Reconstructing the Magic with Cam and Luke UPDATED: 12/23 Christmas Present and Our Final Day - Page 4 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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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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.
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Great start! Can't wait to hear your thoughts about CBR. We really enjoyed staying here last October. Dontcha just love driving under that Disney sign!!!
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Crazy the difference in the weather in just a short amount of time! Gotta love Florida So looking forward to reading this TR!
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Great start! I'm looking forward to reading your TR.
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Great start! Caribbean Beach Resort holds a special place in my heart as this was the resort mike and I stayed at on the vacation when he proposed to me
I am SO looking forward to reading this TR...I can't wait to hear more about the trip!
:thanks for following our adventures!
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Besides the rain it sounded like a pretty smooth arrival. Seeing those pictures of the room at CBR make me miss that resort.
We did have a very smooth travel day!
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Gotta love Florida weather. I have lived in FL a few times and found that the spells of showers and sunshine were almost predictable on a daily basis. Glad to see that you guys didn't have any real bad trouble getting to WDW. Your resort looks great and ballons in your room. Really great start to your trip. Can hardly wait to read the rest.
This was really the only day we had to deal with rain!
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Great start
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Off to a great start! I'm always nervous about Allegient Air
Yay a new TR from Cam!!!!! I look forward to these! Great start and can't wait for more of the fabulous trip - although I am a little biased on this one since I know I'm a part of it later on!
You and all the divas were a special part of this trip!
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Great start Cam! Sorry to hear about Photobucket - why can't they just leave things alone?
I had the same thought yesterday in the midst of trying to get the pictures the right size. I wasn't having problems before so why the need to change it.
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Never stayed at CB but king bed looks very comfortable, looking forward to following along.
Our king bed was very comfy!
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Signing on so I can come back and read - great start to the travel day and I love Luke's balloons! Such a pretty room
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Off to a great start Cam!
, Ladies!
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Are the towel animals in the windows suppose to be giraffes? I could not tell what they were, but they almost look like they were.
Loving the TR!!
The towel critters were elephants.
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Looking forward to hearing more about your trip. Florida weather is very similar to ours, just wait five or ten minutes, it will change. Your room looks great and love the birthday balloons.
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Can't wait to read more
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I am so glad you started, I can not wait to read more!
Hopefully, I can get another update loaded tomorrow.
How was Allegiant? We are considering them for Elijah's first trip in August 2013 since they are so much closer than Indy. I'm scared of all the nickel and dime-ing they seem to do.
I can't wait to hear all about your trip!
We liked Allegiant okay. The closeness to home made it quite convenient, but we didn't really save much money as we had to pay for our luggage and then we rented a car to get us from Sanford to WDW.
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Great start.
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Wow! I just started reading your other trip report, and here there is another! I am so far behind.............Great start~!
Thanks for following along!
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Great start! Can't wait to hear your thoughts about CBR. We really enjoyed staying here last October. Dontcha just love driving under that Disney sign!!!
We enjoyed our stay at CBR!
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So glad to see that you started your TR! Looking forward to hearing about all your adventures
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How did I miss the start of this one? Signing in now and will catch up on reading.
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Sorry to hear about Photobucket - why can't they just leave things alone? 
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