Comments on: 160th Friday Blog Roundup

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:34:47 +0000

That is the very reason I haven’t renewed my passport. For our honeymoon, we took my dream vacation to Italy and it breaks my heart to think about giving up those stamps.

Funny to think, the thing I love so much it a major barrier in keeping me from going again.

By: Erica

Erica — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:06:59 +0000

I am so with you on the travel thing. I studied abroad in both Spain and Italy. I want to continue to see many more countries. I have been to Morocco, the Greek Isles. I was very sad that I had to renew my passport and lose all my stamps! I am trying to go to Ireland next year. I would never want to forget the semester I lived in Siena. That was the most wonderful exerience of my young life. I came back a different person.

By: Another Dreamer

Another Dreamer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:25:18 +0000

Oh my… it’s so weird about your candle holder, the glass on mine broke too! It was like 15 minutes after I lit it, and I heard a popping noise, looked up, and it had cracked and broke around it’s entire circumference.

I realize mine probably broke because the glass was cold, and the wick was too close to it, but it still made me wonder.

By: Battynurse

Battynurse — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:06:59 +0000

I don’t actually even have a passport. I’ve only been to Canada once or twice and other than that have never been out of the US. Kind of sad to say that. Part of me would really love to travel to various places but part of me is absolutely appalled at the idea of 20 some hour plane rides with an ass the size of mine. 3 hour plane rides make me sore. Someday. Maybe.

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:35:45 +0000

Nothing important – just wanted to say that your candle holder probably broke due to your candle burning too hot. It usually happens because the candlemakers used inexpensive wax. Better wax will burn cooler and longer so maybe you used different candles this time?

By: Lavender Luz

Lavender Luz — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:29:39 +0000

I truly mourned when I had to turn in my old passport, the one we had to get extra pages for at an embassy in Vienna. I felt like I got sent back to Go without anyone knowing I’d lived on Baltic Avenue, Marvin Gardens, Boardwalk, and other colorful places.

By: Rae

Rae — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:27:44 +0000

Two trips I would hate to have erased from my passport memory would be the 2 months I spent in Russia living with a Russian family as a foreign exchange student. That trip really made me thankful for what we have here in the US. I would also hate to erase my trip to St. Lucia this past June because I eloped there with my husband and we had a wonderful weddingmoon.

One trip I wouldn’t mind erasing would be my trip to Hawaii. I married really young and my ex-husband and I went there on our honeymoon. I would love to have new memories of Hawaii.

By: Half of a Duo, Raising a Duo

Half of a Duo, Raising a Duo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:45:18 +0000

Well… I travel relatively frequently overseas as does the DH. They swipe the passport now and barely stamp it. It depends on the country.

There is no journey that I would like to look at through new eyes and go back other than one.

My surrogacy journey.

I would never regret the boys in a million years.

I DO regret, deeply, the fact that our surrogate got sucked into an anti-traditional surrogate’s grasp and group, and treated the journey as her own and didn’t share. She was disrespectful and rude to me and the DH. It was “her body, her baby”. I didn’t post that on my blog. Instead, when she began this nonsense, I suspended my blog.

I deprived myself of writing of moments I was thinking and feeling that were joyful. Because of her behavior, not mine. And not knowing what was going on with her… I had to try and rise above and take the high road.

If I could re-journey anywhere, it would be, a new journey with the same boys, and a surrogate (the same) who did not connect with crazy people that heavily influenced her in a most negative way. To this day, to the point where, we have had to sever ties with her, because of the disrespect and marginalization….

By: Hevel

Hevel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:44:30 +0000

Funny thing. I only ever use my Israeli passport to enter and leave Israel. Any other travel is done on my Hungarian passport. Very rarely I use my Irish one (when Hungary still needed a visa for the US it came handy). My Hungarian passport is expiring in 6 months. It has ZERO stamps in it. I got it not long after Hungary joined the EU, and well, even before Schengen took effect–and even in non-Schengen countries–I never received a stamp in it.

If I could, I’d love to experience Utah again and forget all about the trauma of Brigham Young University. I’d love to see Salt Lake City through the eye of the tourist!

The one memory I’d hate to lose would be my trip to Israel when I was 13, with my first time at the Kotel. It was my first time reconnecting with my roots after 10 years.

By: Jendeis

Jendeis — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:35:37 +0000

I think I’d redo my honeymoon in Venice and not be seasick this time. Oh, and we’d go see more of the sights. And I would physically prevent JD from taking me on a f-ing 3-hour boat tour to an uninhabited island with no food for absolutely no reason so that I almost killed him when we got back because none of the restaurants were serving food beacause it was between lunch and dinner and apparently all restaurants close at that time and I was very hungry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m hungry…