Confessions of a Weary Traveler, Part 3: A Digital Labyrinth of Bureaucracy

 

And so, we return to the thrilling saga of my great migration from Vietnam to China. You may recall from the last entry that my U.S. passport was successfully submitted, a process that, to my immense disappointment, went off without a hitch. The passport returned in the prescribed amount of time, with no drama, no misplaced forms, and no last-minute denials. It was a victory, I suppose, but a bland one. I almost didn't write an update because, well, what's the point of a blog post if you can't complain about a soul-crushing bureaucratic ordeal?