Seriously, WTF.
My passport was scheduled to expire early next year and the Department of State recommends renewing 9 months before that; and my driver license expiration was coming up and the Secretary of State recommends renewing several weeks early.
So I sent off my passport for by-mail renewal. And a week later I went for my license.
Sadly, I didn't read the license pamphlet and I couldn't get the enhanced license good for domestic air travel boarding because I did not have my passport to verify that I continue to be the person that I have been for the last 40 years of being in the driver license system.
And then less than a week after I renewed my license I received my new passport.
So I could have renewed my license a week earlier or a week later and have gotten my enhanced license. Now I need to use my passport for domestic air travel.
I couldn't have timed that on purpose if I'd tried.
About Me
- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
