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Expidite the expidited

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I am headed to the passport office this AM to get a new passport. I didn't have time to do the expidited renewal after getting back from Japan. So I made an special expiditing appointment with the passport folks in Atlanta. I am glad I ony have to drive into Atlanta, not fly up to NY or Washington DC. It seems I have had to do some expiditing everytime I have renewed my passport. Passports are good for 10 years. When you get a new passport it is a time to ponder where you will be and what the passport will look like in 10 years. The pic belows shows the wear on my now cancelled passport. it was a 50 page book (the extra pages version) and 46 pages are fully used. Many countries require 3 empty pages to enter their country. So, I got full use of the larger size passport. If you need more pages, you send the passport in and they will "sew-in" more pages. The thickest passport I ever saw was at the Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan border. A truck driver I saw had a Uzbekistan passpor...
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We are headed to Rochester for Easter. Rosie is still down, but Bonnie has become a llama whisperer and started giving her Tylenol Arthritus and that has made things a lot better. We will see how she progresses. Was I in Antarctica? It seems so weird at this point. Also I don't think anyone can be *in* antarctica. Being *on* Antarctica seems much more appropriate. Whereas *in* North America is fine since you are immersed in society. There is no society in Antarctica. It is an outpost of a foreign land at best. This is a picture of the dome at Pole. The historic dome will be gone soon. I feel so fortunate to have touched it and been inside.
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I have a flying lesson tonight if the weather is ok. I was in Canada night before last. Quite a bit of driving in the last 48 hours. Rosie is still down. We will get her up tonight. We don't know what her problem is. Click pic for video
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