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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.
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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Laurie the cat and dog are moving in with gemma in Scotland when we go to Australia. Scott the dog is too old for that journey. That way when the boys are home the animals can be too if gemma will part with them. She is really missing them
That's a great solution! I'm sure the animals and Gemma, too, will be happiest that way.
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Hazel, you look adorable, but if I'd attempted grilling with my good clothes on, I'd have had an accident guaranteed. Great pictures of the city on the way to the quay.
Saturday 22 March – part six: this smells of burning…
We headed down into the Metro system, and were right at the front of the train…
We changed trains when we got to Charles de Gaulle-Etoile, and when we got on board this train…
… there was a very odd smell of burning, as if someone had been burning wood. Thankfully it didn’t seem to affect our journey, although we did sit for some time at the next station we came to, before finally moving on.
We got off at Trocadero and walked through Palais de Chaillot, which was created for the World Fair of 1837.Once again, this was just beautiful in the early evening light.
Of course, everyone’s attention here goes in one direction – towards the Eiffel Tower. As someone commented (I don’t remember who now ), it’s amazing that this was literally build for an exhibition, and is still standing all those years later. I must admit I can’t help but think occasionally that it’s a shame we don’t do exhibitions on that sort of scale, as they did spawn some amazing structures.
Just as we crossed over one of the roads, as if on cue especially for us, the Eiffel Tower came to life, lighting up and it looked absolutely beautiful, looming over the River Seine with dark menacing clouds behind it.
Just a word about the weather… they really couldn’t have got it more wrong with the forecast if they’d tried. So much for it raining all afternoon and evening. Despite some very severe looking black clouds in the distance, we felt no more than a few drops of rain as we walked out of the Metro station – and thank goodness, as I don’t think we’d have seen anything through the windows of the boat had it been raining.
We made our way along the quay, seeing a couple of restaurants that looked as if they were moored, before finding ours.
Beautiful pictures, and so glad they were off on the weather!
Besides the Eiffel Tour, I'm sure Mark is so thankful for the NY Exposition of 1964. That gave us It's a Small World!!
Hazel, you look adorable, but if I'd attempted grilling with my good clothes on, I'd have had an accident guaranteed. Great pictures of the city on the way to the quay.
I didn't really have a lot of choice so I just hoped for the best
I don't think you could have timed that any better. The color of the sky and amount of lingering daylight is just gorgeous in those pictures. Really brings it to life - just lovely!
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Beautiful pictures, and so glad they were off on the weather!
Besides the Eiffel Tour, I'm sure Mark is so thankful for the NY Exposition of 1964. That gave us It's a Small World!!
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), it’s amazing that this was literally build for an exhibition, and is still standing all those years later. I must admit I can’t help but think occasionally that it’s a shame we don’t do exhibitions on that sort of scale, as they did spawn some amazing structures. 
So much for it raining all afternoon and evening. Despite some very severe looking black clouds in the distance, we felt no more than a few drops of rain as we walked out of the Metro station – and thank goodness, as I don’t think we’d have seen anything through the windows of the boat had it been raining. 
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