Wednesday morning I left Shenzhen for a 7 day business trip. The journey this time involves traveling for 4 days in northern China around the Shanghai/Nanjing area, and then 3 days in Seoul, South Korea. We will return to China via Hong Kong on the 9th of March.
I realized when renewing our Chinese visas in the U.S. last month that my passport was almost full of stamps. Only 2 pages remained blank by the time we returned to mainland China. Matt only had 3 pgs left, but Dean was ok with about 8 pgs remaining. My first thought was - cool! I'm a real world traveler. My second thought was yikes, I'm not sure what happens if you try to go through customs without any open spaces for a stamp, and I don't want to find out.
Fortunately, getting new pages added to our passports was pretty easy and a fairly painless process. We were able to make an appointment with the U.S. Consulate office in Guanzhou. On Tuesday Matt went by car, which took about two and a half hours to get there. After 45 minutes of waiting and a payment of $164 (I thought it was pretty steep at $82 a piece), our passports now hold an additional 12 pages, or 24 if you count front and back. We should be good to go for an another year or so.
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