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.
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.)
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.
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!
Paris is WONDERFUL. Parisians, OTOH, not so much.
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).
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::
I loved Paris and liked the Parisians I met. NSM the waiters, but the kids were cool.
It was the Parisian bag lady that attached DH outside of Gare du Nord that broke the camel's back for us. Oh, and the Louvre being closed on the one day we could visit.
I also suspect that some of my ancestors were with Henry V at Agincourt.
I've got the Bendryl cream and I'm still itchy. Might take some oral Bendryl, too, later.
I don't think not having a passport is weird; they are expensive. I know since I have to buy two each time.
I guess I'm helping make up for the people with none.
ETA: Ignoring Cash