Which year was your passport issued? How many stamps do you have?Most interesting pages?My passport was issued in 2020 and has 27 stamps, 15 of those being entry stamps. The first page has stamps from:>Colombia>Mexico>Philippines>Taiwan>UAE
>>2821464Europe is so annoying for passport stamp collectors due to the EU. If you live in the US, good luck getting any from Eastern Europe. They only stamp the country you enter and leave, which will often just be a connecting flight airport you barely spent time in
Aren't most countries working away from stamps?
recently lost my 2022 passport (while abroad too) that was up to 13 entry stamps + 4 entry stickers (2 japan 2 korea) + 1 full page visa (cambodia) + however many exit stamps that was (cant remember)it hurts so much...well i also have something like 1000 eki stamps (+ the tourist ones at museums, shops, etc) from japan, korea, taiwan and chinahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eki_stamp
>>2821470Schengen stamps are also ugly as shit. I'm happy though because they stamped me on the "Endorsements & Special Mentions" page, which otherwise might not have gotten used.
>>2821471UAE let me exit using the autogate, so no exit stamp. Every time I've tried the autogate in other countries (like Malaysia), I've been denied.
>>2821470This. I went to Europe but only got a stamp from Milano Malpensa.
>>2821471I didn't get a stamp when I entered the US last year.
>>2821471I just spent a month in Indonesia, entry and exit Jakarta. No stamp. Felt very weird. But appreciate saving pages.
>>2821464Bong here. I always get the bigger 54 page passport. Lasts me about 5 or 6 years only. I travel permenently. Grateful for the extra pages though
>>2821649Do you get visa-free entry to ID? >>2821651Whoa, that sounds like a lot of full-page Cambodian visas. My overseas travels cover 26 of the past 67 months. Domestic travels cover an additional 21 months, and work makes up the remainder at 20 months. I'm pretty happy with this ratio, though going forward there won't be any more domestic travels, as I no longer own a motor vehicle.
>>2821464Singapore passport here, so every relevant country is visa free and i just walk through the autogate everywhere except china. I get a stamp sometimes in 3rd world countries when the autogate is broken though
When I lived in Europe I made it a point to go to all the microstates and get stamps if I could. Andora, Vatican, San Marino, Monaco, Luxemberg. sure I'm forgetting some more.
>>2822189>Do you get visa-free entry to ID?No. $30. You get the VoA by email after you go through immigration. I'm taking a couple of years off and have no check-in luggage so I'm hopping on planes a lot
>>2821482>1000 eki stampsJesus Christ. And I only have the 24 of the Yamanote Line, the stamps from the three views of Japan, the stamps on my Mt. Fuji Pilgrimage Staff from the Yoshida Trail and maybe of some other places here and there. Your dedication to stamp collecting is very admirable
I have been moving away from keepsakes generally. The more I think about the whole process, the crazier it seems.I don’t need to prove to myself or anyone else that I visited a place, no one has ever asked for evidence.However, I can’t shake the attachment to the idea of bragging about ‘my number’. I want to be able to say that I’ve visited 50 countries or 50 world cities, maybe all the world-class cities.To me, the more I travel the less cool it seems in concept, the more cringe it seems to do things like take photos or send post cards or hold onto local currency.“Rich people dont look at photos to remember a vacation, they just go back there”I say all this with no cynicism, just dispassion. I love the world and love seeing new places, I just think it’s dumb when other people do it, which makes me wonder why I am blind to the idea that it is also dumb when I do it.
>>2822391It's not the number of countries so much as the first-hand geographical knowledge I've gained by traveling - which requires more overland travel and fewer international flights.The ultimate travel flex is not name-dropping places and bragging about luxury - any LARPer can do that - but being able to provide detailed information and experiences from a thousand different places you've been to.
>>2823087Time is the most valuable resource. I've been to 80 countries but worked in 15, spent 3 months Kenya, 3 months Ugandan, 6 months Brazil etc. This is the biggest dick of travelling.
My dick is massive
>>2822279i never bothered to get all of the stamps on 1 line but i did get off 1 stop early/ late many times to get more stamps instead of reusing the same stations. i think i have around 500-600 from japan. taiwan is a good place to get loads of stamps, the tourist info center at jiufen has like 28 stamps in it alone, they're like overexcited children over there about stampschina has quite a lot too and overdoes it i.e. many places you go to and get 5-10 stamps from. many of the souvenir/book kind of stores have shit loads in but require you to purchase something in store. they even have different tiers of what you purchase, i.e. they'll only let you use some stamps if you purchase the book they specifically sell for it and that kind of shit. completely over the top but many have cool designsthis is my stamp book collection, never really liked any i found in stores in japan, but you can find many nice ones on amazon or whatever (top row has taiwan, taiwan, empty but bought in forbidden palace in bejing, china, korea)
>>2823088You've managed to make your travels pay their own way? Interesting, very few people have figured out how to do this apart from working their home-country job remotely. Do you work legally or illegally?
>>2823098Just started off with TEFL and no degree then got a B.Ed then M.Ed (online). Not working anymore. Just travelling
>>2823088I don't want to commodify my time. It is spent however I plan to spend it, which usually involves leisure with very few and specific daily tasks (like buying breakfast the night before)
>>2821464Anyone else disappointed that they're not stamping passports any more? Been to three foreign countries so far this summer and none of them put a stamp in. FFS last time I didn't even have to take my passport out when reentering the US, they used facial recognition to decide I was me and was reentering after a ten-day trip.
>>2822391>“Rich people dont look at photos to remember a vacation, they just go back there”Unfortunately even the rich can't buy a time machine. Some things you're not going back to.
>>2823099About to do TEFL shit. Does it truly matter if I have a college degree? Similarly, you ever done a totally online service that doesn't give a fuck where you are? Dream is to work anywhere I want without them giving a fuck, even if its for less than 10 USD an hour (minimum where I am is over 20).
>>2826293I've been stamped every place I've been, except Korea a few years ago. What places aren't stamping?
>>2826822Most places require a college degree. Only a few countries don't. Those that don't still prioritize hiring of those that have degrees.
>>2826849>What places aren't stamping?Malaysia has fast track gates for certain passport holders (five eyes, some nearby countries)The last few times I've been here, I just scan my passport, then walk through a face recognition gate. There's a secondary customs check but that takes five seconds (no stamp)I got off the plane and like ten minutes later I'm getting in a taxi.Most of that ten minutes is waiting for luggage.It's unbelievably quick. They don't even check for duty free or anything.I guess certain passport holders are super low risk for Malaysia
>>2821464My current American passport was issued in 2021, and it’s still practically naked—I think it has just fourteen or fifteen stamps in it so far. I’ve traveled with it many dozens of times, but I was based in, and mostly traveling within, Europe for the last six years, and so have passed through almost no passport control points. I’ve got a few Turkish stamps, a few EU/Schengen area re-entry stamps (from CDG, ZRH, BSL, and AMS, maybe one or two others), and two Irish stamps like the one pictured here—I thought it was classy and rather old-fashioned of them to take up half a page. The UK used an oversized entry stamp for a while, too, but sometime just before I got this passport they’d replaced it with electronic gates.Heading back to Asia for the first time in some years in the spring, so I look forward to filling a bit more space. My previous passport was just about full.
I have an EU entry stamp into Greenland which is kind of a tough one to get. I also have an entry stamp for New Zealand from 2021 which is almost impossible-mode for a foreigner.It’ll be sad to this book go in a couple years.
