A Travel Writer Gets Dumped

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  07.31.09 | 12:38 PM ET

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By his old passport, that is. Like other writers before him, Lonely Planet’s Leif Pettersen says goodbye to his traveling companion of five years: “It ended so suddenly. One minute we’re jet-setting along as ever, the next she had simply run out of pages ... Oh sure, I’ll get another passport. She’ll be new, thin, have perfect skin and, ideally, will have never been with another guy, but it just won’t be the same.”

Tags: Humor, Passports, Life of a Travel Writer

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


3 Comments for A Travel Writer Gets Dumped

KELLI FRIZZELL 07.31.09 | 5:29 PM ET

DONT WORRY YOU CAN HAVE HER BACK AND BEGGING FOR MORE WITH ADDITIONAL PAGES FREE FROM THE GOVERNMENT…YOU DONT HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE JUST GOODNIGHT UNTIL THEY SHIP HER BACK TO YOU:-)

John D 08.03.09 | 3:03 AM ET

Hard to believe that anyone (especially one who travels for a living), didn’t know that when your passport runs out of pages…..you get more pages..period.  Any Embassy or Consulate will (usually) do it while you wait abroad.  You never get a new passport until your old one expires, is lost or damaged.  Or was the article just that more interesting with your particular slant?
Don’t mention it!

kral oyunlar 09.13.09 | 9:42 AM ET

Any Embassy or Consulate will (usually) do it while you wait abroad.  You never get a new passport until your old one expires, is lost or damaged

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