You have to give the folks at the Passport Services Office points for creativity.
Last month, when they wanted to conduct a public briefing on the upcoming changes to U.S. passport requirements, they could have held it in some sterile conference room in the bowels of the State Department in Washington, D.C.
Instead, they decided to hold the briefing in the other Washington and set up shop in the sleepy town of Point Roberts (pop. 1,500) in the northwest corner of the state. “The Point,” as the locals call it, is not only nearly 2,400 miles from the nation’s capital, but so remote that if you’re driving in from anywhere else in the country, you have to go through Customs twice just to get there.
