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[Natasha]

Do you have a passport?
I just heard only 20% of Americans have a passort.
Seems very low to me.
Have you been wanting to get one, and just haven't gotten around to it?
Or have you had one since you were 21?

 

[SPEEDSTER]

I'm surprised its even 20%. The vast majority of the country has not even seen much outside their home state, let alone the country.

I got my passport when I was 23.

 

[Tim Ingersoll]

I had a passport when I was a kid for a European vacation but I let it lapse. I renewed it in 1994 at the age of 30 in order to begin travelling and diving in the Caribbean.

 

[redacted]

A population of scuba divers is probably not a representative sample. But the answer is yes.

 

[Natasha]

My husband from Texas, has been a certified diver YMCA since he was 14 years old. He just got his first ever passport, 3 years ago, when he met me.

 

[drizzt117]

I got my passport a few years ago b/c I was flying to Canada. I know, you don't need one. But I didn't want to hassle with the whole birth certificate thing. It wasn't even for diving.

Thomas

 

[PK]

I have one because I travel to Europe often for vacation and for business frequently.

I'm surprized about the 20%. I wonder if that is for all ages. A lot of kids don't require passports. I didn't get mine until I was 22.

 

[Spectre]

I had to get my passport when I was 26, for a business trip to Ireland. I've been over to Europe every year since then... on business; But I actually prefer to do my personal travel inside the US.

 

[miked]

As all of our out-of-country travel had been to dive locations that did not require a passport ( photo I D and birth certificate were sufficient), we never got one, but we kept saying we should ("procrastinators r us".)
After 9/11, with all the increased (??) airport security, we got them. It was so simple to do, that I feel really dumb about waiting so long.
Mike

 

[Jarhead]

I have had mine for about 5 years now. Back when I did most of my traveling, a military ID card was enough.