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In reply to the discussion: My wife and I just renewed our expired passports. [View all]MineralMan
(146,329 posts)for some reason. I don't know why, unless it's because we always reserve exit row seats. I don't mind carrying my passport, though, at least until I get my DL renewed when it expires. At that time, I'll opt for the Real ID version of the license.
Really, though, it's a good idea to have a valid passport. I mean, when we win the Powerball jackpot, we're going to travel all sorts of places, so I want to have my passport ready.
Here's a funny story, though, about passports. When I started freelance writing as a career, my business card had a line on it that said, : "Valid passport; Will travel" I put that on there as a joke to myself. As if someone was going to give me an assignment that required international travel. As it turned out, though, one publication I sent a query letter to called me and asked if I was available to do a story that required travel to Brazil. "Sure," I told the editor, who had only seen samples of my work. Two days later, I was on a plane. The story didn't pay that well, but the trip was paid for, so it was all good. I wrote up the story about that company's excavating equipment being used at a mine in Brazil as soon as I got back. It was published along with the photos I took. I guess putting that line on my business card turned out to be a good idea.
You just never know when you'll need that passport, I guess.