Going north, south, east and west - UPDATED 12/18 - Page 26 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Great update!! Sorry about your computer problems - hope everything starts working soon. Room service sounds like a pretty good way to end the day to me!! And your food looked pretty yummy!!
Can't wait for more!
I just read your entire TR to date. I love your TR's because the pictures are always so great and it makes you feel as if you are right there along on the trip. Sorry to hear about your computer. Hope you are able to get it fixed soon, so we can get another great installment of this TR.
I'm back online, thanks to a new computer. The other one that's died is under warranty, but we thought we'd buy a cheap replacement, as we suspect it's going to take some time to get the other one back up and running - it won't re-install Windows and seems to be very unwell and the prospect of a couple of weeks off didn't inspire us, so we now have a back-up to our main one, when that's hopefully back online.
That's the good news... the bad news is that, at the moment, there won't be any trip report updates. As we don't know what caused the other computer to die, I want to get our memory sticks etc. checked to see if there's any virus on them, as we can't afford for this one to be infected. Until I can work out how to do that (any ideas, please let me know!), then I'm not going to risk loading those files into this machine, so please bear with us for a while, as we try and sort these problems out.
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I would just suggest taking your memory cards to a photo or computer specialty store and see if they will check them for a reasonable fee. Either of those should have the equipment to check if the card is infected or defective, I would think. I just googled "defective memory card help" and got some possible problems, you might try a more specific search.
Anyway, good to hear from you, and for your computer woes!
Sorry about your computer problems but glad to hear you bought a backup laptop!
Loved your pics, especially of the MetLife pavilion. I too wish that they would do something else with the building.
Your room service dinner looked delicious. Great idea.
Hope you're able to get the virus check done quickly. Can't wait for more.
Isn't it amazing how dependent we have become on our computers. I'd be lost without mine.
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Mari here. I'm really enjoying your trip reports. But I must say that I am REALLY looking forward to your report regarding DCA. hhehehehehehehe!
But seriously, we'll be going to NY for my nephew's wedding in June and you have given us some great ideas for a 24hr whirlwind tour of the city before heading out to 'the Hampton's' for the wedding.
Good luck with your computer! Just a couple of suggestions for the old one....Come back soon! We had a blast with the two of you!
I'm sorry about your computer, I hope it's up and running soon!! I actually finally caught up from the beginning of your TR!! It is AWESOME!! so you can post again soon!
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The other one that's died is under warranty, but we thought we'd buy a cheap replacement, as we suspect it's going to take some time to get the other one back up and running - it won't re-install Windows and seems to be very unwell and the prospect of a couple of weeks off didn't inspire us, so we now have a back-up to our main one, when that's hopefully back online. 
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hhehehehehehehe! 
Just a couple of suggestions for the old one....Come back soon! We had a blast with the two of you!
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