The (Mostly) Useless U.S. Passport Card

I picked up one of those new passport cards a couple years ago. I was told it could be used to travel to Canada or Mexico, and doubles as another wallet sized ID in the event I misplace my license. Compelling enough, so I added one back in 2010 when I renewed my passport. Yesterday I flew to Vancouver with my Dad to visit my brother, who’s here studying at the Vancouver Film School. I was ready to use my passport card for the first time. It seemed like a good opportunity. I was flying out of White Plains, New York, as I was at a friend’s wedding in Connecticut the night before, so I packed up all of stuff Saturday

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Small Airplanes

I apologize for the slow blogging. My dad recently pointed out that I haven’t posted anything in over two weeks, and if I keep this up, some of my readers (him) might stop checking it quite so often. Fair point. It’s been a fairly busy, and exciting, couple of weeks. I finished school in late May, went on a trip to Nicaragua with my girlfriend Laura, and then graduated this past week. I plan to get into a better blogging routine once the summer gets rolling. Anyways, in the meantime, here’s a short clip I put together of a flight Laura and I took in Nicaragua. We were flying from Big Corn Island to Managua in a small 12 seater

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