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The surfing trip to Mexico had to have been before April 2007. One of the two guys she went with was Zion L, a brother of Sky Hughes. The knew to invite herself because she was hanging out at Sky's house (uninvited) when Zion and a friend were talking about going surfing in Southern CA.
The guys changed their destination to Mexico, invited a 3rd guy, and timed their departure for 4AM, all efforts to shake her loose, but she was not to be deterred.
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PS. I have renewed my passport by mail before, once even after 9/11. Wasn't a big deal. Do we know for sure she went to Costa Rica? It would make more sense for her to be going in somewhere if she was getting a passport for the first time.
Why not in Phoenix, though? Maybe because she was flying under the radar (avoiding repos and the like), and hadn't even obtained an AZ driver's license?
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You can renew a passport at most post offices. I just renewed mine. They expire after 10 years.
If she needed a first-time passport, she could have got one in Phoenix.
I thought she stayed in Costa Rica for 6 weeks or so when she was a teenager? With someone by the last name Arias?
Maybe she had a previous passport confiscated?
This passport thing is hinky....
Did she plan to go to Brazil with someone? After all, she's all about Brazilians?
Did Abe plan on going to Cancun, and maybe she had set her sights on him?
If the surfer dudes thought they could shake by going to Mexico, they must have determined she didn't have a passport. If she actually went, she did have a passport.
I'm thinking she needed a visa for something, or else she planned to travel out of the country soon after. It would help if we knew where the SW airlines destination was.
Aaahhh, SW Airlines didn't do international destinations until 2012.... wouldn't have had to know this, though. Didn't the PPL folks go to Cancun on SW?