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524> bliss = renew'd passport to go nowhere xcept wear u @


12 April 2017 | DC> dint go ningun lugar this week, dear Inurnet .. our bedder-½ off in Rotterdam but dint go this time around, nor when she went to NYC + Boston th week b4. Got brand-spanking renude passport back tho, old 1 on vurge of xpiring .. thawt we mite go to China next month but now thinking udderwise .. getting bedder @ saying no to tempting travel invitations .. never traveled to China b4 + now u got a reason (bedder-½ has a meeting in Beijing) .. @ 1° thinking hey, what a waste to just go big smoggy city, mayas well see other parts of China .. + y not stop in Japan too ± Vietnam we in th hood aft'r ∀ll .. + ends up she needs to go to East Timor again, we kin hit Java ± Oz along th way .. + then she needs to go to Stockholm, hell, may as well git 1 of them round-th-world tickets + stop up to 14 times for cheaper then that ticket .... weve come 1 time zone away, but never have we traveled truly «round th world» ala Jules Verne, tho our bedder-½ did early this year .... we even spent a day ± 2 cuntriving th ultimate RTW itinerary .. not th 1° time, in 2015 we pieced together a RTW route + even plug'd in our credit card + click'd <buy> bud our credit card got declined + we took that as a sine .. just like th other day we slap'd ourself strait + said wait, whatever happend to us travelling less? if u read this you've herd our gripes, especially how air travel truly sucks this day + age, th indignity .. + everywhere u go overrun w/ tourists .. not to menshun th hits to th o-zone layer from aviation fuel .... hard to say no tho, an s-cape like no other, from th day-to-day of th boring ol' homefront .. what'd Vonnegut say about unexpected travel plans? Dance lessons from Dog ± sum new age bullshit, embarrassed to edmit we even member that .. de Toto's modos, China aint on our bucketlist, not even to say bin there dun that .. this th pyschle we got to brake .. lets see if u kin hold us to our word .... so in loo of a proper blogpost this week wheel reveal here our passport pages in th order they got stamp'd link'd to th post correosponding to that stamp (as best we can). This passport covers 2007-2017 .. we had 3 passports b4 this wich may-b wheel show here 1 day .. along w/ entries from when we kept journels that dont live webbed yet .. (who needs moondough when u got Inurnet?):

 

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[th opening page we aint revealing to protect our IDentity]

 

1° comes our Kenyan visa wich for sum reason they cancelled «without prejudice» + reissued on pg 11. Also on pg 8 an exit stamp from Rome in Nov 2008. On pg 9 a bunch of enter + exit stamps to Kenya when we lived there in 2008 + a U.S. entry Oct 2009

 

pg 10: more stamps from Kenya 08 + another to Rome in 2012 when we lived there (on th rare occassion they stamp'd our passport, wich Italians usually dont bother) + pg. 11 our Kenyan 6-mo re-entry visa from 2008

 

pg 12: more kenya enter/exits from 2008/2009, Thailand 2008 + Dublin 2011 (i think) + 2 others i cant identify + on pg 13 a visa for Tanzania 2009

 

pg 14 (last pg of regular passport before they added 1° supplement) has a few more Kenya re-entrys + Rome 2015 (i think) + Malawi 2009 + a few i cant make out (probly Rome + Tanzania) + Abu Dhabi 2015 (tho hardly 1 nite) + on pg A more NYC + Rome re-entrys

 

on pg B: Mexico 2013 + Mexico 2016 + Northern Italy 2014 + pg C: Madrid 2012 + a few from Rome + 4 i cant identify tho judging by dates UK 2011, UK 2012 + maybe even another UK 2009

 

Pg D: more NYC + Rome re-entrys + Montenegro 2012 + Dublin 2011 + on pg E: Chile 2013 + Croatia 2012 + a few more european ones i cant make out

 

pg F: Slovenia 2012 + Chile 2014 + Thailand 2012 + +pg G: another Thailand + Rome + Amsterdam 2013

+ Spain 2013 + a few more unidentifed (as i go thru this exorcise realizing customs agents need better ink pads!)

 

pg H: Signapore 2012/3 x2 + Chile 2014 + Madrid 2012 + pg I: Ethiopia 2012

 

pg J: Tanzania 2012 + pg K: Tanzania + Zurich (layover) + Nantes (France) 2016

 

pg L: more U.S. + Rome + Chile + pg M: Turkey 2011 + more unidentified

 

pg N: Cambodia 2012 + pg O: more Cambodia + Nepal 2013

 

pg P: Nepal carryover + then a few stamps in Portuguese, Timor-Leste 2012? + pg Q: exit from Dili (Timor) + Indonesia 2012 (exit + re-entry)

 

pg R: more Chile + Argentina 2014 (went back + forth across the border a few times) + another Amsterdam 2013 + pg S: more Argentina + London Feb 2016

 

pg T: NYC 2014 + Malaysia 2015 + Indonesia 2014 + pg U: Delhi 2015 + i think Paris 2015

 

pg V: Nepal 2015 + London 2015 + pg W: Indonesia 2015 + London 2013

 

pg X: London 2015 + Milan 2015 + another Zurich (tho weve never left th airport) + pg A (starting th 2° supplement we had to add): Copenhagen 2016 (en route to Sweden)

 

pg B: London Sept 2016 (1 of 4x we went in 2016) + more Milan + Zurich + another Euro 1 i cant ID + pg C: more i can't ID + Gatwick, guessing 2016 + NYC 2013

 

pg D: Myanamar 2016 + Kenya 2016 + pg E: Copenhagen 2016 + Kenya 2016

 

pg F: Mexico (cant see date but guessing 2017 (th last time we left th country)

 

pg H: nada + pg I: just a NYC re-entry

 

pg J: United Arab Emirates 2015 (layover)

 

pg L: Mexico 2016 + Montenegro 2012 (or Croatia?) + Croatia/Slovenia 2012 + another looks like a Balkan state, probly Bosnia 2012

 

pg N: 2 barely legible + pg O: Madrid 2012

 

pg X blank + pg 15: more NYC + Kenya + 3-4 European 1s i cant ID

 

pg 16: Mali 2009 (Timbuktu or bust!) + pg 17: Ethiopia 2009

 

pg 18: Bamako (Mali exit) more Kenya + U.S. + Thailand 2009 + pg 19: Nicaragua 2010 + UK 2009 + NYC 2010 + a European entry from 2008

 

pg 20: more Rome + Zurich 2011 + NYC 2010 + pg 21: Italian Visa (for when we moved there in 2010)

 

pg 22: Kenya 2011 + India 2011

 

pg 24: more Kenya 2008 stamps not sure why + pg 25: more random Rome 2011

 

pg 26: Chile 2013 re-entry visa (fucker cost like $100, keep it!) + pg 27: Japan 2009

 523 <( )> 525 > Stung by a stonefish in Aitutaki + other South Seas adventures from handwritten archives (1990)

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