Passport DilemmaWimb. What would you do?

[Pat Vegas]

My passport expires 25th of Feb.

This new job I am waiting for the written offer (which is on it's way) which I will probably receive this evening or tomorrow.

I have to go to the US immediately ( I am able to travel with Canadian passport as long as the travel is within the validity of the passport.

So do I
A) leave it and take the chance

or
B) renew it now and hope it arrives in time. 20 working days it will take. I would do the application for it tomorrow morning.

I am going for option B

[Classic Jorge]

but I spose you can use your canuck one, providing you mention it on your Visa

[Dutch Gooner]

[Luis Anaconda]

Trying to renew it abroad is a f**king pain. It isn't just all about you, p

[Berni]

Failing which, could you not get a British one done quickly at the Pisspot Office in Victoria? I once saw Sam Kelly out of 'Allo 'Allo while I was waiting there. He died shortly afterwards, though, so he didn't really get the full value out of his 10-year passport, poor chap. :-(

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Pat Vegas]

as they process it in Canada now.

As for the UK one as I never had a UK one before it takes 6 weeks. but i will look into it further if needed.

I am sure it will be alright. Worst case I will tell the new company to extend it a week if needed. though they seem quite insistent I need to be there ASAP.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

accepted because it's in an expired passport. The US embassy refuses to guarantee that it will be considered valid, but says it 'should be' :furious:

[Luis Anaconda]

lovely colourful thing it was. Or is this a work thing? They are very funny about journalists travelling to the US, land of the Free

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

Although, in fairness, that's good practice for when you have to go through US Immigration.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Luis Anaconda]

While it still exists

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

I for one, would be humbled and honoured to be allowed enter Her Majesty's Back Garden. :bow:

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

if you're silly enough to tell them you're there as a journalist to do journalist things that they can get uppity.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[PSRB]

I've always breezed through

[Pat Vegas]

Chicago and New York were a mess took forever.

All the other places I have been have been cool.

[Classic Jorge]

Also, JFK is like its own dantean circle of hell

[Pat Vegas]

Probably lack of smokes and a long arse queue.
$15 for a packet of cigarettes :furious: I thought it was gonna be cheap. They are only $5 in California.

But enjoyed it afterwards.

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Pat Vegas]

known as the Reich Card.

[PSRB]

[Classic Jorge]

Maybe it's the Jack Kerouac fanboy in me but I wanted to be out of there. Off to Patterson New Jersey and Allentown Pensylvania, to the real america where beautiful freaks wailed in the sodden moonlight drenched in their own ecstacy, daddio.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Pat Vegas]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/53924000/jpg/_53924284_001855082-1.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_gIZsFKTC1g/hqdefault.jpg

[Luis Anaconda]

They made us go all the way through immigration even though we weren't entering the country. Then back through security - fortunately our flight was delayed a couple of hours or we would never have got through in time. it was chaos (was a month or so after 9/11)

[Classic Jorge]

I'm not dignifying that joke with a response though.

Safe to say I hate Illinois Nazis.

https://45.media.tumblr.com/4444feac6cb803f0ac3027a022170c68/tumblr_n3yhilpluL1samduuo1_400.gif

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

How come the rest of the world understand the concept of 'In Transit' but septics fail to grasp it? Daft *******s.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

[Luis Anaconda]

Indisputably the biggest pile of *******s I have ever read. Quite frankly On the Buses was a higher art form

[Luis Anaconda]

constituted "security". *******s

[Classic Jorge]

...on a six day Benzedrine binge and on one continuous scroll of paper.

[Berni]

it was a pile of ****.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

I loved the man and devoured everything he and his fellow beats published.

I re-read The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test last year and that's still as awesome and mental as it was the first time I read it.

[Berni]

People bought into the Kerouac myth and were prepared to overlook the fact that his books weren't awfully good.

Did you know that Gore Vidal bummed him?

[Classic Jorge]

I disagree, I think he was a really interesting writer. Once you were into the rhythm of his stuff it was incredibly easy to read.

[Berni]

It's incredibly difficult to do well and those authors who manage it are some of my favourites (Joyce, Faulkner), but is also a great way for bad writers to obscure their technical shortcomings. Kerouac for me is in the latter category.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

dry-mouthed speed freak - and about as much fun.

Because that's basically what he was, of course. :shrug: