The Big Kahuna Family's Welcome Home **Updated 6/6** COMPLETE! - Page 10 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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.
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Great wrap-up! Thanks for sharing your trip with us. It's nice to be welcomed home.
I am looking forward to periodic TRs from you about DL. I am also hoping to get there in the next couple of years.
We'll have to meet you at Napa Rose.
BTW, the new RED cell phone arrives on Monday. Woo hoo!!
Finally had time to finish your TR, and really enjoyed doing so. It sounds like you had a warm welcome home and I thank you for allowing us to join you. I look forward to reading about your next adventure! (I'll miss you by a month!)
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
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Finally had time to finish your TR, and really enjoyed doing so. It sounds like you had a warm welcome home and I thank you for allowing us to join you. I look forward to reading about your next adventure! (I'll miss you by a month!)
Sharon, thanks for stopping by. Does this mean you're going to Disneyland? Sorry we'll miss you but can't wait to read your TR.
Your trip give me goose boops because it nice to see the comparing of the Disney's parks and I've been to both as well. For being in a wheelchair I like WDW better then I do DLR. Since I can get around easier and I can get on more ride in my chair. But I like DLR-DownTown Disney better then I do in FLorida. The DTD in Florida is too big and it to far out from the mian park. At Disney World I love the monorail going to hotels and the MK and EPCOT. But it is also nice going to DL once or twice a year (I live in San Diego and by trian it takes only 2 houes to get there) espceilly since the Grand Califorian been built.
Your trip give me goose boops because it nice to see the comparing of the Disney's parks and I've been to both as well. For being in a wheelchair I like WDW better then I do DLR. Since I can get around easier and I can get on more ride in my chair. But I like DLR-DownTown Disney better then I do in FLorida. The DTD in Florida is too big and it to far out from the mian park. At Disney World I love the monorail going to hotels and the MK and EPCOT. But it is also nice going to DL once or twice a year (I live in San Diego and by trian it takes only 2 houes to get there) espceilly since the Grand Califorian been built.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, TNT. You make a good point about the ease of getting around at WDW. I've seen older couples touring on their scooters together and imagined we might do that some day, too. My favorite part about WDW is the expansiveness of the land and the fabulous resorts - I've spent many wonderful hours enjoying those and not even venturing into the parks. And that's why I love the Grand Californian - it's a WDW-type hotel at DL - woo hoo! I'm glad you enjoyed the report.
You know about the CGH. I though it was like a WDW feel hotel , but I thought because it was just new but your right. I wish the monorail would stop there not just going through it, can you imagine how guest could go into DL this way. Right now there only two stops.
By there way I hope to begin to be a guide for the disable and I will have a web site up as soon I take a class on web creation. So Thank You for the compliment.
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What a great TR!! 
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but your right. I wish the monorail would stop there not just going through it, can you imagine how guest could go into DL this way. Right now there only two stops. 
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