We’ve recently updated our places visited list (aka our ISO 3166 Country List) and were thrilled to see that as of our last trip, we have checked off 100 unique destinations!! (there are 253 destinations on the list). We currently have 25 destinations planned in 2025; 10 of them are new, 15 are repeats per the list. The rest of 2024 is up in the air as we are currently without passports.
We had to send our passports back for renewal 2 years early as we have run out of pages for entry/exit stamps. For our renewal, we have opted for the larger 52 page passport ( vs the normal 28 ). We’ve suspended our international travel planning for the remainder of 2024 until such time as we are in possession of our new passports with their associated new numbers. We are hopeful that they will be delivered before the end of the month so we can be gone during the November election proceedings (we vote by mail).
We sent the expedited renewal applications in on September 30th, the passport office received them on October 2nd, and began processing on October 4th. The expedited processing should take 2-3 weeks plus the time to mail them to us. We are looking forward to international travel again.