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It's also opportunities lost to explore for my nephew, who hasn't had the best life
Your concept of a good life of superficial vacations and travel are false in my opinion. It's wasteful. You want to give him a good experience, give him a good education.
WookieMan saysIt's also opportunities lost to explore for my nephew, who hasn't had the best life
I'm going to comment on this.
Your concept of a good life of superficial vacations and travel are false in my opinion. It's wasteful. You want to give him a good experience, give him a good education.
I've lived in 5 states, so much variety here but I don't consider any of those experiences useful education or comprehension.
My mother used to travel with my aunt and when we hooked up, I had to see all the fucking goddamned tourist traps. When I went to Paris, I used my terrible French to connect to the locals. I hate tourist traps with such a fucking passion. To go into the Eiffel Tower was 2 hours. What? To stand on an ancient monument to a World's Fair?
See the actual world. Your kids are probably too young, and you frankly might be, but travel to a shithole in the middle of nowhere, just ...
We spent the last two months traveling to about 20 of the National Parks. Drove almost 10,000 miles in those two months. Incredibly exhausting. We woke up at the crack of dawn, hiked several hundred miles and had a great time. Everyone wants to do it again. Kids learned more than in a year of school and it was nice to check out of work and be away from a screen.
Go to Florida or Puerto Rico instead.
My wife is working on passports for our kids 3 to 6, that will expire in a few short years anyway
Especially on a cruise ship, I can see in our future a cruise ship passenger getting some Faucci variant of Covid
So we have a fucked up situation. Took the nephew in, but mom is still guardian. Baby daddy is in prison currently. Both parents supposedly need to be present. Anyone ever deal with a similar situation or know someone that has?
I have a problem with the whole concept, it seems like a prison mostly populated with old folks (or drunk millenials) with each day at sea a day of contrived activities, and each day at port a day of contrived shallow and superficial tourist traps. Homie's not interested.
We have trips to Jamaica and Mexico booked that we can cancel if needed (don't want to), but my nephew doesn't have his passport. My SIL has done nothing for months, hence why we have him. We've done our kids passports, so I get the process. It's just this unique situation where the birth certificate Dad is in prison (not jail).
There is a form I believe from looking at the passport site from the government for an absentee parent if it's notarized, but our post office is saying both parents need to be present. Not possible.
I'll contact a service/attorney, but figured I'd throw the question out here and see if I could save some $$$ on it. This situation is handcuffing my family and it's frustrating as fuck. It's also opportunities lost to explore for my nephew, who hasn't had the best life, and see the world or at least the parts close to the US. We're trying to lock up Costa Rica for Spring Break too.