Travel

The kids got their first passports today. We need them for our trip to Canada. I didn't get my passport until my mid-20's when I went to Belgium and France. How different their lives are from mine. Travel milestones for me were going to my first foreign country, Canada, when I was in 8th grade. I saw the ocean for the first time when I was 17. New York City when I was 18. I didn't fly in a plane until I was 22. My kids haven't been to another country yet, but they visited the ocean in their first months of life. They flew when they were babies and have been going to New York City their whole lives. The world is smaller now and more porous. It's ironic that we need passports for Canada. Adam and I biked there from Vermont years ago. The guards waved us in and waved us out. The world is smaller and we are more afraid.