A Coast to Coast Christmas - Phase One WDW - Page 9 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I, too, was going to point out the gingerbread photo! Not only for the bite taken out of it, but for the cute faces on each of the gingerbread men. Adorable!! As always, your time spent with the CLQ is highly entertaining.... keep it comin'!!!
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I can't wait to some day experience WDW at the holidays! I want to see all of the storytellers, the CP, the decorations... *swoon* For now, though, I'll have to see it through your eyes!
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I'm totally enjoying your Trip Report....sound like you had such a good time! I envy ALL of you. My trips to WDW (when possible) are usually in the Spring but after reading this report and seeing your pictures, I think a Christmas-time trip is in order soon. Thanks for cheering me up!
Oh I'm loving living vicariously through you. I so missed being at WDW during December this year--and now I've got a major dilemma. I'm cruising next December and will have 1 night at WDW I think, but my AP will have expired. I'm not sure about reloading for only one day.
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Oh I'm loving living vicariously through you. I so missed being at WDW during December this year--and now I've got a major dilemma. I'm cruising next December and will have 1 night at WDW I think, but my AP will have expired. I'm not sure about reloading for only one day.
Tricky... I think it will depend on what you may plan for 2013, yes?
Was this the morning we had the bus driver who was militant about not letting people sip their coffee on his bus -- he was Gannoying!
I forgot about that guy! Drink nazi!
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Please note that I did *NOT* take a bathroom break yet.... though it wasn't too much later when my coffee caught up to me.
So you admit you made us stop again not long after. Are you supposed to be helping your case?
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But Girlfriend was very kind about me pointing out all the flowers she could grow in her zone 7 garden with very little care needed.
This is one of the reasons I missed you at DL!
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Don't forget the stop at my favorite toity, which also resulted in a very funny picture from Karen.... (one that made my son guffaw when he saw it on Facebook later). When Karen surfaces again, she'll have to share it here.
Well, you were supposed to write about that in your TR. Why do I always fall for the "I'm going to write a TR" thing?
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Hey, who ate a piece of the gingerbread man? Was that you Sharon?
Certainly not! I think we've discussed my aversion to chocolate covered gingerbread. Besides, I wouldn't post the evidence for everyone to see if I had!
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Three wise men and a guy on a cell phone?!?!
A few minutes later, a Disney photographer showed up, so I suppose that might have been better.
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What's this new entrance procedure at Epcot?
As always - a perfectly timed great day!
You don't go through a turnstile. Instead, a CM puts an RFID sticker on your ticket, scans it over a reader (one of those touch type readers) and you enter.
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Oh I'm loving living vicariously through you. I so missed being at WDW during December this year--and now I've got a major dilemma. I'm cruising next December and will have 1 night at WDW I think, but my AP will have expired. I'm not sure about reloading for only one day.
It may depend on whether your night at WDW is post-cruise or pre-cruise. Don't ask me, I'm not going to tell you not to go in a park!
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