Dreams do come true **Updated 7/24** THREAD 2 *COMPLETE* - Page 5 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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Firstly, I loved your Pompeii photos. Matt delighted in telling me all about the brothel - they didn't dress it up as an 'ice cream parlour' to the fifteen year old boys on his trip
Second, I was very impressed with the Disney service in offering you a refund. We cruised with P&O across the Atlantic. We had booked a tour to see a lagoon in the Azores, but the weather was so rainy we were just driven in a coach around the island for an hour and saw absolutely nothing. They wouldn't reimburse us a penny and I haven't cruised with them since.
Olbia looks lovely. Shame you didn't see Peter Gabriel - or, as he was known in Kitchen Kaberet, Pita Gabriel.
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Good to hear you received a refund of part of your tour.
Isn't it fun to recieve one of those magical memory certificates? They seem to come when you aren't execting it.
Beautiful photos, Cheryl! Which one is Peter Gabriel's home? Did you take one? (I can't believe I just asked that question! I'm sure you did, with over 5,000 photos taken in total! Which one is it? I guess that's a better question! )
Beautiful photos, Cheryl! Which one is Peter Gabriel's home? Did you take one? (I can't believe I just asked that question! I'm sure you did, with over 5,000 photos taken in total! Which one is it? I guess that's a better question! )
I didn't get a shot of it - all we really saw were the gates and it was on the other side of the bus, so I stood no chance of getting a photo. :
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Wednesday 30 May – part two: a far more peaceful boat ride
We rounded one bend and stopped to look over towards La Maddalena and wow, what a view! It was pretty cold there, but the view was worth standing out in the wind freezing.
The snow capped mountains in the back of this photo is the island of Corsica
A few minutes later, we were at Palau, where we would be catching the boat over to La Maddalena. This was a ferry and nothing like yesterday. It was exceptionally smooth. We didn’t even realise that we were moving when we first set off. We got off the bus and had a walk around and the views were wonderful, very peaceful. It really reminded me of cruising in the fjords around Oslo in Norway, it was just so quiet and beautiful.
Wednesday 30 May – part three: a photo tour of La Maddalena
Twenty minutes later, we landed on La Maddalena and then took an hour long drive around the island. This really is a beautiful place and again they were very good at giving us opportunities to stop and get off the bus to take photos. So here’s a photo tour of La Maddalena:
Our guide Maddalena La Maddalena is home to a lot of military – both Italian and American
Next: sampling a Sardinian speciality
By the way, I don't know when the next update will be - it could be as far away as Sunday, it could be sooner, I've got a couple of mad days, so bear with me!
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It was pretty cold there, but the view was worth standing out in the wind freezing. 
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