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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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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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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I'll be sure to let my BF know - I'm not really good with heights. He, however, would love ziplining I am sure
They kind of work you up to longer higher zips...you take a truck up the mountain to the first zipline station and actually start from the ground and zip over to the second station in the trees. I'm not great with heights, but it was amazing!! You are always clipped on so something with a safety line...you have two so at least one is ALWAYS attached to the trees or the zip cables at all times. If you can bring yourself to do it, the views are gorgeous and it is so exhilarating!!
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Texas is so large and so diverse, it would take a couple of weeks to do it justice. The Hill Country region right in the middle is beautiful with many lakes and rivers - very popular for camping and tubing all summer. The Gulf Coast has some interesting sights but pales in comparison to the other 2 coasts. The Big Bend National Park is amazing but huge. The East Piney Woods is very pretty lots of history. The San Antonio Zoo is a good one. Highly recommend Palo Duro Canyon and the "Texas!" stage show there. DH & I hope to see all the states in retirement. I have been to about 40 of states in my lifetime.
Texas is so large and so diverse, it would take a couple of weeks to do it justice. The Hill Country region right in the middle is beautiful with many lakes and rivers - very popular for camping and tubing all summer. The Gulf Coast has some interesting sights but pales in comparison to the other 2 coasts. The Big Bend National Park is amazing but huge. The East Piney Woods is very pretty lots of history. The San Antonio Zoo is a good one. Highly recommend Palo Duro Canyon and the "Texas!" stage show there. DH & I hope to see all the states in retirement. I have been to about 40 of states in my lifetime.
This is good info -- we were struggling with Texas. Thanks
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Little Big Horn Battlefield If you can catch the reinactment the later part of June.
Big Horn County Museum
Huntley Project Agriculture Experiment Station Museum. There is also a Threshing bee held in the summer
Yellowstone County Muesum
Moss Mansion
Yellowstone Art Center
Western Heritage Center
Zoo Montana
Canyon Creek Battlefield marker located N of Laurel
Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary
Carbon County Museum
Mine Disaster Site at Bear Creek, MT ( this is on private land so you can't see much other than the buildings in a distance and the marker .
Cooke City Highway this goes into Wyoming and back into Montana from Red Lodge to the Yellowstone Park Entrance of Cooke City/Silver Gate
Museum of the Rockies
Virginia City
Quake Lake
Bannack
South Dakota
Mount Rushmore I highly recommend going in the late afternoon into the evening to explore the grounds including the studio and staying for the lighting ceremony opposed to going first thing in the day
1800s train from Hill City to Keystone or in the reverse and back you can spend time in the other city exploring in between
Custer State Park including Wildlife loop, Needles Highway, Iron Mountain Rd-Best is to take it going into Keystone opposed to the other way since you can see Mount Rushmore coming through some of the tunnels
Mamouth Site at Hot Springs
Scenic Loop through the Spearfish Canyon
Little House Homestead and Surveyor House at De Smet
There is a natural history museum at the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City
Reptile Gardens
Place to Stay Crooked Creek Campground located a few minutes south of Hill City. There are a number of choices ranging from tent or bring your own trailer to rustic cabins that have no heat or electric ( We stayed in one in late June 14 and were very happy that my mother in law thought she needed bedding for their room at the Inn accomadations as we used them. Cabin was large we were in # 11 and had 2 queen size beds plus a set of twin beds in bunks a small table and a couple of chairs. They also have nicer cabins some which have their own bathrooms. There is an outdoor heated pool and a small playground. Staff is friendly and this is on my list of places to stay again though we will be going for a cabin that has more than the one we stayed in at the family reunion but at least we were not camping in a tent.
For those with small children
Storybook Island in Rapid City
Storybook Land at Aberdeen
Wyoming Besides Yellowstone
Heart Mountain Interpretive Center I have not been to this one but it was well liked by those from my local homeschooling group who were able to make the trip. We did not go due to our kids being too young to really get much out of it and knowing that to go any distance we have to rent a vehicle for the day.
Buffalo Bill Cody Museum ( Do allow at least 2 days as it is 5 museums in one)
There is a Dam located on the road to Yellowstone from Cody not too far that is interesting
Devils Tower
All of these places except where noted I have been to personally though some of them were when I was growing up so it may have been 20-30 years.
I just saw this again and need to disagree with Holly. New Englland in winter is so different from NE in the summer and the fall is unbelieveable. I could vacation in New England forever and never get tired of it.
I wanted to add as a New Englander who travels to Texas regularly, beware of Texas in the summer. It is ungodly hot (and often humid, too). My son is in Houston and he says you can count the number of really nice days on one hand (warm, not hot, clear and sunny and dry). Also it is big-huge- and distances between cities are more than between states up here.
Highlight of a family visit to the hill country was seeing bats emerge from a cave) thousands of them. I have also tried to see bats coming out from bridges in Houston and Austin but we have never caught it right.
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