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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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01-05-2007, 02:34 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 10,481
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What are you??
I grew up in the city in Burlington, Vermont. Yes, it is a city...a small one but a city non-the-less. I am NOT however a city girl...I love dirt, tractors, farm animals and trucks. Weird huh? In college I even started listening to country music.
If I didn't look and act so much like my dad you would think I was from a different family. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
Now I live in Lansing, MI (city) yet I can drive a truck with a trailer, stack hay like a "farm girl" and I know what it is like to work in 10 below zero weather and have to feed 100 head of horses in 3 + feet of snow. I guess it helps that I have had jobs at 4 different horse farms and been around horses since the age of 10.
Are you country? City? Surburbian?
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01-05-2007, 02:43 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Michigan
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 5,998
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Re: What are you??
Right now I am suburbia, moving into city!
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01-05-2007, 02:46 PM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: What are you??
I would say I'm suburbian - I find London too much when we go up there and although I was a country girl when I grew up, I'm not any longer.
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01-05-2007, 02:51 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
Posts: 14,165
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Re: What are you??
I'm a Portland girl. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] I'd have a hard time moving out of city limits, but would move to a more rural area if it was still close and the property was awesome. I'm very much a sucker for convenience though---and where we are is very convenient! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img]
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01-05-2007, 02:52 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bethlehem,Ct 06751
Posts: 3,918
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Re: What are you??
Suburban, also.
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01-05-2007, 02:53 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 16,825
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Re: What are you??
I'm a sucker for Suburbia. We are close enough to NYC to get there whenever I want but have enough country that I never feel "crowded." As far as I am concerned, Connecticut has the best of both worlds! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]
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01-05-2007, 02:54 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Posts: 11,350
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Re: What are you??
I am like you a country girl down to my bones, I have milked cows (by hand), slopped the pigs, raked out horse stalls, my brothers helped bale the hay every year, my father tought us how to plant a garden and pull the weeds, and now where do I live, South Mississippi, 10 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico, in a nice quiet neighborhood, but every morning I can hear the roosters crow from the farm down the road....
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01-05-2007, 02:55 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
Posts: 13,884
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Re: What are you??
Definitely a rur-suburban. My mom used to say you could tell a city girl from a country girl on a windy day...a city girl grabs her hair and a country girl grabs her skirt! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
I used to be a total city girl before I moved here. Then I did the complete opposite, cloth diapering, line drying, garlic/herb growing, flower gardening, produce canning, etc. In my old age [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img], I've mellowed and found balance. Simple elegance (as opposed to opulence) with a splash of hippie chick makes me happy.
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01-05-2007, 03:04 PM
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Facebook Addict
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Philadelphia
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 39,682
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Re: What are you??
I'd have to say I'm a city-boy.
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01-05-2007, 03:10 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Posts: 4,751
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Re: What are you??
Philadelphia girl all of my life and since my DH is a police officer here and we have to live within city limits I don't see that ever changing!!
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01-05-2007, 03:13 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: northern Virginia
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 14,821
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Re: What are you??
I may live in "suburbia" , but down in my bones, I'm a country girl at heart, most at home in jeans and untucked shirt, digging in the garden and driving my truck (see previous post)
Unfortunatly, have to live where the jobs are...retirement will definitely put things "right!" Crowds and traffic and 4 lane roads drive me crazy!
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01-05-2007, 03:17 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Arlington, TN
Posts: 2,509
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Re: What are you??
Right now I reckon we are in suburbia...in a town outside a city. It is nice and quite here but growing fast. I do like having the city stuff a short drive away.
Our dream (DH and I) is to move to the mountains and have a house and maybe a few animals and a garden, etc. Lots of land. Our parents grew up on farms so I guess we long for that type of life, simple. Having grown up in Memphis....a change would be nice. We would already be in the mountains now except that DH is a computer graphics guy - not much call for that where we want to go.
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01-05-2007, 03:36 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Maine
Posts: 1,406
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Re: What are you??
Well, Im not sure....I do live in what others like to refer to as the boonies(population 150 in the winter 195 in the summer), Ive never milked a cow. I do know which end to milk, but would not have the heart to make the milk come out...looks a little painful to me. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
I guess I would have to say country just because Ive never lived in a city...We went to Portland last week, just so I could go to the Mall there(ok, actually I just wanted to go to the Disney Store, since that is the closest one to me), and I just about went nuts. It seems like the streets are all mixed up together. I just like the quiet better, I guess.
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01-05-2007, 03:44 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: What are you??
I grew up in the country and always wanted to live in a city. Tried it out, didn't like it, moved back home [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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01-05-2007, 03:56 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 10,481
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Re: What are you??
You know it is funny growing up I always wanted to live in the country. When I got the chance to work as a farm/kennel caretaker I jumped the chance. It isn't as "easy" as you would think. I had to get up every morning at 6 to feed 5 horses, clean the kennel, feed all the dogs and drive 30 minutes to my "real" job. Sadly the family moved so I had to move back to the city. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/pout.gif[/img] I even had a horse and I didn't have to pay for board for feed! So this "country" girl is living in the city again.
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