In one of our polls we asked you if, when traveling, you’d rather leave the country or stay in the U.S. By far, the majority of you, 76 percent, answered that you’d rather stay in the U.S. than leave the country. Only 16 percent of you said you’d rather travel internationally and you’d go anywhere, and 8 percent of you said you’d rather travel internationally but only to another country that speaks English.
Now, that being said, we’re wondering if the numbers will correlate to the votes on this poll. If you don’t have a passport, perhaps you’d rather stay within the U.S. to travel. Now that would make sense! Do you have a current passport?
Please tell us in the poll below. If your plans to travel this year got cancelled or changed due to the coronavirus, please leave a comment and tell us.
Should have “Passcard” option.
Applied for a renewal just as the pandemic hit! Five months later I finally got it… And no where to go!
The VERY REASON we have delayed our renewals. Ours expired and we’ll have to start all over with new applications now.
Oh well…. that’s Life in the Covid World.
Trip planned for Bannf for 50th anniversary. Covid did that in when borders were closed. Renewed mine in Jan, lucky I did. Received it March only to find I couldn’t go anywhere
Cancelled our well planned and extensively deposits-prepaid 10 week Alaska RV roadtrip.
Michigan has Enhanced Licenses that are good to cross into and out of Canada and replace the need for passports.
Had to cancel our trip to West Coast due to Covid. Then in May had to cancel a Navy ship reunion, again due to Coronavirus. Now, two planned events in October are cancelled due to COVID. So, the RV has sat idle all year
Our thoughts on out of country travel is that there is too much beauty in the USA still left to see.
My wife and I had an Alaska cruise scheduled for this past May. Of course all cruises were cancelled due to C-19. Princess Cruise Lines refunded our money and we plan to try again, if and when cruising resumes.
We were considering the Real ID card here in PA. It’s good for travel and for entering any state or federal buildings along with entering Canada.
Since the requirements to obtain one are the same as a passport, we got the passport.
Also have the passport card which is good for everything but international travel. Now we can use it for everything.
I have the real ID card from PA, (Renewed my C.D.L.) but for Xmas we both renewed our Pass Ports planning to travel more in 2020. Well that went south fast. So fixing up the home stead and camper for when this is over.
My neighbor said he couldn’t get back into the U.S. With hjs enhanced drivers license. Luckily he had his passport also. That was in Mexico to the U.S.
I missplaced mine and it sounds like it still takes 4 to 6 months to get one.
I have maintained a current passport since a college trip to Paris in 1962. My current passport is the enhanced many more pages then standard. Although we love to travel the US in our motorhome we also enjoy foreign travel, at least two trips a year. Our most recent trip resulted in evacuation from Panama mid March! We have traveled in 50 states, 9 provinces and 67 countries. Currently have a trip planned for April, 50/50 whether we get to go.
Started to go to Mexico two years ago while in Yuma, fortunately looked at our passports first and found they had expired two years before!
when we renewed our passports we also obtained the more convenient passport cards.
My passport was due to expire in August and as an Alaska snowbird, I was worried about renewal period due to covid. Submitted in June and concerned when i heard it could take 4-6 months for receipt. Pleasantly surprised to receive the new in August!
I answered “yes” however we don’t have passports – we have “Pass Cards” which allows us to travel between US and Canada on land – which includes rail – but no international flights with a “Pass Card”. I don’t recall for sure about travel in and out of Mexico. We have no intention of traveling anywhere abroad anyway.
Renewals on the get-ready-to-fulltime list.
Yes, we have current passports, in 2014 we flew to Vancouver and in 2016 we visited Canada with our rv from Niagara Falls to the New York border down through Watertown, NY.
We planned a trip to Hawaii for this fall and purchased our plane tickets and reserved the
time share for an 18 day stay last spring. Due to COVID-19 restrictions we reluctantly just decided to cancel. First we tried to cancel on the Alaska website and the only options were to bank the money for later trips but then decided to phone the airline. Very helpful agent said oh we changed your flight schedule therefore you are entitled to a full refund and it was credited back to credit card in just a few days. So glad we did not accept one of the on line options.
I don’t plan on leaving this country as long as I’m alive so I don’t think I need one. When I went to Vietnam in 1968 compliments of the U.S. Marine Corps no one said anything about a passport so if I didn’t need one then I don’t need one now.
Sounds like you and I both got all expenses paid trip to Nam and glad you also made it home. But this time, if you want to travel to Canada or Mexico you will need one and the process it takes, to get one, takes several weeks. Just saying…Semper Fi
Had one & never used…have enhance drivers licenses so do not need
No, just an enhanced drivers license
Uncle Sam sent me to the far east in 1967 without a passport. Thank God that I got home without one as well. That was enough of being out of the USA. Don’t need a passport.
Yes and have used it many times, just on this continent!
Everyone that takes to the road should have a current passport for use into either Canada or Mexico.
Not the passport, but the pass card just for Canada and Mexico. Don’t intend to leave North America ever again.
I renewed my Passport back in 2016. I’d LOVE to travel again but, with the current state of the Covid 19 Pandemic, I just don’t feel safe traveling; ESPECIALLY for international travel.
I not only have one passport, I have two. One from USA and one from Germany!
All passport offices in OR are closed due to…guess what. If you mail in, processing is about a million behind which means ID would sit in passport office for God know how long.
Yes, have carried a passport since 1973.
Yes we have passports. We live 40 miles from Mexican border and it just makes good sense to have one. My dentist is in Mexico, and when we took cruises (not right now, due to covid) we needed a passport.