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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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No, finances don't allow us to take one every year . We were lucky the last few years we could but this year there's no vacation for us - not even day trips anywhere right now.
We plan at least one big vacation a year and it usually involves travel. My limit in the car is about 10 hours, so if it takes longer than that we fly.
Yes. We travel every year -- we try to get to DH's parents' since they can't travel here. Though I question whether that's "vacation" when it's not really optional.
We also try to go somewhere else, whether it's just us or converting one of DH's business trips into a vacation. There's so much to be learned from travel that I hate not to go when and where we can.
And yes, they include travel. To me, it's not a vacation if I have to do laundry or use my own kitchen. Unless a hotel room is involved, it doesn't count.
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Every year at least one 'big' trip overseas (almost everywhere is overseas when you live on an island-lol). A disney park is always on my list but mostly every second year we go elsewhere.
We also take a 'relaxing' trip somewhere each January. Bali is very close (just 3hrs by air) so we go there often. When we lived on the other side of Australia we would go to Vanuatu, Noumea or Fiji.
Vacation time is the only time my DH actually takes a break. He does his best to 'forget' about work even though he checks in every day. Twice a year is not really enough down time but I'll take what I can get.
When the kids were home, we did two or more vacations a year. One was a big new adventure and the other might be a week at the beach or a short trip to Florida.
Since my kids have grown and spread their wings and I have a son 1800 miles away, my vacations are often to see him (last three were to Texas.) When my DD rode for her university, I would often take a vacation to where Nationals were seeing as they made it 3 of her 4 years. She also did a pre season camp in Florida so 3 of 4 years we were able to combine it with a trip to Disney.
We do something yearly, but sometimes it is just a weekend getaway or even a "staycation" where we take in local attractions. Our first big trip since having more than one chid was our 2009 WDW trip. We are hoping to be on the every two years WDW rotation with something smaller and close to home the other years.
We take several trips every year. All involve some amount of travel. We love hiking and the great outdoors. We have a 5th Wheel which makes camping pretty comfortable. We try to visit Death Valley each spring for a week. We go to Mammoth Lakes and/or Yosemite once or twice a year for a week. We live fairly close to both the mountains and the beach, so we often take local weekend camping trips in those locations.
For the past few years we've taken a late Fall cross-country RV trip, staying at National Parks from California to Maine, Washington State to North Carolina.
Our son lives in New York City and has a great home in Connecticut so we vist him twice a year. We also do some weekend get-a-ways in San Diego and San Francisco. But for the most part we like to camp because we can take our dogs. I really hate to board them.
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. We were lucky the last few years we could but this year there's no vacation for us - not even day trips anywhere right now.
We plan at least one big vacation a year and it usually involves travel. My limit in the car is about 10 hours, so if it takes longer than that we fly.
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