Thread 2821464

Which year was your passport issued?
How many stamps do you have?
Most interesting pages?

My passport was issued in 2020 and has 27 stamps, 15 of those being entry stamps. The first page has stamps from:

>Colombia
>Mexico
>Philippines
>Taiwan
>UAE

>>2821464 (OP)
Europe is so annoying for passport stamp collectors due to the EU. If you live in the US, good luck getting any from Eastern Europe. They only stamp the country you enter and leave, which will often just be a connecting flight airport you barely spent time in

Aren't most countries working away from stamps?

recently lost my 2022 passport (while abroad too) that was up to 13 entry stamps + 4 entry stickers (2 japan 2 korea) + 1 full page visa (cambodia) + however many exit stamps that was (cant remember)
it hurts so much...

well i also have something like 1000 eki stamps (+ the tourist ones at museums, shops, etc) from japan, korea, taiwan and china
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eki_stamp

>>2821470
Schengen stamps are also ugly as shit. I'm happy though because they stamped me on the "Endorsements & Special Mentions" page, which otherwise might not have gotten used.

>>2821471
UAE let me exit using the autogate, so no exit stamp. Every time I've tried the autogate in other countries (like Malaysia), I've been denied.

>>2821470
This. I went to Europe but only got a stamp from Milano Malpensa.

>>2821471
I didn't get a stamp when I entered the US last year.

>>2821471
I just spent a month in Indonesia, entry and exit Jakarta. No stamp. Felt very weird. But appreciate saving pages.

>>2821464 (OP)
Bong here. I always get the bigger 54 page passport. Lasts me about 5 or 6 years only. I travel permenently. Grateful for the extra pages though

>>2821649
Do you get visa-free entry to ID?
>>2821651
Whoa, that sounds like a lot of full-page Cambodian visas.
My overseas travels cover 26 of the past 67 months. Domestic travels cover an additional 21 months, and work makes up the remainder at 20 months. I'm pretty happy with this ratio, though going forward there won't be any more domestic travels, as I no longer own a motor vehicle.

>>2821464 (OP)
Singapore passport here, so every relevant country is visa free and i just walk through the autogate everywhere except china.
I get a stamp sometimes in 3rd world countries when the autogate is broken though

When I lived in Europe I made it a point to go to all the microstates and get stamps if I could. Andora, Vatican, San Marino, Monaco, Luxemberg. sure I'm forgetting some more.

>>2822189
>Do you get visa-free entry to ID?
No. $30. You get the VoA by email after you go through immigration. I'm taking a couple of years off and have no check-in luggage so I'm hopping on planes a lot

>>2821482
>1000 eki stamps
Jesus Christ. And I only have the 24 of the Yamanote Line, the stamps from the three views of Japan, the stamps on my Mt. Fuji Pilgrimage Staff from the Yoshida Trail and maybe of some other places here and there. Your dedication to stamp collecting is very admirable

I have been moving away from keepsakes generally. The more I think about the whole process, the crazier it seems.
I don’t need to prove to myself or anyone else that I visited a place, no one has ever asked for evidence.
However, I can’t shake the attachment to the idea of bragging about ‘my number’. I want to be able to say that I’ve visited 50 countries or 50 world cities, maybe all the world-class cities.
To me, the more I travel the less cool it seems in concept, the more cringe it seems to do things like take photos or send post cards or hold onto local currency.
“Rich people dont look at photos to remember a vacation, they just go back there”
I say all this with no cynicism, just dispassion. I love the world and love seeing new places, I just think it’s dumb when other people do it, which makes me wonder why I am blind to the idea that it is also dumb when I do it.

>>2822391
It's not the number of countries so much as the first-hand geographical knowledge I've gained by traveling - which requires more overland travel and fewer international flights.

The ultimate travel flex is not name-dropping places and bragging about luxury - any LARPer can do that - but being able to provide detailed information and experiences from a thousand different places you've been to.

>>2823087
Time is the most valuable resource. I've been to 80 countries but worked in 15, spent 3 months Kenya, 3 months Ugandan, 6 months Brazil etc. This is the biggest dick of travelling.

My dick is massive

>>2822279
i never bothered to get all of the stamps on 1 line but i did get off 1 stop early/ late many times to get more stamps instead of reusing the same stations. i think i have around 500-600 from japan. taiwan is a good place to get loads of stamps, the tourist info center at jiufen has like 28 stamps in it alone, they're like overexcited children over there about stamps

china has quite a lot too and overdoes it i.e. many places you go to and get 5-10 stamps from. many of the souvenir/book kind of stores have shit loads in but require you to purchase something in store. they even have different tiers of what you purchase, i.e. they'll only let you use some stamps if you purchase the book they specifically sell for it and that kind of shit. completely over the top but many have cool designs

this is my stamp book collection, never really liked any i found in stores in japan, but you can find many nice ones on amazon or whatever (top row has taiwan, taiwan, empty but bought in forbidden palace in bejing, china, korea)

>>2823088
You've managed to make your travels pay their own way? Interesting, very few people have figured out how to do this apart from working their home-country job remotely. Do you work legally or illegally?

>>2823098
Just started off with TEFL and no degree then got a B.Ed then M.Ed (online). Not working anymore. Just travelling

>>2823088
I don't want to commodify my time. It is spent however I plan to spend it, which usually involves leisure with very few and specific daily tasks (like buying breakfast the night before)

>>2821464 (OP)
Anyone else disappointed that they're not stamping passports any more? Been to three foreign countries so far this summer and none of them put a stamp in. FFS last time I didn't even have to take my passport out when reentering the US, they used facial recognition to decide I was me and was reentering after a ten-day trip.

>>2822391
>“Rich people dont look at photos to remember a vacation, they just go back there”
Unfortunately even the rich can't buy a time machine. Some things you're not going back to.

