spiralbound.net » tour http://spiralbound.net my digital notebook Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:01:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Cool Passport Visas http://spiralbound.net/2006/11/17/cool-passport-visas http://spiralbound.net/2006/11/17/cool-passport-visas#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:26:52 +0000 cliff http://spiralbound.net/2006/11/17/cool-passport-visas/ My passport has expired, and I’m renewing it by mail. You have to send your existing passport to them as proof of identity, and parting with it got me thinking about how cool the stamps that you get at various ports of entry around the world are. I understand that when you renew your passport by mail, they cancel your expired one and return it to you, but they don’t mention that in writing anywhere, so I decided to error on the side of caution and scan the visas I have so that I don’t loose them should the passport agency not return my original passport.

The first one was stamped when I left Boston, MA, again, when I arrived at London Heathrow, and finally when I entered Malaga, Spain. Most of our time that trip was spent in Malaga, and I have to say that I would love to live there. Parties all night, and everyone takes a nap at 11:00 AM. Need I say more?
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The second one is my visas from Tanger Morocco. At the time, you could not just go into Morocco on your own. You had to be a part of a designated tour group, which was really just a way for the locals to coordinate their efforts to try to sell you things as the group made its way down the streets.

As we were on the ferry to cross the Straight of Gibraltar, our tour guide, a man who was a little sketchy looking, but spoke about six languages, came by with a trash bag and asked everyone to toss in their passports. OK, I thought, this pretty much runs counter to everything I’ve been told about how to care for my passport, but what the heck… I’m going to Africa. He came back a little later with my passport and the correct visas, but it still had me shaken up for a bit. Nobody wants to end up and the US embassy in Tanger having to explain why you had given your passport to a complete stranger.
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]]> http://spiralbound.net/2006/11/17/cool-passport-visas/feed 6 36.7196236 -4.4198942 Rainy Day Stupid Museum Tours http://spiralbound.net/2004/10/12/rainy-day-stupid-museum-tours http://spiralbound.net/2004/10/12/rainy-day-stupid-museum-tours#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:10:32 +0000 cliff http://spiralbound.net/?p=34 Back in September, Casey, Will and I were getting pretty tired of all the rainy days this summer, so we decided to entertain ourselves by touring the strangest museums Massachusetts has to offer. Our first stop was the Plastics Museum in Leominster, where we learned all about the history of plastic, and explored the how plastics can be used. Will even rolled up his sleeves and built a fort out of plastic logs.

Next we made our way to the Museum of Bad Art in Dedham. It was a little hard to find, since it’s in the basement of the town community theater, but once we found the building, getting to the museum was just a matter of following the signs to the bathroom. You’ll know you’re there when you you’re in a 15′ by 30′ room with one, flickering fluorescent light, some really bad art, and the ugliest rug you’ve ever seen


The Plastics Museum
The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA)
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