{"id":12644,"date":"2021-01-13T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12644"},"modified":"2021-01-12T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T22:17:06","slug":"can-i-backdate-a-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/can-i-backdate-a-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I backdate a passport?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This sounds interesting:<\/a><\/p>\n

Through the new Scenic Byways Passport, travelers can check in at 12 scenic byways and more than 100 unique attractions and local businesses. Each check-in to a location on the passport earns travelers one entry into a monthly drawing for a prize package valued at about $200. Prize packages include an overnight stay, gift certificates, and more.<\/em><\/p>\n

The website requires a smart phone.<\/a> I signed up via my desktop only to get an e-mail telling me to click a link to “put link on home screen”. The instructions say “there is no app to download” but it creates something very app-like<\/em>, probably directing to a specific browser page.\u00a0(There is a separate “Iowa Culture” app from the Department of Cultural Affairs.)<\/p>\n

The catch for me is, I’ve already been to so many of those places! The Lincoln Highway sites, especially, as shown in this story from WQAD<\/a>. The second catch is promoting something travel-related when so many people are reluctant to travel. However, many of the “check-ins” would have to be outside anyway.<\/p>\n

The passport is all about the Scenic Byways, so large swaths of north-central and south-central\/southwest Iowa don’t have any special locations, nor about a 40-mile radius of Muscatine. If the recently minted Jefferson Highway Heritage Byway gets some stops, that will change a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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