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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.
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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.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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Wow, I feel like I just finished your last TR, and here comes another!! And I so enjoy them!! Great start and so looking forward to more..btw, awesome view from the balcony!!
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Just realized you had another TR in the works. First, I'm really bummed that you don't have a trip planned for this Thanksgiving. If you did, then it would have been great to finally meet you in person. Oh well, there's always another time. I also think it's rude for someone to try to start a conversation when your listening to your ipod, or reading a book. They just don't get the hint do they? Thank goodness that seat filled up next to you.
And now I have a confession to make....I also was in Disney the 13-17 and one early afternoon I was heading into DHS with my best friend and who walks right past me but YOU! I have read so many of your TR that I was star struck! ( I swear I am not a crazy person, although this story is kinda making it out that way huh?) Anyways, I turned back around in total shock and you had disappeared into the crowd. I must have been standing there for a minute or so because my friend had to come back to find me and ask me 'What are you doing!?'( It was her first time in DHS and she was determined to ride the TOT) Not wanting to explain the situation with her because she already thinks I'm a Disney freak , I made up some excuse and we moved along. But the whole way down Sunset Blvd I was thinking about how if I saw you again I was most definitely say hello and introduce myself that time! But it was not meant to be on this trip so I just wanted to say !
Yay! Another PrincessSharon TR! I, for one, am glad that you travel down there so frequently. It makes for rather entertaining reading for those of us who can't get away quite so often.
Glad to hear your dad is doing well! I'm sure your mom was sad leaving you at the airport when she was *supposed* to be going with you! I know I get a little depressed when my parents leave me behind & go.
I love that you meet interesting characters wherever you go! He was extra-special, though, because he didn't even get the headphone sign.
Yay, another TR!! I'm paying even more attention to this one because we're heading to F&WF next year and I want to gather all the intel I possibly can.
Sorry about random weird dude at the airport, but glad he didn't end up next to you on the plane.
Love the title, but I have to say thanks for the "ear worm" .....and always let your stomach be your guide...give a little whistle!
Take the straight and narrow path, and if you start to slide...give a little whistle...
There!!
Now I've given it to you, too!
Love the title, but I have to say thanks for the "ear worm" .....and always let your stomach be your guide...give a little whistle!
Take the straight and narrow path, and if you start to slide...give a little whistle...
There!!
Now I've given it to you, too!
I'm really going to have this song stuck in my head now as it's also playing on my ipod right now.
Great start Sharon! I'm beginning to think Jill goes to WDW just as much as you do.
Another Princess Sharon TR to brighten up this bland week. I am not a "weirdo" magnet, but the other kind of magnet (think body part you sit on). Yes, if they are anywhere in a 5 mile radius I will find them.
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Glad he wasn't headed to WDW because that would've been a problem.
And I so enjoy them!! 
Great start and so looking forward to more..btw, awesome view from the balcony!!
on the View!! Waiting impatiently on some more!!! Love me some P-Sha TR
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First, I'm really bummed that you don't have a trip planned for this Thanksgiving. If you did, then it would have been great to finally meet you in person. Oh well, there's always another time. I also think it's rude for someone to try to start a conversation when your listening to your ipod, or reading a book. They just don't get the hint do they? Thank goodness that seat filled up next to you. 
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Can't wait to read more!! 
He was extra-special, though, because he didn't even get the headphone sign.
view from your room!!
friend named Jackie? Or perhaps something starting with a T? 
for the "ear worm" .....and always let your stomach be your guide...give a little whistle!
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