After what felt like years, my new passport arrived via Priority Mail yesterday. I’ve never had one before, and I already feel like a globetrotter. I kept taking it out and admiring it last night.
The cover is surprisingly stiff, perhaps to protect the RFID chip somewhere within. The page with my photo and information has a security laminate that shows iridescent stars and an eagle when light is reflected off of it. The blank visa pages all have engraved images of such quintessential, almost hackneyed Americana that I could not avoid hearing “America the Beautiful” playing in my head as I looked through them.
Gotta remember to sign it now.
