Get rity

Passports have the tendency to expire.
And need to be renewed.

These days new passports are sophisticated.
Containing an integrated image, fingerprints, bar codes, chips, robots, coffeemakers and skis.
Anything to fight terrorism.

To obtain a new passport when abroad, the obeying citizen needs to go to the Embassy.
In this case, that bastion of the Netherlands is located in Mexico City.

Hence, Mexican airline company Interjet carries the almost passport-less traveller from Los Cabos, Baja California to Mexico City today.
Where tomorrow all the documents will be filled in and signed at the Embassy of the Netherlands to obtain the new passport.

Next, it takes two weeks before the passport is ready as it is printed and personalized in the Netherlands.
It will be delivered by courier in La Paz, Baja California to avoid having to go to Mexico City again.

Because it is a costly affair.
Flying, hotel and passport fees amount to over $ 600.

But to get a valid passport is essential.
Otherwise one cannot travel or legally ID oneself.

To enter this bureaucracy is against the own nature though.
To have to go to Mexico City, to have to spend over $ 600, to have to leave the Queen of Dreams for two days and two nights behind is painful and creating a feeling of being in a pool of nonsense.

This is why immediately other appointments in Mexico City were made.
To make the most of the trip.
So the main purpose of the journey shifts and is spread over different activities.

Mexico City: get rity !