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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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03-12-2006, 06:22 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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State visits
Which states have you been to?
For a foreigner, I don't do badly:
Florida
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
California
Nevada
Arizona
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03-12-2006, 06:25 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 13,146
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Re: State visits
Florida
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Maine
Nevada
Arizona
Not enough, I'd love to visit more.
Karen
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03-12-2006, 06:40 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The Jersey Shore
Posts: 7,249
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Re: State visits
New York, Pennsylvania, Mass., Connecticut, New Hamp., Virginia, Maryland & D.C., Georgia, Florida, Texas, California and Washington.
In 4 weeks I'll be adding Nevada to the list [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
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03-12-2006, 06:56 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: NC
Posts: 3,536
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Re: State visits
Florida, Mass., Ohio, S. Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Virgina
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03-12-2006, 07:06 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: State visits
[b]Florida (of course)
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Connecticut
Deleware
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Washington, DC
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03-12-2006, 07:42 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Manchester NH
Concierge Level: 4
Posts: 12,514
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Re: State visits
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Indiana
DC
Florida
Georgia
Virginia
Texas
Nevada
California
Washington
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03-12-2006, 08:07 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: State visits
I am not very well traveled - and most of my travel has been solely in the Eastern US - with the exception of a wonderful trip to Denver!
Maine
NH
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
Virginia
Washington DC (not a state - but a great place to visit!)
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
Tennessee
South Carolina
North Carolina
Colorado
Illinois
Michigan
I think that's it - I'll have to check my atlas and see if I can remember any other trips.
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03-12-2006, 08:18 AM
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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: State visits
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Virginia
Drove thru West Virginia & North Carolina to get to South Carolina
FLORIDA!!!
We also drive to Canada a lot...I've been as far north as Toronto. I [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] Toronto!!!
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03-12-2006, 08:34 AM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 31,940
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Re: State visits
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Oklahoma
Missouri
Arkasas
Louisiana
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
Massachucetts
Rhode Island
Illinois
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
California
Washington
Oregon
Wyoming
Idaho
Utah
Colorado
Hawaii
New York
New Jersey
West Virginia
Tennessee!!! (Maureen's post reminded me)
I've visited 30 states out of 51.... and since I am running the 50 states and DC half marathon club - I plan to visit them all eventually!!!
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03-12-2006, 08:41 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: State visits
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Illinois
California
Nevada
19 Plus the District of Columbia!
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03-12-2006, 09:32 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Posts: 10,721
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Re: State visits
Utah
New York
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Texas
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Missouri
Illinois
And next month I can add California to that list!
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03-12-2006, 09:48 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Montana
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,499
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Re: State visits
New York (I'm originally from here)
Vermont
Massachusetts (DH is from Boston area)
New Hampshire (my favorite state, used to live in Concord)
Maine (the state I'd most like to live in)
Pennsylvania(otherwise known as The Construction State) [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Maryland
District of Columbia
Delaware
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina(lived in Wilmington)
South Carolina
Florida
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Tennessee
Michigan
Missouri
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Wow, seeing them in a list makes me realize I've never been to the western part of the U.S. I hope to remedy that someday. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]
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Get this popular e-book free of extra charges when you join the PassPorter's Club for as little as $4.95. A club pass includes access to all our other e-books; e-worksheets; super-size photos; and more! This e-book is also available for separate purchase in the PassPorter Online Store for just $5.95. |
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03-12-2006, 10:03 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 12,270
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Re: State visits
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Bill!! I'm glad you alphabetized them!!
Mine are:
South Carolina
North Carolina
Florida
Georgia
New York
New Jersey
Virginia
Tennessee
I have driven through & stopped at rest stations at: ([img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img])
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
I told y'all I haven't left the east coast....and the majority of that list comes from the New York trip we took last summer.
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03-12-2006, 10:21 AM
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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: State visits
Me
NH
VT
MA
RI
CT
NY
NJ
PA
FL
IL
TX
NV
WI
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03-12-2006, 10:28 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Western NY
Posts: 534
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Re: State visits
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Conneticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Kansas, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missippi, Tennesee
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