Two Chips and a Dip (The Appetizer Trip) Nov 30 thru Dec 5, 2007 - With Final Thoughts - COMPLETE - Updated 2/21 - Page 18 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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 much to comment on. That’ll teach me to neglect the boards.
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Not to be catty, but he had the worst wig on his head -- and, after years in the theatre, I've seen my fair share of bad wigs! This one might’ve been mistaken for a flattened cat or a skanky bearskin rug. It made it very hard for me to look at him straight on without getting the giggles. Bob was blissfully unaware of this because his glasses were still fogged from him new best friend, the HOT waterfall. I chatted with this fellow and did my best not to guffaw when he scratched one side of his head and the wig skittered across his scalp. (Thank goodness that Calder was able to contain himself too!)
Considering the way I'm giggling right now, having not witnessed the bad rug, I totally would've been snickering in the guy's face.
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I, on the other hand, sat there staring at the ceiling for the next couple of hours.
Amateur!
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Bob removed the hat from his head with a look that told me something smelled less than fresh. When questioned, Bob said that he just realized that probably a hundred people had put that hat on their sweaty heads already that day. I'm passing along a bit of advice to you all – when buying a sombrero in this pavilion, always take one from the bottom of the stack!
This is exactly why you don’t see me posing with funny hats on (unless of course it’s my own funny hat). And when I buy a hat, I take from the bottom – but not the bottom one because that could be contaminated too, I take the second or third from the bottom. Top THAT Bob!
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Knowing that Calder won’t eat anything on offer at Morocco and being gently reminded by him that my vacation rules applied (he only has to eat one nutritional meal a day on Disney property), he asked if he could have a funnel cake in America for "lunch." We stood in a short line and he got a nice, dripping, dusted plate of fatty dough, drizzled with chocolate sauce.
A word of advice to you – keep Calder away from my mother. That’s her idea of a normal lunch.
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I concocted a mix of coffee, hot chocolate, creamer and sugar and stepped back outside into the lovely sunshine.
You should hang out with my mother. That’s her idea of a normal cup of coffee.
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Then it was on to World of Disney, where I planned on doing some serious damage. Unfortunately, I was surprised at how homogenized all the merchandise was. The stuff in here was exactly the stuff we’d seen in the resort gift shop and at MouseGears the other day.
Sadly, that’s been my experience on my last few trips. Disappointing.
And can I say how much I love Bob & Calder's picture fights? Fabulous!
More, more, more!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
I started at page 1 and have worked my way through to the last posting. What a TR. Glad you had so much fun. Can't wait to read the CLT part of it now.
I love your TR's. Makes me feel like I'm there. More please!!!
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