Terrifying prospect. I've been traveling the last few days and saw something very disturbing.

[Horse with no Name]

Billboards across the interstates.
Never saw anything like it and I really have no reference point here.
Billboard said something along the lines of "Taking a road trip?" Then gave a website to get an interstate passport.

What the hell is this????A passport for domestic travel?:scared:
Does anyone have any further information on this?

[WolverineDG]

1. what's the web site address? nt

[Horse with no Name]

3. I don't know.

It was a state.gov address. I was driving without my bifocals on so I couldn't see the small print, but those phrases were large enough to see with my prescription sunglasses.

[HEyHEY]

2. Sorry, man, you scare too easily

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. This website says no...

http://www.travellerspoint.com/forum.cfm?thread=51451

[Horse with no Name]

6. Thanks.

I had no idea what they were talking about.

[GoneOffShore]

5. It's coming - I'm an American traveling in my own country

I'm not a zek being transported to the gulag.

"your papers?"

[SoCalNative]

7. Were you by chance in Kentucky when you saw the billboards?

http://www.kentuckyhorse.org/interstate-passport/

[PoliticAverse]

10. On the Internet,

nobody knows you're a horse...

[Horse with no Name]

12. LOL. Nope.

Actually saw them mainly in Arizona.

[PoliticAverse]

17. Did you see one of these in AZ?

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/08/anti-sb_1070_billboard_at_came.php

[tammywammy]

8. Were you in Kentucky?

http://www.kentuckyhorse.org/interstate-passport/

[elocs]

9. This really sounds like the sort of things that freepers spread via email forwards,

their primary way of disseminating information, usually which is false.

Anyone may put something on a billboard, but that does not make it legitimate or something of which to fear.

[Warpy]

11. Some states out west are worried their driver's licenses

won't be adequate if their citizens get stopped in Arizona.

We had PSAs around here about that, probably because NM is one of the few places that will give driver's licenses to illegals, very easy to distinguish from the ones given to citizens.

[Horse with no Name]

13. That could be it.

I was in Arizona and New Mexico when I saw them. Thanks Warpy!

[SoCalNative]

14. There's also a "Route 66 passport"

program

http://www.azrt66.com/passport.htm

[drm604]

15. I just Googled "interstate passport".

Every single link on the first page referred to something called an "equine interstate passport" (equine means horse). It's something to do with the interstate transport of horses, apparently related to some sort of veterinary certification.

http:??www.google.com/search?q="interstate+passport"

[Ohio Joe]

16. About a month ago a made a long road trip...

NJ to MA to CO and saw nothing like that.

[walldude]

18. It also may be a "trucker" thing. I know they have these

"passes" now where the trucks get weighed while they are driving so they don't have to keep stopping at weigh stations.

[guitar man]

19. I wonder if it could be

For an electronic toll road tag that works on more than one state's toll road system? :shrug:

[Kali]

20. could it have been the new border cards for land crossing to Mexico and Canada?

cheaper than a passport - I think I saw one east of Tucson the other day