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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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Angie and I are back from Hawaii. We took the plane up twice. I am checked out for the 172 for another year in Hawaii if you want me to fly us around the islands. It was spectacular. We flew commercial to Maui (OGG) from HNL and then in the 172 to Molokai, Lanai, and around. In between we got a lot of good images of Molokini and a bunch of other small islands without landing strips. We swam, snorkeled, and played in the surf. We drove the Hana Highway and flew the equivalent. We took almost 4000 photos. We both learned (from our very different perspectives) more about and appreciated the legitimacy of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture. Here is some raw footage as well. I am sure I will have things edited a bit in the future.
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