Passports

George and I are getting passports.  I have only crossed a US border once before.  We crossed about 30 miles over the Canadian border.  Yeah.  Big stuff!
Guess where we have thought of going!  Canada!!  You now need a passport to cross.  Even to go maybe 30 miles over, see a waterfall, maybe a really big lake and come back. 
Homeland Security would have us believe Canada is harboring large amounts of domestic terrorists. 
Hmmm.  Maybe it is the other way around.  I am watching MSNBC.  Lots of talk about Cheney, the CIA under the Bush admin and even Sarah Palin in some wierd way connected to zombies.  Didn't really catch the full story on that one, but I did have to roll my eyes heavenward.  The woman's career is over (I hope) and to even bring on a remotely national scene is just plain silly. 
I digress.

Back to the passports. 
I have to have my picture taken.  I will go to passport heaven (Walgreens) and purchase a photo.  First week in September we will go to the courthouse in Great Bend and take the next steps (money in hand) to get the little book allowing us to cross those imaginary borders.
I don't know that we will ever do huge amounts of international traveling.  But we could!  That is the whole point.  We could if we wanted to.  The choice is there and it is ours.  That is a very cool freedom.