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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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05-21-2005, 02:19 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 26,975
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Re: Best home town restaurant
McGuire's Irish Pub here in Pensacola (or over in Destin, FL as well)!!!
The walls are wallpapered with Irishman signed dollar bills (last count was just over $250,000!!!)
For an appetizer, I like the Irish Potato skins or the boxtys.
The Corned beef and cabbage and the Irish Steak and Mushroom Pie are both very good! They also have 20 different burgers on the menu (some are VERY good, some are VERY spicy, some have very ODD ingredients . . . there's even one that has chocolate in and on it!!! )
When it comes to drinks . . . I stick with diet coke, but DH has tried the McGuire's Irish Red Ale, the Raspberry Wheat and the Stout . . . he said all were tasty and the Raspberry Wheat was "good, but different")
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05-21-2005, 02:22 PM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
Posts: 42,304
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Re: Best home town restaurant
Ken Stewert's and get the steaks, they are the best!!
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05-21-2005, 03:54 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Davidsonville, MD
Posts: 6,563
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Re: Best home town restaurant
We are large in size, but small in goods and services. We have one restaraunt, Killarney House, and it's an Irish Pub/Restaraunt.
Now in Annapolis, all things touristy are there, but we rarely eat downtown because it is so pricey, crowded and the food just isn't as good as WDW!
However, we do eat at the Double T Diner quite frequently, because they have, hands down, the best crab cakes and crab imperial we have ever eaten. We are both born and raised in Maryland on crab, and it is our most favorite. It's not a fancy place, but their dinners are awesome.
For touristy meals, I do like the Chart House and Ruth Chris' Steakhouse for beef. But ooheee it's expensive. For our anniversary, we went to Ruth's, and without any alcoholic beverages, dinner was $150 for the both of us.
PS, I am trying Palo on the Wonder next month for the first time!
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05-21-2005, 05:30 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: Best home town restaurant
In town - Goody's Restaraunt, I recommend the dolmathes (Greek), or the Tostada (Mexican). They are Greek, and their daughters have married: a hispanic, a black man, and a Chinese man. Lots of different food and it's cheap.
In Indy - Loon Lake Lodge. Kind of Le Cellier and Rainforest Cafe combined (think deep woods Canada)
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05-21-2005, 05:50 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
Posts: 5,641
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Re: Best home town restaurant
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McGuire's Irish Pub here in Pensacola (or over in Destin, FL as well)!!!
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Sarah, we've been to the one in Destin. You didn't mention the entertainment factor that's there as well!
Ever kiss the moose???
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05-21-2005, 07:48 PM
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Club Ichthyologist
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Merrimack, NH
Concierge Level: 5
Posts: 2,566
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Re: Best home town restaurant
Common Man is the best. Everything is fresh and cooked to perfection. You can't get in on the weekends without at least a 2-3 hour wait ....that's why I love call ahead seating
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05-21-2005, 09:51 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Best home town restaurant
We live in a small village with 1 locally owned pizza place, a diner, and a fairly new restaurant called Maw's Place, which we haven't tried yet, although I've heard a lot of good comments about it, so I think I would recommend the new place.
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05-21-2005, 10:09 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Bluffton, IN
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 2,431
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Re: Best home town restaurant
Sit down - El Camino Real - authentic Mexican food huge, tasty portions for very little money.
Counter (actually drive-in) - Bummie's - its an old B&K rootbeer stand with the best rootbeer and corndogs.
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05-21-2005, 10:12 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: Best home town restaurant
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Common Man is the best. Everything is fresh and cooked to perfection. You can't get in on the weekends without at least a 2-3 hour wait ....that's why I love call ahead seating
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Jenny - I LOVE the Common Man!! I've never been to the Merrimack one - but the original in Ashland is awesome!!! Do they still have the chunks of white chocolate in Merrimack??
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05-22-2005, 05:40 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 23,859
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Re: Best home town restaurant
We'd go to The Townhouse Restaurant in Media.
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05-22-2005, 03:56 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,547
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Re: Best home town restaurant
Definitely Mezcal's in Bay Ridge. It's an authentic Mexican restaurant with the best food EVER! You have to get the sizzling shrimp fajitas or the chicken and beef chimichangas... mmm! Or, of course, Ellen's Stardust Diner, my fav restauarant! Definitely get the Rueben!
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05-22-2005, 06:25 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 15,346
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Re: Best home town restaurant
Hmm...there are two places with an equal 5 star rating in my mind. Both are in my former hometown, Stroudsburg, as we've just moved. Both are local haunts. Flood's Irish Pub and Ned's on 9th.
At Flood's, you gotta have their award winning hot-wings and roasted garlic appetizer with a pint of Guiness.
At Ned's, there are some absolute musts! Fried, fresh calamari, grilled cashews, Duchess potatoes, roast beef hoagie with swiss cheese and au jus, kelly fries, a pint of a local micro, and chocolate nemesis cake. Oh, and it's the place to be on St. Patty's day for corned beef, cabbage, taters, green beer, and Guiness Beef Stew.
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05-22-2005, 08:06 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posts: 2,858
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Re: Best home town restaurant
We live in such a foodie area that I don't think I could pick just 1. We are within walking distance of 20-30 restaurants (The area of Berkeley we live in is called the Gourmet Ghetto). Sticking with the neighborhood, I'd have to say Fontina for calamari (we've got 6:00 reservations tonight!!) Barney's for the best burgers, the Cheeseboard for pizza and Chez Panisse, downstairs, for an amazing, ignore the budget, prix fix dinner. For Chinese or Mexican I'd have to drive 5 minutes.
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