When it feels like your world is crumbling.... - Page 2 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Here's a lot of FAITH, TRUST, and PIXIE DUST!!!: pixie:
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Disney Trips:
July 1977 (off property) 1 day
October 1994 (off property) 4 days with family
October 2001 (CSR) 5 days with my DH and oldest DD and her cousin
Sept. 30th 2006-- POFQ 8 days with my DH and youngest DD
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Friend "S" was being released from the hospital today following her 2nd round of treatments. My understanding is that they decreased the dosage. She was able to handle this a bit better and take more treatments. We still are in limbo in terms of knowing how it's working. But her fight continues!
Friend "C" has been in an out of the hospital since her accident. In fact, she is back at the hospital today, which I believe is her 5th time. She was getting slightly better, only to relapse. In the last couple weeks she's relapsed so much it has effected her speech. She stutters and can't get words out. It's much like you would see with someone who suffered a stroke.
Friend "M" has not yet met with the surgeon to take care of her hernia and other issues. I think part of it is because we've all been somewhat occupied with worrying about "S" and "C" (who "M" is also friends with).
And then, the other night my husband & I were returning from a night out (completely on the house, we were VIPs due to a glowing Yelp review I left for this upscale movie theater/lounge/restaurant -- such a nice treat!) and as we came down the main road that goes through our community, we noticed flashing lights of fire trucks & emergency vehicles. A LOT of them. We tried to get as close to the scene as possible, and we got within enough distance that I could see it was the home of our friends "D & J".
My heart sank, and we went around the block another way to see if we could get to the house where my friend "M" lives (as you may have guessed, all these friends are also neighbors). We couldn't get close enough to her house either, so we had to park down a ways and walk over.
As we got closer, I noticed the son of "M" playing with one of the sons of "D & J", so I knew they must be all right. Then I spotted everyone else, all safe & sound. I don't think I've ever been more relieved.
It was a fire in their chimney -- apparently some sort of ceramic surround in the fireplace was cracked, and the fire was able to make it's way past the thin sheet metal and get in between that and the plywood. Luckily, they had noticed the smell of smoke about 20 minutes after they started the fire in their fireplace, and he grabbed the phone and went outside to check. That's when he saw smoke coming out of the soffits, etc and called 911.
Thankful they were all safe and that their house is still liveable. It was contained to just the chimney, and they have some smoke damage.
And then there's me .... still on the lookout for a job. Happy to have my health, and healthy family. Because unfortunately some of my friends can't say the same.... and that makes me sad.
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