Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Trina Wellington DeAnda asks,

Now that you have found your passport, where are you going first?

Just a bit of background to the question, I moved back in September 2020, and when I moved, I was in a bit of a rush. I literally packed up everything I had in a single day.

In the process of moving, I thought that I had packed my passport in a box, and I even wrote “passport” on the box so I would know where it was.

When I later checked the box marked “passport,” I couldn’t find it. I couldn’t find it in any of my boxes, almost all of which remained packed up. It wasn’t until April of this year, when I moved again, that I went through the process of unpacking everything I had originally packed back in 2020 and most of the stuff that I had put in storage back in 2007.

I did eventually find my passport. It was in a plastic bag with my other old, expired passports.

So with that, where will I go first? As of right now, I have no set plans to go anywhere other than Puerto Rico in September, and I don’t actually need a passport to travel there.

If I go anywhere, it will probably be to one of the few countries in the region that I haven’t been to yet. Jamaica, Cuba, Colombia, or Nicaragua. Jamaica or Colombia would be the easiest to get to by far, and both would be a nice break in the winter.