Mutant Passport

I hit a traveler's milestone this year. Between my student visa, my visa for when Grace was a student, my India visa and my work visa, plus all my stamps for coming in and out of the US and UK, plus a few more stamps, I was running short of passport pages. My book was down to two blank pages, and when you get below four, you can apply for extra passport pages. Which I did.

I got my new and improved passport back today. It's a mutant.

Inside my passport, they have grafted 24 new pages onto the original 24. However, since my passport was issued in 2003, they've changed the design of them. My passport looked like this (without the stamps):

The new ones are much more glamorous, depicting great scenes of America on each page. Here's an example:


So now I have a half blue and business passport, half George Bush cowboy passport. The pages are different sizes too, so even glancing at the thing you can clearly see it's got half pages of one size, half of another. It's my new mutant passport.