Passport needed?

[bluemagoo]

I just got back from Maui, and boy do they hate Americans over there. And the exchange rate was just horrible, the average dinner for two was nearly $80 USD. My next vacation is going to keep me in the USA.

Yeah, it's 120 puka shells per one USD, the bone thru my nose makes it tough to shave, the grass skirt itches like crazy, and "brah, us guys talk dakine pidgin ladat"...

Seriously, I can see needing a passport if for some bizzare reason your flight mutates into an international one -- maybe bouncing to Mexico or Canada and coming back or maybe a stopover has you change planes from a domestic to a foreign-flagged carrier (?). (Canadians are supposed to be exempt but they still have to prove citizenship which means a passport anyway -- bureaucratic double-talk at its best.)

 

[mike_s]

passport is good for 1 year pass expiration,,,if it was me i would keep it valid.

Actually, some countries won't allow you past imigration if your
passport is about to expire, so I wouldn't try traveling out of the
US with a passport that is expired cause of the problems it might cause.

passport not needed in the carribean, jamaica, bvi etc. i cant see why it would be needed in usa.

Well, for the next 6 months you don't need a passport to travel most islands
in the Caribbean, but they are required for these islands starting January 2006.

New Passport laws due to Homeland Security will require a passport
for all travel to Caribbean air travel starting January 2006.

See http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html and http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2224.html

 

[kent_1848]

Well, just for everyones info, last weekend I went from Kansas to Missouri to Oklahoma and back to Kansas, and didn't need my passport once! :rofl:

Holy Cow man take a geography class

 

[ScubaTexan]

Well, just for everyones info, last weekend I went from Kansas to Missouri to Oklahoma and back to Kansas, and didn't need my passport once! :rofl:

If you're coming down here to the Republic of Texas, you'd better have it with you...

 

[kent_1848]

Well, I was in Austin before the big crackdown I guess. Will I have to use it all the time, or only if I don't say Y'all???

 

[ScubaTexan]

Well, I was in Austin before the big crackdown I guess. Will I have to use it all the time, or only if I don't say Y'all???

I don't say Y'all, and they haven't kicked me out yet....LOL

 

[gkndivebum]

I often find myself having to explain to geographically-challenged mainland dwellers
that Hawaii is the next state west of California, and is part of the US.

You don't need a passport to visit the 50th state if you're a US Citizen or a PRA.

Sheesh.

 

[Damselfish]

I'm heading to Maui in september... I've heard that I need my passport thanks to new security measures.

Do I? My old one expired...

I'm coming from the continental US.

The new measures have to do with foreign countries where it wasn't required before, like a bunch of places in the carribean where you could get away with a birth cert. Not within the US.

Why not get the passport renewed anyway in case you need it for something else, some places don't accept if they're within 6 months of expiration. (And I guess they're easier to renew when they're not too far expired, I think I read a sign waiting at the post office the other day, it had to be expired less than a year for the simple mail renewal, or something like that.)

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

If Hawaii is part of the USofA then what the heck is that language they're speaking????

 

[KrisB]

If Hawaii is part of the USofA then what the heck is that language they're speaking????

Whatever it is, it's closer to English than the language they're speaking in Texas and Georgia.