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There is one very important feature about your Washington State Enhanced Driver's License that you should know. It's good for crossing the border into Canada and Mexico (and Bermuda and the Caribbean)--but only by land or sea. Not by air. If you're flying there, make sure your passport is ready to fly with you. 

Don't have an EDL? See my previous story, "So You Want an Enhanced Washington Driver's License": 

Seattle residents have two EDL choices: the downtown DMV office or what's charmingly known to the DMV as Seattle-West. At the Seattle-West (known to locals as "West Seattle") location, they only take walk-ins for EDL applications, and stop taking applications 30 minutes before closing (closing weekdays is 5 p.m., Saturday, 2:30 p.m.).

The subtitle of this story is, "I ruin my vacation so you don't have to," since I discovered this useful fact while failing to fly into Mazatlan this past weekend. I thought about renewing my passport by appointment (which you can do if you have proof you're traveling in 14 days or less), but I was also sick with the flu. As it happens, I was sick with the flu when I got my last passport pictures taken, so I've been officially red-eyed and pasty for a full decade, and couldn't face another ten years of that. It was also a courtesy to my fellow travelers. ... (more)