If you’re already a client, you will know that I recently went to Portland to earn my NMT affiliation. I almost didn’t make it there.
11 pm Saturday night, as I am packing my things for Portland the next day, I grab my passport out of its drawer and take a casual flip through. This is when I realize it’s 6 months expired. *Cue Panic.
It turns out that there IS a process for getting an emergency passport IF you meet the criteria and jump through a multitude of bureaucratic hoops. Sunday morning I went flying to Burnaby to get a passport photo, and they had no one there to take it. Apparently people don’t get passport photos on the weekend? Luckily their other location had someone. I made it to my first contract, cancelled my afternoon clients, went flying down to Surrey Central to meet the emergency staff at the passport office, and drove across the border at 2 pm with the ink still drying on my newly printed passport. Whew!
AND after a full week in Portland I have even more tricks up my musical sleeve!