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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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06-29-2006, 09:20 PM
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#106
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Wishing I was at WDW
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Five - Updated June 29
Great bathing suit!
I love your photos!!
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06-30-2006, 06:02 AM
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#107
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Five - Updated June 29
Great pictures Melissa [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img]
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06-30-2006, 11:39 AM
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#108
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Facebook Addict
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Location: Philadelphia
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Five - Updated June 29
Sounds like a fun day, besides the loudmouth, drunken Philadelphians. We all don't act like that. Honest. Really.
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06-30-2006, 11:40 AM
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#109
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 12,270
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Five - Updated June 29
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] I'm pretty sure it's only the 17 - 19 year olds from Philly that act like that!! Oh I forgot to talk about how they kept talking how they'd done time and the one guy (with the magnum of Corona) was looking at serious time and how they knew guys in prison.... [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] They were total catches!
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06-30-2006, 02:53 PM
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#110
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Six - Updated June 30
Day Six - Friday, June 23 - Thanks to you two I have to have a fear!
Today Tommy and Karen offered to go with us to Kitty Hawk to visit the Wright Brother's Memorial and then to take us out to lunch. We of course agreed! Who can turn down a free meal??? Lori and a terrible migraine this morning so she and Kevin and the baby stayed at the house and rested.
We got a jump on T & K, mainly b/c we didn't want to be stuck behind the older folk for the hour long drive. We arrived a few minutes before they did and Matt had to make a restroom trip quick. So he and Dawn went to locate those while Andy and I toured through the Museum area. I already made it clear that "hey it's cool I can see that monument from here, and since I can see it from here, there's no way I'm walking all the way up that hill in the blistering heat to see it up close...[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shameonyou.gif[/img]" Luckily everyone else agreed.
Here are some pictures from this part of the museum. It was broken up into two different buildings:
A reproduction of the 1902 glider..
Some information on said glider..
is he trying to be cool??
We're lined up like a bad Cingular commercial [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]
The monument.... From a distance of course!
The first large boulder is where the brothers took off from....each little boulder after that (there are 4) mark how far each flight went. The first two only lasted 12 seconds, I can't remember the 3rd, and the 4th, the furtherest, went for 59 seconds.
The rail on the ground is what they used to push the glider on to get it going.
After walking around on the grounds we went to the other museum building. It was here that my husband lost his mind [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
He's going to work on these photos in photoshop to get rid of the red parts of his shirt that you can see to make these even funnier [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
As if this one wasn't silly enough..........
He moved on to the smaller one [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
After some more learning we headed out to get some lunch. We went the Outer Banks Brewing Company. Fantastic food! We shared the calamari appetizer and I swear, it was the most tender calamari I have ever had! Delicious! I had the crab cake sandwich (but just ate the crab cake... I didn't want to mask the taste with all the bread, lettuce, and tomato [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img]) It was a wonderful crab cake....lots of lump meat, not just stuffing...[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/yuma.gif[/img] I was determined to eat every last bite...and I did [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] This was a really neat place b/c they had a really cool stage set up on the lower level. Dh got a kick out of that and we read the upcoming shows they had listed. The upper level overlooked the floor and the stage on the lower level. I told Andy he needed to plan like a 2 week tour up and down the outer banks, I would totally be up for that!
After our lunch we wanted to go back to Rundown so Andy and his dad could get a shirt. Of course while we were there we had to have a drink....another shark attack please!
back at the rundown...up on the deck
Continued in next post
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06-30-2006, 03:07 PM
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#112
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 35,829
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Six - Updated June 30
Another great update. Very nice pix too. Keep 'em coming
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06-30-2006, 03:09 PM
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#113
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Six - Updated June 30
Great update Melissa [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] Glad you had fun at the museum and the lighthouse! Great pictures too [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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06-30-2006, 03:30 PM
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#114
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 3,958
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Six - Updated June 30
Oh, man, that second pic of Andy at the WB museum! It already looks like he has a big head. When he photoshops out all the red, he will look like a big ol' bobblehead! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Funny stuff!
I need to make it to OBX. Closest I've come in my 41 years is Cape Lookout.
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06-30-2006, 03:36 PM
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#115
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 12,270
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Six - Updated June 30
Ok, Andy's site is having difficulties and that's where I upload my pictures....so if they're not showing up please check back! I'll post when they're back
Ok just kidding...it's back [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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06-30-2006, 03:50 PM
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#116
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 726
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Six - Updated June 30
Great update
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06-30-2006, 05:18 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: second star to the right
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Six - Updated June 30
Nice bird pictures [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Can't wait to hear more.
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06-30-2006, 05:33 PM
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#118
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Five - Updated June 29
Great update Melissa!!! And hte Low Country Boil sounded Yumo!!!
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06-30-2006, 06:00 PM
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#119
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Mahopac, NY
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Five - Updated June 29
great update as usual!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep it coming!
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07-01-2006, 01:52 AM
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#120
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
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Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day Five - Updated June 29
I'm loving this report - you're visiting so many fasincating places and I love the lighthouses, they're always the first thing I think of when I think of the coastline. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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