I'm not sure what exactly you mean by this. I do travel reasonably often, but as this thread has demonstrated there isn't a great need for anyone to visit an embassy while overseas; and a result, I don't know much about doing it. I took a short detour over to Asuncion as part of a trip to Iguazu falls as I had never been to Paraguay and because it isn't a typical "must-see" travel destination (no offense to anyone from Paraguay) now seemed as good a time as any to go since I was so close.

As I don't like to mail my passport anywhere when possible and I have read stories on FT about people adding pages at embassies, I thought I'd give the one here a try. I assumed (incorrectly) that because Paraguay is not a destination frequently-visited by Americans, there would not be a lot of Americans trying to utilize the embassy services on a given day, so I would be able to just show up during their regular business hours. It turns out that this is not the case. Like I said before, it's not big deal - I have plenty of time to add pages and there's still plenty of room so it's not an urgent issue.

I think I'm reasonably travel savvy, inability to properly utilize US Embassies notwithstanding. Realistically though, how often does anyone actually visit an embassy since there's very little reason to do so.