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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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04-04-2004, 04:26 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 4,148
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First Aid & Health tips for touring WDW
I'd like to start a thread with ideas for those "must have" items. I'll start:
Moleskin/Molefoam and small scissors
Solarcaine gel
Band-Aid Blister Pads
Last edited by Eeyore Tattoo; 08-04-2008 at 12:35 AM..
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04-04-2004, 04:43 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 1,742
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
Motrin, adult and children's
sunblock
band aids
antiseptic foam
handwipes
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04-04-2004, 06:17 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
Claritin for those pesky Florida plants
Imodium - just in case!
Feminine protection items - poor Amanda got her 1st one at WDW!
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04-04-2004, 08:33 PM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 4,169
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
well..I guess I would bring:
- Motrin [heat=headaches]
- Feminine hygiene products [of course I got mine the first day of our trip and was not prepared!]
- Solarcaine [I burn really bad!]
- Polysporin [I always end up getting hurt or bitten by bugs!]
Kristin
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04-05-2004, 11:43 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2,066
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
Great suggestions you guys. I always stick a card in ours with all of Teddys meds and doses and all his allergies(he has TONS of med allergies). I figure it is a pretty small chance that anything would occur where I wouldn't be able to speak for him but you never know.
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04-07-2004, 04:24 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Niagara Falls
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 12,431
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
Why just Flordia? These are in my purse every day! LOL
Advil/Tylenol/Motrin
Pepcid AC
Immodium
Lactaid
Sudafed little red tabs
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04-11-2004, 09:18 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2,929
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
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Why just Flordia? These are in my purse every day! LOL
Advil/Tylenol/Motrin
Pepcid AC
Immodium
Lactaid
Sudafed little red tabs
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You sound like me. My co workers call me the walking pharmacy! I like to be prepared! |
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04-13-2004, 09:24 PM
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Community Rank: Passenger 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 49
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
Well, I would add to your list the following: pepto,chapstick,antibacterial cream,tylonol(adult and children's strength and a muscle anti-ache cream.
beachandteach
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04-19-2004, 03:43 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Virginia
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 5,425
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
Must have Bonine (meclazin) chewable anti-nausea tablets. One each morning helps prevent unpleasant results from rides. We also carry a spray version of Bactine--no sting, good all-purpose scrape and burn remedy. An ice bag and a heating pad have also come in handy for us. We'll have the new no-water painkiller with us next time too as well as chewable baby aspirin.
Yalibrarian
Manassas, VA
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04-30-2004, 04:27 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Clermont FL & Central NJ
Posts: 427
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
moleskin
Bandaids
Packets of Neosporin
Advil
Ammodium
Calsace
a couple blister packs of DayQuil and Nightquil (to get through until next day)
a few cough drops
Zantac
a few disposable thermometers
all prescription meds
The only ones I carry around are a couple Band-Aids, a packet of Neosporin, a couple Zantac, and a packet of Advil--I always carry these with me though.
And for me, a card detailing my asthma and allergies, as well as the medications I take.
This last one came in handy last weekend when I was treated by paramedics for an asthma attack and couldn't speak to give them info--I pulled the card out and they had everything they needed to know.
Anne
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05-19-2004, 06:00 PM
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Community Rank: Passenger
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: NH
Posts: 29
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
I also bring along "Tempanol" you use it if you lose a filling, belive me I learned the hard way. It's not for major reconstruction but if you have a filling fall out it works great. I bought mine at Wal Mart.I always take it when ever I travel because you just never know.
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05-20-2004, 04:11 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Hooksett, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 2,363
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Re: Your WDW First Aid/Medicine Kit
I HAVE to bring both Tylenol AND Motrin for my son. (Every trip he has spike a fever not that he lets that stop him.) Tylenol, Pepcid, and Tums for myself. Band-aids, nerosporin, benedryl. Most important a secret supply of gummy bears cause my son say that ALWAYs make his boo-boos feel better.
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07-05-2004, 11:00 AM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 4,148
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\"Beat the Heat\" Tips
OK, it's summertime and it is HOT at WDW  . I love visiting the parks when it's mid-winter here in upstate NY, but that's not always possible.There are a number of health conditions and/or medications that make being in the heat and sun very uncomfortable. So, it's 98 degrees,the humidity is 90% and the sun is making the pavement hot enough to melt a Mickey Bar on contact. What do you do to stay cool(er)?!  Please share your ideas with fellow PassPorters- feel free to include ideas that have helped your youngsters, infants and older parents too  .
DD decided to put fashion aside(this was when she was 10, so I'm not sure she'd take the "chance" now  ) and soak a bandana in cold water and tie it around her head. I did the same thing, but wrapped the cool cloth around my throat as I didn't want to ruin my "Minnie Mouse" visor! |
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07-06-2004, 01:02 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: \"Beat the Heat\" Tips
Having a daughter (Samantha) that cannot control her body temp. (Spinal Cord Injuries tend to have no control over this) we have learned over the years to help her stay cool.
1. DO NOT GO SOUTH OF LOUISVILLE,KY IN THE SUMMER
2. Use an umbrella, a light colored one is best, as a sun shade
3. carry one of those fan/water sprayers at all times
4. Take a zip-loc bag, fill it with ice and a touch of water, and put it in your ball-cap, then wear the hat!
5. Drink A LOT of water
6. When at Disney, spend a little of each hour in the A.C., even if it is to walk through it
7. know your body, and listen to when it tells you to stop and rest
8. eat very lightly and very early, then only small, easy to digest snacks until later in the evening (the body creates heat when it is digesting)
9. Needless to say, dress in light colored and light cloth clothes. No polyester. Only cotton and other breathable fabric.
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07-17-2004, 07:58 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: California
Posts: 3,878
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Re: \"Beat the Heat\" Tips
At WDW do the waterparks on those really hot days. Or do water rides at the other parks and make sure you get wet.
The other parks I would do early in the day or at night. Hang out by the pool during the midday.
Spray bottles with fans, and drink lots of water. I also like the ice cube in a bag under your hat.
Try one of those wrap around cloth coolers on your neck.
For the exception of waterparks all apply to Disneyland and California Adventure too.
What ever you do have fun and stay
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