I am a travel disaster area. I rain misery and misfortune on those in my company, and send off some seriously negative karmic vibes while not at my home base.
After a New Years in Seattle that mostly consisted of me getting the party started too early and falling asleep on a couch to the noisy sounds of foosball, we were presented w/ a problem resulting from the following facts:
1. New ID requirements are coming into effect at the end of 2006, such that all American citizens need either a passport or birth certificate to cross the border.
2. Greyhound is under special orders to implement the above policies at the end of 2005, and to not let passengers buy tickets without the appropriate citizenship documentation
3. A driver's license is not a birth certificate or a passport.
We did get back to my house by the ETA of 7 PM, but in a rental car, some trouble remembering how long I had been away from Canada and after much mulling over my karmic disaster-ness.
I had a headache all day. It's the kind that comes from having lived though never-ending travel mishaps that ALWAYS happen but also always manage to resolve themeselves w/ some creativity (see the Paris, London and Ireland experiences). I don't know if I can take 60 more years of this.
After a New Years in Seattle that mostly consisted of me getting the party started too early and falling asleep on a couch to the noisy sounds of foosball, we were presented w/ a problem resulting from the following facts:
1. New ID requirements are coming into effect at the end of 2006, such that all American citizens need either a passport or birth certificate to cross the border.
2. Greyhound is under special orders to implement the above policies at the end of 2005, and to not let passengers buy tickets without the appropriate citizenship documentation
3. A driver's license is not a birth certificate or a passport.
We did get back to my house by the ETA of 7 PM, but in a rental car, some trouble remembering how long I had been away from Canada and after much mulling over my karmic disaster-ness.
I had a headache all day. It's the kind that comes from having lived though never-ending travel mishaps that ALWAYS happen but also always manage to resolve themeselves w/ some creativity (see the Paris, London and Ireland experiences). I don't know if I can take 60 more years of this.
