Visas

This is part of the Trip Report The Visa Run Keeps Running (October 2014) which started and ended in Mongolia with these stops along the way: Shanghai, China Hong Kong Shanghai, China Osaka, Japan Kyoto, Japan Beijing, China Here is the overview for...

The reason the a-live section is a category on my blog is to provide quick updates of any adventures or debacles I encounter. Well chalk this one up as the latter. I arrived in Beijing...

This is part of the Trip Report So Long Mongolia, Hello SE Asia (December-January 2015) which covers: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Bangkok, Thailand Chiang Rai, Thailand Yangon, Myanmar Ngwe Saung, Myanmar Mandalay, Myanmar Bagan, Myanmar Hong Kong Orlando, Florida Catch up by reading the preview, The Banana Pancake Trail to...

I received a message in my spam folder claiming that Global Entry members could sign up for a similar program for 'Global Entry for Mexico'. The Programa Viajero Confiable Mexico shouldn't have gone to the junk...

Aló Presidente, I was hoping to visit Venezuela's Margarita Island so I could add it to my New Year's Party Destination List when I read the bad news: a tourist visa is required to visit Venezuela. Once...

I am the most paranoid person when it comes to visas because of the list of visa disasters that I have referenced in the past. I wrote the book on China Transit Visas and have shared...

It's my birthday today and for it TPOL gave me the gift of a huge headache at Chinese Immigration. I've written about how I've written about my visa problems. I thought I had this...

This post is part of the Tahiti Triumph Trip Report. It covers the following cities: NYC JFK Dubai, UAE Shanghai, China Papeete, Tahiti Bora Bora, Tahiti Moorea, Tahiti Auckland, New Zealand Hong Kong Island Tokyo,...

So you want to go to Russia eh? TPOL has been planning this trip for years. I managed to keep the same Park Hyatt DSU confirmation for three years. It was only after this...

There are certain things I hate paying for. These include annual fees for credit cards, valet parking, and visas. Trying to avoid both the payment and the process of sending in my passport is...