The Last 35 Days

In the last 35 days, the word passport has come out of my mouth at least 6,328,204 times.

In the last 35 days, I have had my passport stamped in Brazil, Anguilla and Toronto and have had it handled by immigration officials and airline personnel numerous times.

In the last 35 days, if I wasn't asking supporters and travel and lifestyle bloggers to send in photos holding their passports in support of girls getting their first passports, I was whipping out my own passport from my back pocket and taking photos of people who said yes. 

In the last 35 days, I have Instragrammed, Tweeted, Facebooked, Google+ed and posted the word passport or the hashtag #PassportPartyProject more times that I can count and so much that my right arm hurts and my fingertips are sore. Twitter even shut me down a couple of times for excessive use. LOL

In the last 35 days, I spent 36 hours straight updating The Passport Party Project Web site instead of exploring more of Anguilla's 33 white sand beaches.  (And yes, I'm going back.) 

Sandy Island, Anguilla. Photo credit: @OneBrownGirl

In the last 35 days, when someone asked me What's new? or even How are you?, I started talking rambling on and on (and on) about passports.  LOL I bet they were sorry they asked.

In the last 35 days, I have received 200+ emails that included the word passport.

In the last 35 days, I - along with Passport Party Project advocates from the United States and across the globe - campaigned for Phase 2 of The Passport Party Project like beasts for a crowd-sourcing contest put on by The G Project that I didn't even know about until I read about it in a tweet while in Brazil.

In the last 35 days, I have been working on the logistics for Passport to Belize.

In the last 35 days, I have only wondered for about 35 minutes total how and why I'm so committed to the power of passports.

In the last 35 days, I have been inspired (and brought to happy tears) not just by the darling photos I have received of girls with their very first passports, but by how much they inspire the adventures of little Miss Buttercup Bottletop and her magic passport as well.  

In the last 35 days, I have been extremely grateful for the folks who "get it" and equally as grateful for the folks who don't.  #keepsmeonmytoes

Truth be told, the last 35 days could not have been better.  
So. What have you been up to for the last 35 days? ;-)