Just Passing through??? Don’t forget your passport.
photo by Jay McGillicuddy Aruba sunset
Did you know that over 70 million US citizens have a valid passport which is just about a quarter of the eligible population? Don’t be one of those stuck with out a passport when the new regulations take place! Imagine the crunch as everyone rushes to get one… besides getting a passport takes time this day and age especially with all the Home Land Security issues.
If you don’t already have your passport you still have some time before the new requirements take effect.
Jan 23, 2007 is the date that we’ll all need to show a valid passport to enter the United States when traveling by air.
That includes arriving from destinations like Canada, Mexico and my favorite Happy Island located in the Caribbean!
It looks like we have a little more time before we’ll need to show a passport when entering the United States by land or sea. Estimate time frame for that is sometime in January 2008.
Want a head start and an application?
Questions about the new requirements?
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Great pic, Monika!! I bet you have a stockpile of those gorgeous shots - show us more!!!
Ann
We have a ton of them. Jay took it at a restaurant called the Flying Fishbone in Aruba. That was our table...right on the waters edge.
thank you, i'm going to pass this on.
ps mine is expired, haven't left for awhile.
happy thanksgiving
You're welcome Joanne.
Happy Thanksgiving to you.
So how are the RV Roads to Aruba? :)
Great photo, makes me want some wine!
Kristal
I've got a couple of bottles ready to open,..come on up!
I don't think I could afford the price to float my RV to Aruba...wouldn't be a bad idea if I could though. I love having my own bed with me.
Do you suppose I need my passport updated to get into Florida now? ;-)
That is a beautiful photo.
Haven't been to Aruba, but have been to it's neighboor Curacao.
We usually go about this time of year so I'm missing Aruba right now. I was looking into visiting Curacao...how was it?
Monika, it was so long ago I hardly remember. Very windy, and I got an awful sunburn on my shins so that walking was painful.
Have you ever been to the BVI?? Tortola is a wonderful place to vacation.
OMG Monika you are holding a lobster you have no idea how jealous that makes me; moreso than if you were kissing Al Pacino (well that would be a close one)
Reading your blogs just takes me back to my youth; and the photos are fabulous. Now Aruba is someplace I have not been yet. But my passport got updated last year when I took a trip across the pond to England. In fact, I think I need to blog on that sometime lol.
LOL...Carole. You must be a lobster lover! I miss Aruba...love it there but this year we made the decision to go to Florida for a month in February with our motor home.
Ginger..On our honeymoon we rented a 44 foot sailboat and bare boated with another couple...no crew just us. We sailed the USVI and BVI...loved it. By far our best trip, We took a ton of photos!
Monika, We honeymooned on Tortola BVI and USVI too!
Monika, while some people sit and crave chips or chocolate, I dream of lobster. What can I say. I used to teach Social Studies and I still had to google and look up Tortola! Thanks for helping me learn lolol
Gingers Did you by any chance go to Jost Van-dyke? We cleared customs there and what an adventure we had ...custom officers forced Jay (my Hubby) to take them out to a Sailboat they wanted to search for drugs via our little dinghy...these officers had big guns and we had just arrived after sailing the USVI...it was frightening and as I watched from shore I was praying the kid in the boat didn't have any drugs on board! Imagine someone forcing your husband to take them out to a suspected drug boat...Yikes!
Carole...I love lobster!!! But I'll tell you Lobster down in the Caribbean stinks ..actually I didn't like it in Florida either...Nothing like Maine Lobster and Steamers!!! Tortola was awesome! I think we liked Virgin Gorda the best.
No Monika, Did not go through Jost.
We took the ferry across from St. Thomas to Tortola.
Carole, Lobtser was my favorite meal as a kid and most of my adult life.
Whenever our family went out to dinner I ordered the steamed or baked stuffed Maine lobster with about a pound of butter for dipping. It was a given that's what I would have never anything else
For years I used to have cravings for lobsters like you.
Also loved fried clam sandwiches. In New England we have the whole clams, not clam strips.
We called them fried clams with the bellies.
We took a trip to Maine 2 years ago and for I had a fried clam sandwich and some more to go every day for 6 days for lunch.
Monika I think the place was called Mike's clam shack??
I still crave them now.. Yum Yum,
I lost my taste for Lobster say in the past 10 years... don't know why.
There was a shack on the way up the coast of New England....I wanna call it Woodside? COULD be wrong it's been many years; I had my first steamed lobster ON the beach one fine August day while the sun was setting; I thought I died and went to heaven; and I don't know how I have lived in Cleveland this long (nine years) without access to them lol. Oh I also crave Maryland Blue Crabs.
For a while, you could order lobsters shipped the same day from Anthony's in Boston. My ex hubby and I did it once....it was delicious but a tad extravagant!
Ginger and Carole....Mike's Clam Shack is still in business and is very popular. We play on the Maine coast often...with our motor home we can just get up and go anywhere southern Maine and still be close enough if work calls. We usually "camp"...I find it hard to call it camping since my motor home has a washer/dryer, tile flrs, 2 tv's, solid cherry cabinets and more comforts than home...anyway we usually camp on the beach in NH for weeks at a time...Thank god for technology that makes it all possible. So lobster and Steamers...although we usually buy fresh from the docks and cook ourselves...is a big part of our life.
I can't figure out where Woodside is Carole...could it be in Massachusetts somewhere? I priced out shipping lobster to my mom-in-law in Florida last year for Christmass and near fell over.
Expensive is right....oh but they are so yummy!!
I've been googling; and mind you, Monika, my memories come from the seventies! I am pretty sure it was on the beach in Essex and could definitely be wrong about the name Woodside. Maybe one of our Massachusetts Rainers can help out. Or maybe it's gone!
I did find this, which may or may not be what I am thinking of. The 'shack' I remember was big enough for one or two employees to be inside doing the steaming or frying.:
J.T. Farnham's
Essex, Mass.
Clam fans refer to this stretch of Cape Ann as "Clam Alley" because it's home to so many restaurants known for fried clams (dug at the nearby Ipswich flats). Among them: Farnham's, housed in a nondescript marsh-side cottage. "Fried seafood rules, from haddock and scallops to oysters, and of course - just like the big yellow sign says - 'Farnham's Famous Clams,' " Bougerol says. 978-768-6643.
Brown's Seabrook Lobster Pound
Ahhh..Browns Yummy!!!!