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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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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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just back had a great trip more to come need to go to bed time change stinks here on the east coast
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just back had a great trip more to come need to go to bed time change stinks here on the east coast
TIME TO START THAT 17 DAY TRIP REPORT ITS VERY LONG SO I DO IT IN SECTIONS. we left longisland 7/23 at 11;50 ON SOUTHWEST ARRIVED IN LAS VEGAS AT210 PM GOT OUR rental car a converable from alamo nice car.drove down the vegas strip. then ck into excalibur for 2nites nice motel only bad thing pool closes at 7pm. had dinner,gambled a little lost about $ 50. THen went to sleep got up reel early on fri for grancanyon south rim bus tour.picked us up at 6am witha small bus went to about 6 motels then to their depot then loaded treir coach buses got a box with muffin apple or orange and oj. stopped at the hooverdam about 15min ,took pichures son got a shirt. then bac on the road stooped at a mcdonalds for a snack on the way and on the way back. stopped at a motel for a hot buffet lunch that was included.the chicken was verry good.then to the grancanyon. it rained for about 15mins before the canyon at angels point it was hazy at 1st then it clear up what a splened site of the canyon, then we went to another pointe and that was also great. thjenloaded the buses for the ride back. stopped at a gift shop.dw took picture of the flintstones camp grounds very cute. then dinner at mcds ten to hooverdam switch drivers out of driving time for driver. also watch nice movies, back to motel about 16hrs very long day but well worth it. more to follow. thanks ron
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BWV- 2005 Steven's 6th Birthday\DVC Member since 2003-BCV 2005 SSR\POLY,BWV,SSR,VWL,DCL,AND BCV-2007\ BWV & Cabins-2008\ Disneyland 2009\ Disneyland & Disneyworld- 2010 wdw. universal.vero beachand disney dream aug 2011. wdw 15yr anny june/july 2012
Slightly off topic, but glad to see we are not the only ones who do day trips to Grand Canyon. Difference is we drove ourselves - 8 in a Suburban - and came at it from Phoenix.
We're headed to DLR at the start of Sept. - but we are flying all the way. No more "long haul" drives for us this summer!!!!
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Slightly off topic, but glad to see we are not the only ones who do day trips to Grand Canyon. Difference is we drove ourselves - 8 in a Suburban - and came at it from Phoenix.
We're headed to DLR at the start of Sept. - but we are flying all the way. No more "long haul" drives for us this summer!!!!
Can't wait to hear the latest about DLR.
Add us to the list!
We drove from an absolutely gorgeous hotel in Scottsdale.
TIME TO START THAT 17 DAY TRIP REPORT ITS VERY LONG SO I DO IT IN SECTIONS. we left longisland 7/23 at 11;50 ON SOUTHWEST ARRIVED IN LAS VEGAS AT210 PM GOT OUR rental car a converable from alamo nice car.drove down the vegas strip. then ck into excalibur for 2nites nice motel only bad thing pool closes at 7pm. had dinner,gambled a little lost about $ 50. THen went to sleep got up reel early on fri for grancanyon south rim bus tour.picked us up at 6am witha small bus went to about 6 motels then to their depot then loaded treir coach buses got a box with muffin apple or orange and oj. stopped at the hooverdam about 15min ,took pichures son got a shirt. then bac on the road stooped at a mcdonalds for a snack on the way and on the way back. stopped at a motel for a hot buffet lunch that was included.the chicken was verry good.then to the grancanyon. it rained for about 15mins before the canyon at angels point it was hazy at 1st then it clear up what a splened site of the canyon, then we went to another pointe and that was also great. thjenloaded the buses for the ride back. stopped at a gift shop.dw took picture of the flintstones camp grounds very cute. then dinner at mcds ten to hooverdam switch drivers out of driving time for driver. also watch nice movies, back to motel about 16hrs very long day but well worth it. more to follow. thanks ron
Sounds like a long day, but it sounds like you had a great time!
What kind of convertible did you have?
Were you lucky at gambling?
One trip to DL, I found a PT Cruiser convertible for $100 for the week! I snatched it right up!! But it is so very driving around CA with a convertible! I loved it!
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sat we left vegas and drove to dl walked around downtown disney for a little bit. then we drove up to pasedena. cked into super8. 1 of the worst super8s we stayed at. but had agood time in the area. sat nite went to toyotairwindale speedway a nice track. sun went to universal on mon also alot of fun . tues rode around hollywood area alot to see had fun. wed went to warnerbros did the tour verynice. thenoff to dlcked into dlh for 8nites.more to come
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as we continue cked into dlh magic tower on wed 7/29 for 8nites had dinner at goofys went swimming for about 15min. way to cold with the wind. got up early on thurs did dl for about 8hrs did alot of rides fri went to cal/adv had alot of fun stayed all day open to closed. sat was a easy day went to the beach. came back switch our park passes from 6 days to aps for $195 dollars for 2 a and 1ch went to dl till the fireworks were over. sun went to ca/ad for half of the day. then swimming mon went to dl tues dl wed ca/ad trurs dl. we ate at goofys storytellers, goofys 2times hooks pointe, espn, rainforest,minnies breakfast, carnations had hag/daz ice cream every nite after the parks. ate at joes crab shack bubba gumps at universal and had counter serve at ca/ad . overall it was very nice. comparing wdw and dl is almost inpossible as there both very nice in there own way!!!!!!!!!! SO WE ARE GOING NEXT SUMMER FOR 2DAYS AT WDW THEN 5 NITE DOUBLE DIP CASAWAY CAY CRUISE THEN BACK TO DL FOR AWEEK. SO YES WELOVED DL. WE left dl on thurs nite drove back tolasvegas stayed at b uffalo bills. not nice motel ran down. fri flew to see family in va. sun flew home. to longisland. over all a very nice and excellent trip. the hardest part is getting used to the time change when you get home.at dl it was great getting up early. thanks for all the tips before we got to dl. ALMOST FORGOT AT THE AIRPORT IN VEGAS WON ABOUT 300 WHEN OUR PLANE WAS DELAYED AN HR. THANKS RON
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Difference is we drove ourselves - 8 in a Suburban - and came at it from Phoenix. 
driving around CA with a convertible! I loved it!
Hope you had a blast!
Love being Goofy on Space Mountain!! LOL 
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