My AMAZING Experience getting my new U.S. Passport in Costa Rica!!

I literally JUST walked in the door from an AMAZING experience!!

I applied for a new U.S. Passport (my pages were full from all my Visa Runs [plus extra trips to Nicaragua - just because]) at 11am on Wednesday December 31.

They said it would take about 10 business days & since it was a holiday week when a LARGE % of the employees were off - I figured it would take longer.

I received my email that it was in on . . . Wednesday - January 8 - just 4 business days later!!!!

I went to the embassy today to pick it up.  I decided to leave my bag in my friends car so I didn't have to check it in, check all my electronic gizmos, get scanned, etc., & from the minute I put my hand on the door to walk into the first entrance (security), waited for the 2 guys in front of me, got my passport & signed it, they punched the 2 holes in it (above), ask the gal how her Christmas was - I was OUT the last exit door in . . . 10 MINUTES!!!!

(Goddess I LOVE [& often miss] EFFICIENCY!!!)

Just sharin' a POSITIVE experience in CR!!!

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DAMN!!

I thought it seemed heavier & I just counted my pages & sure enough - they gave me the "free" extra pages even though I swear I SPECIFICALLY checked off that I did NOT want them.

Hmmm - MAYBE this is a sign to sometime in the next few years I'm going to be elsewhere!! (maybe it's a sign that [in the NOT too near future] I'll be traveling all over the world for awhile!!! 

Hey - I'm open to that!!)

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Check out my
Step-by-Step Guide on
LivingLifeInCostaRica.blogspot.com/2013/02/renewing-your-us-passport-cr.html


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