First Step
I am trying to figure out how to get what I need to
travel overseas.
Apparently, from what people tell me in passing, I
need a passport.
I cannot simply use my drivers license or birth certificate
to get out of or back in to the United states.
Someone told me to go to the post office, but at
my local post office, they told me I need to go
to a bigger one.
I wnet there and got the application form, but now
I need to get photographs taken that are of a certain
specification. You cannot do it yourself. Or you could
try to do it yourself, but you might likely mess it up.
Your eyes have to be visible for color.
Your head has to be a certain size.
You have to be facing in a certain prescribed
direction so they can see both sides of your
face or something. I am not really sure.
Then there is the money. Do you know how
much a passport costs these days? Not only
that, but if you want the application expedited
you have to pay even more.
I wish I had known all this long ago when i started
thinking about traveling, as I would have tried to
get it done then.
As it is, I guess nowadays the news is getting out
that everyone needs passports, and the line today
was probably a few dozen people long, and it moved
very slowly. All I was doing was getting the application,
so I get to go through that line all over again when
I return my application.
I have looked around in the phone book for who can
take passport photograps. I am thinking I will go
with AAA. You still have to pay, but I think AAA
generally gives reliable servi ce, and they are used
to helping people travel.
I was also thinking that they may have some ideas
about what I need to go to Europe and some information.
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