>>2823099
About to do TEFL shit. Does it truly matter if I have a college degree? Similarly, you ever done a totally online service that doesn't give a fuck where you are? Dream is to work anywhere I want without them giving a fuck, even if its for less than 10 USD an hour (minimum where I am is over 20).

>>2826293
I've been stamped every place I've been, except Korea a few years ago. What places aren't stamping?

>>2826822
Most places require a college degree. Only a few countries don't. Those that don't still prioritize hiring of those that have degrees.

>>2826849
>What places aren't stamping?
Malaysia has fast track gates for certain passport holders (five eyes, some nearby countries)
The last few times I've been here, I just scan my passport, then walk through a face recognition gate. There's a secondary customs check but that takes five seconds (no stamp)
I got off the plane and like ten minutes later I'm getting in a taxi.
Most of that ten minutes is waiting for luggage.
It's unbelievably quick. They don't even check for duty free or anything.
I guess certain passport holders are super low risk for Malaysia

>>2821464 (OP)
My current American passport was issued in 2021, and it’s still practically naked—I think it has just fourteen or fifteen stamps in it so far. I’ve traveled with it many dozens of times, but I was based in, and mostly traveling within, Europe for the last six years, and so have passed through almost no passport control points. I’ve got a few Turkish stamps, a few EU/Schengen area re-entry stamps (from CDG, ZRH, BSL, and AMS, maybe one or two others), and two Irish stamps like the one pictured here—I thought it was classy and rather old-fashioned of them to take up half a page. The UK used an oversized entry stamp for a while, too, but sometime just before I got this passport they’d replaced it with electronic gates.

Heading back to Asia for the first time in some years in the spring, so I look forward to filling a bit more space. My previous passport was just about full.

I have an EU entry stamp into Greenland which is kind of a tough one to get. I also have an entry stamp for New Zealand from 2021 which is almost impossible-mode for a foreigner.

It’ll be sad to this book go in a couple years.

I have a coomer passport full of Philippines, Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, and some Malaysia entries

>>2826854
Malaysia is surprisingly liberated when you're a tourist who doesn't concern himself with politics. A cold 660 mL beer at a restaurant is 20 ringgit. A cold 500 mL beer at 99 Speedmart is 10.90 ringgit. I'm currently paying much more in the US on both counts. These prices are valid everywhere in the country there is a Chinese drinking place.

>>2826988
They usually mail the old one back to you with your re-issue, right? There might be a hole punched in it, but you can definitely save it as a souvenir if you don't want to worry about the possibility of identity theft from these surplus documents laying around in random storage lockers.

>>2821464 (OP)
Share pics of Colombia and Mexico.

>>2827267
I did not have a phone on my Colombia trip, only a $30 tablet.
Already shared dozens of Mexico photos...
Picrel is Cascada El Chorrito near Hidalgo, Tamaulipas. Lots of bikers on big Harleys on that Sunday afternoon. Mexican bikers are very easygoing dudes, you feel safer around them then you do around the guys in pickup trucks blasting narcocorridos.

The payment slip for a citation I got from the Veracruz traffic police. At the time I could've sworn I didn't run a yellow light, but maybe I did.

DO NOT POST PHOTOS OF YOUR PASSPORT ONLINE

How fucking stupid can people be, it's like posting pictures of your credit card online. Mods please delete this thread before some idiot is the victim of identity theft.
Most passports contain personal information on every single page, every single one of your passport pages probably contains the same information as the front page.

>>2828091
There's literally a thousand scans and pictures of my passport data page in the hands of random people all over the world. You have no expectation to information privacy as a traveler. And no, my visa pages do not contain personal information.

>>2828091
take a xanax, not everybody is after you. on another note, passport stamps will soon be a thing of the past and all that shit will be digital thank god. I need my passport to be thinner.

>>2828118
I saw a guy with a passport that was less than half the size of a regular passport. That would be so much easier to carry in a pocket than a full-sized book, especially if you are not wearing cargo pants with side pockets.

>>2828118
I hope the future is not gonna be a fully intangible digital passport, but rather maybe passport eligibility/data that'll be implemented in our ID cards?
Like if the ID card had a little stamp/logo somewhere indicating it had passport data, and that a machine could scan and read the encrypted data on it and see digital visa stamps from previous travels and proof of ownership by the passport/ID holder.

>>2821651
The thicker passports are annoying, I regret getting one. Whenever I try to slide my phone or wallet into my pocket, I end up colliding with it. My next passport will be regular size. In the future, I think all passport books will be replaced by cards that store your visas/stamps on a chip.

>>2829808
You always have to push your passport flat against your leg to get something else in the same pocket, or risk damaging the pages. Or else, be a Cargo Chad and keep your passport in a velcro side pocket.

>>2829828
nah

>>2826293
it depends on the country. ireland is still stampin' i can attest to that

>>2826293
>>2830577
don't know why the UK doesnt, at least not Heathrow airport

>>2829913
>no taste
What a faggoty insult. Men dress for practicality, women and faggots dress to be perceived as desirable. Back pockets should not be used in a crowd, plus your ass sweat soaks into anything kept in them. This leaves two front pockets for four items (bandana, wallet, phone, passport). Not enough space, especially with the GAY clothing manufacturers who want your junk to be printing on your trousers and thus equip them with ridiculous women's sized pockets.

>>2831661
Does the UK even have borders?

>>2831818
Incel take

>>2829808
yeah i'd much prefer a card. fuck these books

>>2821464 (OP)
First passport was issued in 2012 and filled up within seven or eight years. Second passport was issued in, I think, 2019--I paid a little extra for additional pages and am probably about halfway through. Haven't traveled in about two years now, though, so I expect this one will last until its expiration.