Jan 2016: Everyone and Their Mother Goes to Disney - Page 4 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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so loving this and knowing that other people have such fun (note sarcasm) taking family and groups. We took my best friend with us one time and I swear it was easier to travel and plan with the 40 teenage girls that it was with her!! Never again.
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Yay Dad!! Are you on FB? We have sooo much in common! I will have to look you up and tell you about our upcoming trip that I am now calling it "your mothers trip" We planned it made all the plans, now she is trying to call all the shots and added yourself to the said vacation! Now telling us which car we are going to drive! Yeah I will find you on FB if you have an account
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Me and Cole in the Sears Tower Skydeck, 103 floors up, in a glass box hanging off the side!
Tagging along for the total entertainment you are sharing with us all. We just returned from our family Disney trip and my MIL and Aunt-in-law tagged along. My husband actually said (but does not remember) he sees why I get so frustrated with him when he doesn't "hear" what I am saying. Let's just say the apple does not fall far from the tree...
isn't it cold where your mom lives in winter? I would bet that Florida is still warmer. I get that when I tell people I'm going in the summer. "Florida is so hot in the summer" Hello - it is going to be 95 for the next 3 days here - that is hot too!
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so loving this and knowing that other people have such fun (note sarcasm) taking family and groups. We took my best friend with us one time and I swear it was easier to travel and plan with the 40 teenage girls that it was with her!! Never again.
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Originally Posted by OCEANGRLLG
Yay Dad!! Are you on FB? We have sooo much in common! I will have to look you up and tell you about our upcoming trip that I am now calling it "your mothers trip" We planned it made all the plans, now she is trying to call all the shots and added yourself to the said vacation! Now telling us which car we are going to drive! Yeah I will find you on FB if you have an account
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Originally Posted by mombrinson
Tagging along for the total entertainment you are sharing with us all. We just returned from our family Disney trip and my MIL and Aunt-in-law tagged along. My husband actually said (but does not remember) he sees why I get so frustrated with him when he doesn't "hear" what I am saying. Let's just say the apple does not fall far from the tree...
I've said several times, just to my husband, that we are never, ever doing this again!!! Famous last words and all...
Thank goodness for dad! Looking forward to the next instalment
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Originally Posted by Cam22
Your Dad is a hero! I love your description of your mom's tone of voice.
My father is damn near a saint. He watches Adam one day a week, I think because dealign with a four year old is actually easier than my mother!! Jake says everything he learned about 'happy wife, happy life' he learned from my dad--stuff it down, all of it down, just shut up, grip the steering wheel harder, ignore the yammering and move on. Says a lot for me, doesn't!!
He's generally slow to speak up, but has become increasingly vocal in his old age. There was a time, before a heart attack and quadrupal bypass, that he displayed almost no emotion. He says he didn't have the energy. I guess now he does. Here's hoping the bypass lasts forever!!
isn't it cold where your mom lives in winter? I would bet that Florida is still warmer. I get that when I tell people I'm going in the summer. "Florida is so hot in the summer" Hello - it is going to be 95 for the next 3 days here - that is hot too!
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Originally Posted by MikeL
Hurray for dad. Might also want to remind mom that Fla tends to get feet less of White Global Warming than Upstate NY
She lives five miles from me, all year, in Western NY. It's a blessing...right? To have your mother so close...
One of my many worries with this trip is the snow and delayed flights. I prefer direct with SW always, because preschooler, but especially in winter. If we are delayed I know there is no connection and that eventually that plane of people will get to Orlando.
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