I haven't been outside the US since 2002. I used to go nearly every year, and I've spent 2 years plus one semester living in Europe.
Stinkin' kids.
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Jul 06, 2009 1:08:09 pm PDT #27614 of 30000
information libertarian
Calli - Jul 06, 2009 1:08:51 pm PDT #27615 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I got a passport for a work trip several years ago. I promptly lost it a month after getting home, so I had to order a new one. It was an expensive piece of carelessness, but at least my current one's good through 2014.
Kathy A - Jul 06, 2009 1:10:32 pm PDT #27616 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Another one who's never had a passport here. I have been to Nova Scotia once, and also had family vacations when we went over the border for lunch and then the time we went to Niagara Falls and spent the late afternoon and evening on the Canada side. But that's it for foreign visits.
sarameg - Jul 06, 2009 1:12:19 pm PDT #27617 of 30000
My first trip out of the country was a quaker work project trip. Next was college abroad. SInce then, it's been with family.
What's utterly bizarre is I still have not been to Mexico, despite spending the first 18 years of my life able to see it from the high parts of the city, and having regularly been within a mile of it. And then the first time I go abroad, the country starts dissolving within 2 weeks of my return to the States.
Still pissed the USSR wasn't doing entrance/exit stamps that summer.
tommyrot - Jul 06, 2009 1:12:23 pm PDT #27618 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hmmm... I've been thinking it'd be fun to go to Cuba before it gets all Capitalismized. (A friend went a few years ago.)
Cashmere - Jul 06, 2009 1:18:16 pm PDT #27619 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'd really love to see Paris someday, though.
Paris is overrated.
t /issues with Parisians
I got several mosquito bites during the fireworks display and I am DYING of the itch.
Barb - Jul 06, 2009 1:19:07 pm PDT #27620 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
You can renew by mail if you have your old passport, if it's undamaged, and if it was issued after the age of 16. (Oh, it also would need to have been issued within the last 15 years.)
::SNORT::
I do believe I'll be applying for a new one. I was... erm... fourteen when I got the sucker and it was never renewed and it's definitely going to be more than fifteen years, seeing as I turn forty-two next month.
I R SLACKR
Thanks, Dana! You're a goddess!
Scrappy - Jul 06, 2009 1:19:31 pm PDT #27621 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Paris is WONDERFUL. Parisians, OTOH, not so much.
DavidS - Jul 06, 2009 1:19:39 pm PDT #27622 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I knew I wanted to go to Paris before I turned 30, so I saved money for a year and did it. Great trip. Spent a week in London and two weeks in Paris. But I don't know what happened to that passport and that's the last time I've been out of the country (some 18 years now).
Barb - Jul 06, 2009 1:19:47 pm PDT #27623 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I got several mosquito bites during the fireworks display and I am DYING of the itch.
The Benadryl topical gel is a godsend.
::also bitten up on the Fourth::