Go your own way - Decade of Dreams - UPDATED 6/24 - COMPLETE!! - Page 19 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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.
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All caught up finally! Sorry to hear about your state leaving Mark! I would have been the same way I think. Glad when you arrived at BW you started to feel better.
Sorry about the R&C meal. My in-laws just got back and said it wasn’t as good as it used
to be. Great BW photos! Great Illuminations photos! the Eiffel Tower in them!
Thanks for chiming in Wendy – it definitely adds to the TR!
Great updates! The view from the Boardwalk Inn is lovely. I really must indulge me a concierge stay some day.
I agree that your vegetable curry looks nothing like that which you could expect from the Taj Mahal on a Friday night. I keep thinking about trying the Rose and Crown but I'm put off by its........Englishness .
More please.
Yep, you're right about it being nothing like an Indian at home on a Friday night...
Great updates! Your meal looks great! We are trying the Rose and Crown for the first time in a couple of weeks so I was glad to see your pictures. Great Illuminations pictures from the lounge. That is a great way to watch it!
I think you two had a room very close to ours at BWI. We had that same view, but I think we were a bit further down the hall. Ours was the next to the last room down that loooonng hallway.
We found the lounge to be fairly empty at night also, but not completely empty like you experienced. Probably good for me since I would have been tempted to carry the entire bottle of Baileys to my table.
Wendy - here's the wannabe doctor in me coming out. Have you ever asked your pharmacist about a Nedi pot or tried one? I saw it on Oprah (Dr Oz) and a friend of mine who suffers from sinus migraines tried one - it made a big difference. It's cheap and painless (a little wierd, maybe) and worked for her. Another thing that seemed to help was limiting her intake of dairy - who knows?
Anyway, I'll hang up my stethoscope and go back to reading TRs
Just getting caught up, here. Great updates! I can understand having a hard time leaving, but glad you've caught up with each other. Loved your view of Illuminations!
Just getting caught up with the actual trip! Sorry you were so emotional at both airports, but glad to see you immediately enjoying your company and surroundings. All your pictures are lovely, the lounge certainly does give a nice view of Illuminations. Looking forward to more.
I love the tag team reporting!! So much fun! And the Illuminations pictures are amazing. Chocolate covered strawberries, Baileys and Illuminations!! Sounds like a perfect evening to me.
Can't wait to read more.
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Great updates and photos! Interesting how they added the new phone 'booth.' I am so glad you put that photo in your update, Cheryl, because while the AED machines are marked on the maps, I've never actually seen one out in the open like that! Sounds like you had a nice dinner with friends, even if the food was just okay. Looking forward to more
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