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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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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06-25-2006, 09:56 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 12,270
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The Outer Banks - revisited... COMPLETE - July 5
A little pretrip info for you:
Cast of Characters: Me (almost 26) and Andy (25) (I think you know us by now)
DBIL Matt (27) and his fiancee Dawn (27)
In-laws Tommy (60) and Karen (59)
Matt and Andy's best friend Kevin (27), his wife Lori (?), and their baby Audrey (1)
Location: Avon, a town on Hatteras Island...Our house, the Sandpiper, the same house we stayed in 5 years ago.. Nothing had changed [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Okay so I just typed up ALL OF DAY ONE and it took me like an hour, and then I went to preview it, and I lost it for some reason, so now you get the short version of day one [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
Basically, we all caravaned (well, all of us but Tommy and Karen) out from Charlotte at 7 am Sunday morning. Tommy and Karen were coming from New Jersey (Karen's brother passed away last week, the same one we went to visit last summer if you remember my NY TR). The funeral was Friday, they drove half way Saturday, and met us there on Sunday.
We arrived around 2, checked in, got our house and unpacked. We realized around 3:30 that we were starvin like marvin, so the guys went and got us subs. Our meal schedule got all out of whack on this trip. After we ate Tommy and Karen arrived. We volunteered to go to the grocery store for them and Matt and Dawn came with us. We hit up the only grocery store on the island, the Food Lion.
Now since Saturday and Sunday are the turnover days the Food Lion had been picked clean by 5 o'clock. We finally found most of what we wanted, or something close enough, and some extra of course [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] When we got back to the house we all headed down to the beach.
Matt and Andy and Kevin braved the water first. Those waves are unreal and I can't keep my feet on the ground even when I'm holding on to Andy. So I decided to spare myself on our first night. Dawn eventually joined in with the guys, but she got knocked around, too [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
After our walk we went back to the house and had dinner. We enjoyed our favorite pasttime of feeding the seagulls off the deck. Those guys are crazy!! After that it was time to make sure the hot tub hadn't changed in 5 years [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] Now our house had a view of the ocean on the left side, the Pamlico Sound on the right side, and the Cape Hatteras lighthouse straight ahead. I SO loved just sitting in that hot tub, enjoying a drink, and watching that light go around.
After awhile we all got pooped out. Everyone went to bed, but I was too excited about being at the beach. I made Andy clean the kitchen with me and then we finally hit the sack around 11:30. Our first, loooong, day at the beach was over.
Andy, Lori, baby Audrey, and Kevin
Baby Audrey being all cute
Dawn fussing at Andy b/c he put ice in his beer b/c it wasn't cold yet [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
Lord help us, the gang's all here - From L to R - Kevin, Andy, Matt, Dawn, Karen, Tommy
The brave ones....look at Dawn's head up in the right corner [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
Me feeling artsy
The wonderful thing about this beach, it feels deserted...so peaceful
The view of the lighthouse from our deck. I had to zoom in all the way so it's a little blown out
Our favorite past time, feeding the birds... that's the Pamlico Sound at the bottom of the picture...
Look at how pretty the sky is..
 
Andy being all cute with Audrey...I really liked both of these so I couldn't choose...
Coming up: I'm not climbing up that thing..and hey, I can be a mama
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06-25-2006, 10:29 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Virginia - a day's drive to WDW
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
Awesome, Melissa! I haven't been in a few years but just love it there. All except for those biting flies (ouch) ... and I'm leaving for WDW the day after you and it crept up on me, too with everything else going on. Maybe I'll see you around the World.
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06-25-2006, 10:31 PM
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Go Red Sox!! :D
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Rhode Island - Red Sox Nation
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 27,451
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
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Our favorite past time, feeding the birds...
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Love your report & your pictures. This picture of Andy face up, mouth open under the seagulls cracked me up! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Who's feeding who? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] |
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06-25-2006, 10:40 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: second star to the right
Posts: 13,308
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
Ok - why is Kevin's finger in his belly button??? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
Can't wait to hear more! |
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06-25-2006, 10:49 PM
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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 One - Updated June 25
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Ok - why is Kevin's finger in his belly button??? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
Can't wait to hear more!
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b/c that's Kevin!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] He's possibly the crudest, silliest dude we know! |
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06-25-2006, 10:54 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Corona, New York
Posts: 3,436
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
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Our favorite past time, feeding the birds...
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Love your report & your pictures. This picture of Andy face up, mouth open under the seagulls cracked me up! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Who's feeding who? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
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<font color="purple"> I was thinking "Hope he doesn't get a slimy green surprise!"[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
Crystal, I didn't even notice the finger in the belly button![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] </font> |
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06-25-2006, 11:36 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 726
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
Great start! The beach looks beautiful, and Audrey is the cutest thing [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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06-26-2006, 12:18 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Posts: 10,721
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
Your photos are wonderful! Sounds like a fun group to have beach time with!
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06-26-2006, 01:00 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Colonia, NJ
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 2,517
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
I'm so glad I posted in this forum earlier b/c this was a great read! As you know from my other post, we'll be at Holden Beach in a few weeks and your report and pics are making me get so excited! Hope I get to read the rest before we leave!
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06-26-2006, 02:24 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
 PassPorter Guide Author
Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
Great start Melissa - I love your photos, especially the ones of the beach and the feeding of the birds! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] More please! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img]
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06-26-2006, 05:52 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
Great start Melissa [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img]
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06-26-2006, 06:09 AM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 22,002
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
[b]Great start and great photos!!!
More!!! Please????
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06-26-2006, 06:21 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Carolina
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 5,666
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
Great pictures, Melissa! I can't wait to read the next installment.
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06-26-2006, 06:51 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Posts: 13,817
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
Sounds like an awesome spot. Great pictures! More please!
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06-26-2006, 08:32 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: the Burbs outside of Philadelphia
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 12,093
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Re: The Outer Banks - revisited... Day One - Updated June 25
Great start Melissa, I can't wait to read more and see some more great pictures.
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