I decided to try to escape the country. At least for just a few days. I work hard and I have a week of vacation coming up. It just makes sense to do something nice and atypical. My passport is expired but a cruise to Bermuda only requires a birth certificate. Easy, right? Wrong. My birth certificate is lost. GONE! Vanished. I wanted to leave on Saturday/Sunday. Today I am going to try my best to somehow either quickly renew my passport without any travel confirmation or replace my birth certificate. Hopefully something will work. I need to escape and nothing seems to be going my way. I think I understand why Last Minute deals are so cheap. No one can go anywhere at a drop of a hat.
Yesterday evening, after a fruitless search of my parents’ house and the donnavilla, I broke down in tears. I am not proud. A woman my age crying over a lost birth certificate! It just seems I can’t catch a break. It’s my own fault. I should have figured this out sooner. Should have got my ducks in a row back weeks ago. But I didn’t know weeks ago that I would take a vacation. I didn’t know I would have such a June that I would need to take a few days off. Obviously I am not a boy scout. I wasn’t prepared.
If you make an in-person visit to the US State Department (in DC), you should be able to get your passport renewed while you wait. Call your congressman’s office to get this teed-up, first.
Second, Harrisburg’s Bureau of Vital Statistics can issue a birth certificate to you, pretty much on-demand, if you go there in person with the appropriate ID. Contact your State Rep for assistance.
Sounds like you may need to blow-off tomorrow, but, it should be no problem to get the documents you need.
You could also try picking a vacation destination in-country (Florida, New England, California, etc.)
Best wishes!!
You could try Texas. As we say, it’s like a whole other country. Austin or San Antonio would be good, but hot.
I’ve been spending time lately in Acadiana – the Cajun part of Louisiana. It’s pretty different too.
We don’t have good beaches down this way though.
You can request a copy your birth certificate and get it shipped overnight. I did it for one of my clients so she could get her drivers license. It cost like $50 or something, but it can be done.