Whoa, that is a scary and exciting and frustrating adventure.

Sometimes I think how odd it is that we need passports. I mean I though we were moving to a 'global' world, but I guess that just means for trade.

This is scary, indeed. When I'm abroad I'm always obsessively finding, holding, then replacing my passport. It'd be pretty scary to lose it, but at least you made it out fine in the end.