Flying from Boston to DC...what do I need to bring?

Just a Bible, apparently.

How old do you think I am? Dosen't the airlines count adults begining at Age 14?

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Check the airline you plan to use. They each have rules on solo flights for younger kids and teens. For instance, in 2006 Northwest restricts kids 14 and under from flying solo on connecting flights. (At least they started that in 2006) You may have to have your parents sign a form or escort you to security.

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Maybe I'm overprotective, but I don't think I would let my 14 year old fly to a strange city alone, see a play and then come back.

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Jay...
I haven't flown (is that a word) since I was 15.

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I don't think those items would get past security checkpoints....

You know yourself the best, so you decide how much money you take. But I would NEVER travel with my passport within the country unless necessary. I would travel with a copy of my passport, but not the passport itself. Doing so domestically is pointless (unless you don't have an ID). And even if you wanted to, you couldn't register with an embassy or consulate...because you're within the boundaries of the country...Embassies and Consulates are national representation abroad which provide services to their citizens. Being that you're in the country, no need for that. If there's an emergency or anything, you just call the police or send smoke signals.

you didn't know "flown" is a word???

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I've gone to a lot of weird and troubled places. Habit, I guess, but yeah, I never register in Western Europe, Canada or the US.

Cuba should be interesting.

I've traveled a bit in Eastern Europe (I register there or not depending on the country) some former Soviet Republics, the Mid-east (in the past, but not any more) China, India, Uzbekistan, Armenia (former Soviet, but so different I list them separately from the others).

Damn, those are some pretty hardcore places, haha.

I'd love to go to Western Africa one day. It's a lot of shots and paperwork though, but one day I'll do it. I'd love to visit Ghana, the Ivory Coast and Rwanda. Ahh, I'm getting excited just thinking about it.

I'll show my passport internationally (because you get all sorts of discounts and stuff by showing a passport), but within the US it's easier (for me) to just show my drivers license. Plus, I like my license picture more than my passport photo. In my passport I look like a depressed orphan.

And I wasn't talking so much about security. I was refering more to how the airlines now treat people like cattle, and how some people become very pompous and rude the second they enter an airport.

I honestly feel very sorry for the crews who have to work the counters and personnel who are supposed to help these people. Some of them are so incredibely rude. I just went to Boston, and I was in line waiting to check in my bags. They had to open a new station because the lady in front of me spent a half hour screaming at the airline employee because she didn't know she had to pay to have her bags checked....that's her problem. She should have done the research and known, but instead of just admitting she messed up, she took it out on the poor employee.
What a pain.

yeah Manny, I agree....some of these people act like they never heard of the new rules....like the woman going to Seattle early this month who was incensed that she had to leave her watwr with the TSA people, as if she'd been on another planet for 8 years.

I will say through, that some airport and airline people are just as rude. I witnessed someone being treated extremely bad by an FA, and when I said something I was told I could leave the plane if it bothered me so much. Seventeen people around me asked for the gate agent and they complained too as they had witnessed it. We all wrote just stood there, and they backed down, and we all wrote letter and got some ridiculous $200 towards a future flight, and it turns out 15 of us sent it back saying "no thanks."

Long ago I was an FA for National Airlines when they were still around, so I've seen it from both sides.

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