How relevant this is! After about 12 weeks of hemming and hawing, the DoS FINALLY gave me a passport! Now, as they say, "The world is yours." How I've been itching to take a trip somewhere outside the US. It's a bit sad, really - 23 years alive and I've never left American shores. Not even to Mexico (I'm about 6-8 hours away from the border) or ( Read more... )