What is the very first date stamped in your first passport?
Jan 11th, 2007, 08:09 AM
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spring of 1976....i was ahigh school senior and it was our spanish class trip to spain....toured madrid, sevilla, torremolinos and many other small towns. we travelled on a bus with kids from another high school.
Jan 11th, 2007, 08:24 AM
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My entrance visa to the US was stamped in 1989. Didn't have a passport then - the USSR government stripped us off the citizenship as a family of traitors going to a capitalist country. As funny as it sounds NOW, I'm not kdding!
Jan 11th, 2007, 08:43 AM
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Live in USA and had traveled to Canada several times but no passport needed at the time. First passport I got was in 1990 and the stamp came from London Heathrow in early August of that year. Went on a "tour" with a friend to London, Brighton, Stratford, etc. I was beside myself with joy to be there finally after dreaming about crossing the pond for so long. Remember seeing the tomb of Elizabeth I at Westminster Abbey...was like finally visiting the grave of an old friend that I'd known forever. (Loved reading about the Tudors).
Passport photo was HIDEOUS. Was so glad when I could get a new one in 2000. New picture is nothing special but a lot better than the first one!
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Passport photo was HIDEOUS. Was so glad when I could get a new one in 2000. New picture is nothing special but a lot better than the first one!
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Jan 11th, 2007, 09:04 AM
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Hi flygirl! Longtime?
I do not have my first passport but do know that it must have been stamped with an 'exit' stamp from South Africa and an entrance stamp in Tel Aviv, Israel.
I had never been overseas in my life and here I was travelling with a husband and two(nearly) year old son!
And believe me in those days our flight was 18 hours! After that breezing through that, the whole of Europe was easy!
I do not have my first passport but do know that it must have been stamped with an 'exit' stamp from South Africa and an entrance stamp in Tel Aviv, Israel.
I had never been overseas in my life and here I was travelling with a husband and two(nearly) year old son!
And believe me in those days our flight was 18 hours! After that breezing through that, the whole of Europe was easy!
Jan 11th, 2007, 09:43 AM
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April 19, 1974, Chicago from the Philippines. First time I left the US to go to a foreign country, August 15, 1990, Paris, France. The ticket was free. A bank in Honolulu was giving away free airline tickets if you open a savings account. Since then, I have been fortunate to be back 28 times to Europe. I just got back from London and I am counting the days till I can go back.
Jan 11th, 2007, 09:54 AM
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October 18, 1990 at Barajas Airport in Madrid. This was my first trip over the pond. My DH and I went to Spain to find my roots: we headed north to the Basque Country, found cousins in Pamplona and then to Lleida to visit more cousins. We then took an overnight train, Barcelona to Paris and did a wine tour of France.
This trip started it all: our travel fever.
MY
This trip started it all: our travel fever.
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Jan 11th, 2007, 10:07 AM
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I only got my first passport six years ago and that was for three weeks in India. So I have my ten year visa and first stamp from India. I have since been trying to travel abroad from the US every year but my kids think I should pay their college tuition instead. Also, you didn't need a passport to travel in and out of the Caribbean, Canada, or Mexico. Times have changed.
Jan 11th, 2007, 10:12 AM
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My first trips out of the US were to Mexico but passports weren't required.
My first passport was stamped on July 3, 1980 at LHR. I took a 5 week trip for teens and we visited 8 countries between the UK and Italy. What a magical time, being a young girl seeing Europe for the first time.
My first passport was stamped on July 3, 1980 at LHR. I took a 5 week trip for teens and we visited 8 countries between the UK and Italy. What a magical time, being a young girl seeing Europe for the first time.
Jan 11th, 2007, 10:14 AM
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Frankfurt, June 12, 1975 - first trip to europe with my boyfriend. I was 19, we had 5 weeks and rented a tiny VW bug and, staying in pensions and B&Bs, did a circle through France, across northern Spain, the Riviera, northern tip of Italy and back up to Germany to return from Frankfurt (we had super discount tickets and couldn't do open jaws).
The boyfriend didn't last that long (8 years) but my love of europe - and road trips has only grown.
The boyfriend didn't last that long (8 years) but my love of europe - and road trips has only grown.
Jan 11th, 2007, 10:17 AM
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June, 1955,...I was on my mother's passport. She wouldn't fly so we traveled from Montreal to Liverpool on the second half of the maiden voyage of the Ivernia, a Cunard Line vessel, to be shown off to my grandparents back in England. It took 10 days and my mother was deathly seasick the whole time. I was, at 4, adopted by the stewards and had a ball. That voyage gave me a thrist for travel that remains unquenchable.
Jan 11th, 2007, 10:27 AM
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Can't find my first passport, but it was June 1969 at Heathrow. We were newly married and school teachers. That was back when school started after Labor Day, and we had seventy some days to tour Europe and get back home. Purchased a car to use, and then brought the car back on the QEII. We were on QEII's second crossing. That trip was my first airplane trip and ocean cruise, and we are still married and traveling.
