An Island Frame of Mind (A Cam and Luke PTR) Updated 5/22 - Page 35 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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What a lovely Easter celebration and glad you finally got the weather you deserve for it.
Standing is the worst. Last trip we decided to catch a boat from Epcot to the boardwalk and while waiting for it decided in the future unless it's already there, were better off walking.
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What a beautiful family! sounds like a lovely day all around!
The dogwood is beautiful -- my favorite blooming tree! We are actually talking about putting one in our back yard as the pin oak has to come down.
The dogwood tree is just beautiful!! What a beautiful family you have! Those children are precious....I am sorry Andrea does not look old enough for grandchildren!!
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Fun time with the family! I love the dogwood tree, that's just beautiful.
Dogwoods have always been one of my favorite trees. Where my dad's house was there was a wooded area that separate his street from a subdivision behind it. the woods are full of wild dogwood trees. Just beautiful this time of year.
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What a gorgeous dogwood tree and how fun to spend the weekend with family!!. Your family is beautiful and that little baby is so sweet!!
You'll get packed just fine.. You're a pro!
My nieces first two kids were very big babies. Elijah is much more petite than they, but after holding him for about 45 minutes, he still gets heavy.
I think I've packed so many times now that that is why I never feel panicked even if I wait until right before we go.
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We have a softwood, was here when we bought our house. We just love it
We planted two dogwoods at our first house, one red and one white. They were two of the things from there I truly wished I could bring to this house with us.
What a lovely Easter celebration and glad you finally got the weather you deserve for it.
Standing is the worst. Last trip we decided to catch a boat from Epcot to the boardwalk and while waiting for it decided in the future unless it's already there, were better off walking.
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You all sound just like us as we'd rather walk at WDW than stand and wait.
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After such a harsh winter, seeing trees with beautiful flowers is awesome. What great family fun. A precious baby boy.
Elijah is great grand baby #16 for my DMiL and she is silly proud of all of them.
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What a beautiful family! sounds like a lovely day all around!
The dogwood is beautiful -- my favorite blooming tree! We are actually talking about putting one in our back yard as the pin oak has to come down.
Our little dogwood seems to be taking off quite well, but they typically like to grow in the shade of another tree.
What a wonderful time with family. A new little life for springtime!
Elijah is a springtime joy. They had a bit of a scare at first as he had spells with a very rapid heart rate. But it seems like that is correcting itself.
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The dogwood tree is just beautiful!! What a beautiful family you have! Those children are precious....I am sorry Andrea does not look old enough for grandchildren!!
Andrea is only 45 (she'll be 46 in July), but she had Brittany when she was 18, so the generations are a bit close together.
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Your dogwood tree is beautiful! What a nice time with family! Luke's sister looks way too young to have three grandchildren!
I've joked with Andrea that when I think of her as a grandmother, I typically giggle. Doesn't seem possible.
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