Passport

The system to get a passport in the United States is currently a hot mess. In January 2020, it generally took 6-8 weeks to get a passport, and in April…

Happy Sunday to all our travel friends, both near and far. Here are some articles we’ve read from other bloggers (and other sources) that we think you may like, so…

The State Department updated its website the other day, and if you need to get a passport, there seems to be some good news and some bad news. I’ll start…

While perusing the internet in recent months, I’ve seen a lot of posts that go the way of, “We’ve been living in [name of foreign country] and need to get…

During a recent press event in Ottowa, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that border openings and vaccine passports are both being discussed by government officials. “Scientists and other experts…

As the U.S. tries to get more of a handle on coronavirus and more people are getting their “Fauchi Ouchie,” more people are traveling. Right now that travel is mainly…

If you visit the U.S. State Department’s official website, travel.state.gov, it gives you an approximation of the processing times it’s currently taking to get a new or renewed passport. This…

Millions of U.S. citizens cheered when the U.S. State Department announced they were going to re-start processing passports last June, after the process had been shut down since March (thanks,…

For the last year, our goal was to try and avoid catching the coronavirus. After we dodged two bullets when traveling to San Francisco and New York City at the…

Analyzing and reporting since 2006, the Henley Passport Index provides a ranking of the 199 passports (countries and territories) of the world according to the number of countries their respective…