Wasn’t aware a passport was required for a U.S. citizen to visit P.R.

It isn’t. But re-entering the United States requires unassailable identification these days.

"unassailable” you would make me reach for my dictionary wouldn’t you?

You’re right about the unassailable part, Kate.  A passport definitely makes life easier, even when traveling to/from Canada and Mexico.  As far as FedEx-ing it, I guess you’d have to ask them what sort of guarantee they have if you send it to a hotel(odds say they won’t have one).  Since PR is part of the States, there’s not an embassy or consulate to send it to, so I have no idea on that.

The step-mom just called with an address. It’s her dad’s business. She assured me that everything will be perfectly fine as long as it’s there by Thursday. ;)

My boy is in Kenya right now, and we’ve had to send him some essentials. He “lost” his ATM card and the replacement we sent him never arrived. We subsequently learned that the card was stolen from the envelope in Nairobi and someone attempted to use it at an ATM. Fortunately, the machine ate the card. The technique we are supposed to use this time is to put the card inside the middle of a novel, then have the novel shrink-wrapped and send that to him. Apparently, no one wants to bother with books, so they let them pass through the mails. Ugh! I’m sure your post to PR will NOT be as convoluted as this.

Wow, pablo.  If it didn’t contravene agricultural laws or something, I’d be tempted to put it inside a small python or coral snake and then ship it to Nairobi.  (And I thought Nigeria was the sole source of scams from that part of the world!)

LOL! Beware of packages from Linkmeister!

A few years ago while I was collecting and trading postcards, I got to learn some of the ins and outs of mailing packages of postcards to various countries. I mean, just simple postcards. Never had a problem with China or some of the less than stable areas in Central America, but The Netherlands posed a problem, of all places. I finally stopped trading with people in that country because so many of the packages simply vanished. The people I traded with there said that packages coming in often had a habit of doing that. They were extremely frustrated by it. That really surprised me.

Good luck, Pablo. Send a really boring novel!

Love Pablo’s idea!!  Gee, J travels back and forth to PR on business a couple of times of year and has never taken his passport--as far as I know and I think he might have mentioned it.  Strange, I will have to ask him tonight if there has ever been a problem.  It does seem odd.....

I guess though everyone should have one from now on anyway as (I think) as of December 31, this year, you will need it wherever you travel, Canada, Bermuda, PR, VI, everywhere........or at least that is what I heard.........

Enjoy your cleaning--if you run out of things to do, c’mon down!!  You are the second person this week that is spending their time (happily) cleaning.  Must be something wrong with me...........;)

My word is “merry” and if I did not have to go to work, that is what I would be.........

I dunno. They all carry their passports when they travel back and forth. Maybe it’s just wanting to avoid potential problems. In any case, with the lad, it’s his only legal form of identification, since he’s one of the handful of 18 years olds who still doesn’t have his drivers license. A situation that, I’ve told him, will be rectified this summer.

Cyn, it’s not that I’m *happily* cleaning as much as *enjoying* the end results. It’s just too bad those results don’t last very long.