Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Harvest Moon<\/p>\n
Visas.\u00a0 All visas all the time.\u00a0 Got a fluttery batch of e-mails and phone messages, all received after Travisa’s office’s had closed.\u00a0 OMG.\u00a0 We won’t get the documents to you in time.\u00a0 OMG. Solved by reminding them that we sail on Oct. 16th, not Sept. 16th.\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 All better now.<\/p>\n
Mark and Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 A police clearance popped up as a new piece of paper.\u00a0 How to get it?\u00a0 Lots of opinions.\u00a0 FBI background check?\u00a0 BCI state level clearance.\u00a0 Will this torpedo the application?\u00a0 Looked like it for awhile, then a phone, again, to Travisa in D.C.<\/p>\n
A local police clearance?\u00a0 Plenty good enough.\u00a0 Mark now has a Good Neighbor certificate from the Anoka County Sheriff stating that he has committed no crime since he got here.\u00a0 Good to know.<\/p>\n
In in the interim Mark had discovered that the Saudi Embassy closed this week to celebrate Eid, the end of Ramadan.\u00a0 But. Travisa again.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 We can get it done in time.\u00a0 Send us the material by Friday and we’ll get it done.<\/p>\n
A series of this’s and that’s, frustrating, but not impossible.<\/p>\n
International travel, all fun, all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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