oh..that makes me so sad..lol

Back in '91 traveled around western Europe by bike -- Berlin to Paris via Amsterdam and no one ever asked to see my passport, let alone stamp it. I must admit I was a bit disappointed. The only stamp I picked up was at JFK when I came home. It wasn't until '96, when I started my unplanned RTW (which I completed in '05), that I got any foreign ones. I think the first was from Hungary at the end of an overnight bus from Paris. I wish I could check my passport to be sure, but that one was stolen in Amsterdam a few years later -- just as well as it had both Israeli and Turkish Cypriot stamps in it.

First stamp was in London, January '99, at the age of 19.

Most recent (can we add this to the game?) was out of Frankfurt last February. I'm kind of bummed because since that's the gateway into Europe for United flights, I now have several stamps there...even though I've never left the airport.

I mean, I eventually left the airport...not like in the Tom Hanks movie...(Terminal?) I just never stepped foot on German soil.

Rome, Italy, 1980?

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Originally posted by joychild:
I mean, I eventually left the airport...not like in the Tom Hanks movie...(Terminal?) I just never stepped foot on German soil.

That movie was on tv tonight. Great movie

Issued passport around Nov. 2004, age 18.

First (and only ) stamp, wherever the main airport is, Costa Rica, March 2005.

Hawaii, when I was around 14.

Mexico. I had been to Europe before this but they just looked at my passport and didn't stamp it. Does anyone else find it annoying that some officials feel the need to not only stamp a new page in the passport but stamp right in the middle making the page useless for any other countries?

Jakarta, Indonesia on May 1995. I was 14. I'm on my 3rd passport now (expires every 5 years), and the last two stamps were from Australia and Singapore

Hmm my first stamp was 10 years was in 95 or 96 for the UK, it's actually my only stamp so far, I really have to get away from Canada again soon... But I must save money..

Thailand then Vietnam.
I think the first thing in my passport though, was my Vietnamese visa.
I was 15.

Manila.

Which I used to spell Manilla. How embarassing.

Manilla Manila :P Been travelling on planes since I was a toddler...

*sorry jedi -- couldn't resist!

Now people are going to think that you corrected a misspell and then I edited my post, which is not what happened.

I just had to laugh because I found my little cd that goes with my video camera and I had written Manilla on there. That's on there FOREVER.


...And Cayce, I'm jealous of your hair.