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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 only 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 passpo...
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I am back in Atlanta. I made it into Heidelberg for a day. We met in the Heidelberg Print Media training facility on the top floor. It is a significant piece of architecture, no doubt. It could probably be considered a form of modern castle. It is the tallest building around. I had several notebooks I used for years that had an image of the facility and the Pegasus art on the cover. It was weird being there after being so familiar with my notebook image for years and years. I didn't get any time to doing anything touristy in Germany this trip. But, it was a productive trip. I will be back in other parts of Germany in two weeks. The blurry graphic is from a restaurant menu in Heidelberg. It seems to show a devil wheeling someone into a fireplace. How interesting.
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On plane to Frankfurt Germany.
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