international travelling fun ? huh, depends on nationality....

From starting our journey together in 2006 to changing 2 apartments in DC, to getting married, and of course law school... life has changed a lot for both of us.. We decided to take a break and get away........ from the busy life, the tiredness, the work, the school (and the family :-)  the lazy bums that both of us are, we ended up booking cruise tickets from Carnival for a 5 day cruise to Grand Cayman Islands and Jamaica starting from Miami.... No problems till this point.... Guess where the problem begins- yeah u got it, Visa issues... travelling internationally is fun to the point you don't have to get a visa.... if u are in the loop of getting a visa, get ready to face some really fun times... if u r a citizen of the "not-so-rich" countries, get ready to sell urself and ur pride in the open visa market.... u will be treated like a criminal.... fingerprinted a thousand times, asked a million questions from ur family and friends to the most personal details anyone can get.... and if that's not the end of the humiliation, u should pay a couple houndred dollars and in return mail your entire original passport ! mail ur passports ? are you kidding me ? are these people completely insane ? who sends their passports to an unknown location by mail ? who is responsible to loss of identity if the passport somehow gets stolen on the way or gets damaged ? these self-righteous countries (a.k.a UK)  should be just ashamed of the terrible visa application process they have which is nothing more than a complete nonsense and a sham.... Forget about giving some respect to the people whose money is paying for the salaries of the consulate staffers ! They say that they are making sure that bad people don't enter their country.... does anyone in their righteous mind believes that this world is any safer now than it was say 40 years ago ?

Gone are the days, when travel was all that fun.... Then also u needed a visa, but the process was not so humiliating... I feel like half the fun of travel is gone right here, right away....