Because the RV is big I need a special endorsement on my Calif drivers license for the weight classification. I obtained the endorsement last July. It is rare for the DMV to do these, the DMV guy said they only see about two a year, and no one knew quite what was required. They had me take just about every test they had. Plus they wanted a health certificate from my Doc. I studied, took an extra hour of written tests including that they made me take a motorcycle written test (go figure). Then they changed the rules on me midstream. Though I had already taken the tests and passed they apologized and said I only needed to take one of them and trashed the rest. At least I got the endorsement sticker. I showed the endorsement to a CHP I chanced to meet, and he had never seen one and didn't know they existed.
In a few days, on my birthday, my drivers license expires. A renewal never came in the mail. I am lucky I noticed. So I called DMV Sacramento. The rep said something was amis, my endorsement was listed as "pending" and "void" at the same time in the DMV computer, and I had to go to the local office to straighten it out. Not my favorite place. But I made the trip. Fortunately I got a nice helpful guy. After much searching he finally found the "real" criteria, realized I had been forced to jump through more hoops than necessary, and on my word and the fact I had the endorsement sticker reinstated everything. So far so good, until he took it to the boss with the center desk. His boss said I had to take a driving test, one of the few things they didn't require before. I told him that was interesting as I haven't had a ticket in 36 years and have been pulling the 5th wheel RV for 3.5 years. No matter. The Gestapo had spoken. He gave me a temporary license, and now I need to brush up on the driving criteria and make an appointment for a driving test. I'm not paraniod but my big fear is I'll do the test and the next DMV aficionado will come up with a different set of criteria. :-( The Lord must think I need patience. Or I may be paraniod after all.
A bit of wanderlust combined with a garage full of cool things. Beginning in April 2010 follow our cabin build history and other adventures in remote Gustavus, Alaska
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"Most of us live a cautious life on the principle of safety first; but to live the Christian life there is necessary a certain reckless willingness to adventure. If faith can see every step of the way, it is not really faith."
Wm. Barclay
“Few frontiers would have been settled without that special breed of women who have always followed the footsteps of their wandering husbands.” Wayne Short, from “The Cheechakoes”
"Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing."
Helen Keller
"...not all those who wander are lost"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Samuel Clemens
"Truth is the cry of many but the game of few." --George Berkeley
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
Albert Camus
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. "Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do" "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gian Carlo Menotti
Langston Hughes
About Me
- Mel (AKA Dad, Papa Mel, Grampa)
- Not retired, just tired. Married 44 years. Viet Nam Vet (1st Cavalry Division). Enjoying life!
1 comment:
I don't think the DMV makes it an easy experience for anyone.
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