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It’s a trying process–applying for visas

June 9, 2017 | Stories From The Road

Good grief! Applying online for visas is totally frustrating. The websites are so fussy. It took us two days of scanning and rescanning documents to upload to the Brazilian and Bolivian embassies, the Brazilian embassy being the most sensitive. They have not less than 1 gazillion strict rules to follow. Totally exhausting. Now we have to put our passports in the mail and hope for the best–like that the person who opens the envelope has had a morning coffee and thinks the world is a wonderful place and loves her or his job. Thant would be a good start.

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Joseph Koppi is a travel writer with over 40 years of writing and communications experience in both the media and corporate arenas. He currently treks the world, writing about his adventures in foreign lands and with the amazing people he encounters. Read More

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"Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." —Ibn Battuta

Boomertrekker.com is the cave wall on which I try to etch the stories and pictures of my travel experiences. You will find stories of setting out to go one place, but arriving at another; of finding, quite by accident, experiences that I could not have anticipated; of meeting and becoming friends with people whose language I cannot speak. Sometimes you will find me paralyzed and out of my comfort zone, as I was in Cambodia when I regretfully let pass my opportunity to eat a cricket. At other times, I hope you marvel, as I have, at the intelligence and ingenuity and inventiveness of ancient peoples everywhere. These are the stories I tell here. They are the stories of my travels to foreign lands in which I am the foreigner. Read More

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