both work for politicals and THINGS ARE TENSE, to say the least.
Today I awoke at 6, and stretched and enjoyed the soft light filtering through the window and listening to Sulley softly snoring beside me. I got up after a few minutes, took care of things then padded downstairs to prepare a cup of coffee. Lots of things are on today's agenda, things pushed into a day because of the weather threat, but we are ready and raring to go! I've been to my stylist and have been freshly shorn (it looks the same as the picture below) and we've been to the grocery store to stock up on a few provisions we will need for the next few days. We also filled up my truck Tink with gas. Soon we will head out to the dry cleaners and the Spa where I will get a pedicure while Sulley gets his hairs cut. Lunch will be in there somewhere, perhaps Panera. I sure hope they have my favorite tomato soup! Then back home, laundry and packing! No, I haven't begun to pack. How bad am I?
Not long now!! Only a few more days........now if we could just get Sandy to leave us alone.....
I love that you changed your radio station to the Spaceship Earth soundtrack! DH loves the soundtracks from Disney - his alarm used to be the soundtrack from AK! Have a great time and safe travels! Pixies for good weather mojo!
for keeping Sandy well behaved!!! We are bracing for her up here in CT too - not going to be fun - last year with Irene we were without power for 7nts/8days!!!
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How in the world did I miss your TR???? I am so happy you are doing this and you have put me to shame that I have neither done a PTR nor a TR from our fall vacation (to be entitled - 3 trips in 1).
I am so happy we get to see you and Sulley, even if it's just for a few hours. So, get to that packing girl! I've got our luggage out and some of my clothes are in the staging mode. DH of course will not begin to think about packing until sometime Thursday evening or perhaps Friday morning since we don't fly out until late afternoon.
Safe travels. Sending lots of pixies that Sandy does indeed leave you alone. See you both very soon.
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Sulley poured himself a beer and made me a FAB and we toasted the beginning of our 17 days of bliss. We both need to get away from the area as we both work for politicals and THINGS ARE TENSE, to say the least. 
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