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I was told once that I should always have a passport handy. I think it was by my grandfather, as a matter of fact. I got one right out of highschool, and after I "graduated" from that joke of a modeling agency, and moved to L.A. Because I was going to make it big, you know? Become an international superstar with the first movie I ever made, I even told my mom that. I landed a small role in Pearl Harbor. I was a gunner. But, at the time I had a big mouth, and even bigger dreams. I let my fantasies get the best of me, and before I knew it, I was borrowing money from my grandmother to make rent because I spent what little I made. You might be asking what this has to do with having a passport. Absolutely nothing, I got sidetracked. It happens a lot.

I went to the post office and stood in line for an hour, money from my mom in my pocket to pay. It seemed that the only people who had passports were spies and things in movies. So, now I was the ultra cool kid with a passport. I was going to jetset, travel to Europe and Asia for press junkets and appearances, the whole nine. Of course, that didn't happen either, until recently that is. This small leather booklet sat in my dresser, the stapled binding not even broken; I think I opened it once to look at my picture. That awful, awful picture, kind of reminded me of my driver's license.

I was finally able to use it about a week ago. I don't do any overseas travel, for any reason that I just haven't, and hadn't really had a reason to. That is, until recently. Never Back Down got a lot of international press, which of course sent us on those international press junkets I mentioned earlier. I had to get a new plan on my cell phone that covered international calls so I could call my mom and my friends back in Ohio from Germany or where have you. I'm looking at my passport right now, and am loving the blue and purple colored circles stamped on the paper. So, yeah, now I can say I've been places. It impresses my mom, anyway. It still amazes her that I can call her from across the ocean from a cell phone. I'm not so sure she really understands them all to well.

How've you guys been?



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