What It Takes to Max Out a Passport

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed)
Oct 20th 2010 at 7:01PM

Do you know how many pages your passport has? Sanjeev Midha does. The 49 yr old had to get a new passport last year after his old one got so large it ran out of pages (the maximum is 100), and now his new one is already near maxing out at a whopping 96 pages and counting. The real trick is that Midha hasn't racked up all those stamps and Visas by traveling for business, he mostly travels for pleasure with his wife and two teenage sons. This past summer alone they spent 3 1/2 months away from their New Jersey home traipsing all over Europe before heading to China, Mongolia, Canada, and Belize. And they're planning to leave again for Thanksgiving, this time to go snorkeling in the Cayman Islands.

So how much does all this traveling cost? Midha sets aside about $150,000 - $250,000 each year just for world travel, which he divides up into 8-10 trips taken with his wife, one or both of his sons, or everyone all together.

Tags: family travel, passport, travel