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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Hello fellow Passporters. I was recently given the duty of planning a trip for our Boyscout group, and having found all of you a most helpful bunch when I planned our Disney trip, I knew I would call on you all again. I need info and tips for Morgantown WV. I am looking for a place for about 40ish folks to stay, such as a school or hostel. They will be in route to the national Jamboree, and need an overnight stop on the way there and again on the way home. We are trying to keep the cost as low as possible. Ther is a Trinity Christian School there, which I plan to contact, as well as several campgrounds. But if any of you are from there or know anything about it I would sure appreciate the help! Thanks so much
A thoughtful suggestion.....Call the areas district office (or what ever you call it) of the Boy Scouts and see if they can help you in the way of lodging. They might have or know of facilities or other organizations that can help you. Others meaning such organizations as Masonic Lodges, etc. Many of these lodges store extra cots and blankets.
Your local office should have access to the correct phone numbers to contact or write to.
Use your imagination of other local organizations, people, companies, etc. that you work with. Possibly a father or mother of one of thr scouts knows of or has a connection.
Are Boy Scouts allowed to receive contributions? If so put the boys in uniform and visit local stores on a Saturday. A local printer might print some Thank You certificates for free (tax deductable). If it is not legal with the BSA I am sure someone can come up with a similiar legal way.
As last resort here are the addresses and phone numbers of other BSAs around Morgantown.
I don't think there are any military bases there. There are a lot of hotels in Morgantown though because of WVU. Try contacting WVU too see if they can help out, I don't know when you are going but if it's when there is no school in session they may be able to let you have some dorm rooms or something.
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Since Morgantown is my stomping ground, I was really excited to read this...and then I realized that I have no idea how to help, because I have no experience with Boy Scouts.
You have gotten several really good suggestions here - I definitely think you should contact the Mountaineer Area Council. It says that they're located in Fairmont, WV, which is really just 15 minutes outside of Morgantown. (And Fairmont is located on the I-79, which is the main interstate in the Morgantown area, and connects to I-68, if you are taking that route instead.) At the very least, they can give you some very solid suggestions as far as affordable housing, if not offer to let you use their campgrounds.
My second suggestion would to try and contact WVU's Extension Office in Morgantown. They work primarily with communities around the state, and are very big in 4-H (a kind of "farmer's" Boy Scouts, if you will). Their contact page is here: http://www.wvu.edu/~exten/contact.htm.
I'm not really sure which branch you would use - but they could also give you very good general information, if not help you out completely - this sort of thing is very much what they do.
When is your trip? Because you might not want to camp out if it's in the late fall/winter/early spring - Morgantown gets very cold (we are in the mountains!).
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