My goodness. Its now 12:40 am. I just arrived home in Idaho finally. What a day it was. I had to take notes as to not forget anything because the whole day was such a joke. I'm so glad to be home right now!!
I left San Francisco without too much trouble. I was faced with another unexpected stop at the toll plaza. That was really fun. I didn't know it was coming and then they don't post how much until you are right there and can't get off the freeway and get money ( 4 dollars to enter and exit that city~ cash only, be prepared) so I stopped and found out it was 4 dollars and then I began the hunt for every last coin and penny I could find. The lady just patiently waited for me to exhaust every last resource. If I can't manage it she gives me a ticket for 25 dollars,what a mean trick to play on visitors. No where does it say there is a toll? I ask you to show me where it says it!! So 3 or 4 minutes later and a pile of cars behind me I finally come up with the right amount of change. Thank goodness, so I'm cursing California already and its still early.
I get to the DMV in Davis thinking I'll be out of the Bay Area and will walk right into the place and get my test done...ohh no! Not one parking spot in the entire place. I had to go find parking down the street and walk there. When I got inside every chair in the place was full and there was a line around the corner. So I got my number G030 and they were on G020. That was at 10 am. My lucky number was called at 12 pm. This is after I got back in line to make sure I didn't have to have a Cali drivers license to get my Class B Commercial. She said no, I walked out, went to my car and called to make an appointment for the commercial test in July. That lady said no, so I walked back into the DMV hoping they hadn't passed my number yet...of course they hadn't (I'd been on hold 10 minutes by then, lucky me) so I was able to get my test done and I passed barely. You can only miss 6 and I missed 6. Phew! So as I mentioned to the guy I was just needing my Class B license he said oh my gosh, you didn't have to do any of this. I just said forget it, give me the stupid license and I'll tackle the rest later.
So I left the DMV at 12:15pm I'm still at least 9-10 hours from home by this point.
Off I fly down the freeway, trying to just keep up with the traffic and pay attention to where I am headed. In Reno I was trying to find something in my purse and I pulled my hand out only to discover it was covered in melted chocolate! One entire section was filled with melted chocolate. Oh my gosh, what a mess! I had a truffle in there and it oozed out and covered everything. Not looking forward to cleaning that up tomorrow! It was a really hot drive across the desert today! Even with cloud cover it was so hot! I opted for gummie bears instead of anything that would melt in my car...after I washed my hands from the chocolate dip they got.
Once I passed Winnemucca Nevada I had a brilliant giggle about the Golden Arches of McDonalds. ( I drove by one and was bored, okay?!) What if those were set up to send out a signal between the restaurants. Like a government cover-up. They are everywhere and some of those Arches are high enough to be like the Beacons of Gondor in Lord of the Rings. Thats why there are so many, in case of emergency we'll just activate the arches and they'll light up and spin or something fantastic. I'll be waiting to see.
Once it got dark I had the challenge of keeping my eyes peeled for deer and antelope, because they do roam. Every reflective highway marker became eyes after a while. I tried to follow a semi truck but he wanted me to go around him. I had hoped he'd be my point man and knock the animals out of the road by the time I got to them but he must have thought I could do the same for him. Though he'd survive that and I wouldn't have.
Well, here I am again. At my parents house, with little to do but study and wait for my first tour to start. I dread the possible reality of having to drive back to California before July to take the Commercial tests because that is the correct order of business. No one seemed to know. Very annoying. I will find that out tomorrow and then cry about it Thursday if I do indeed have to drive back to Cali for that portion of my test to prove my valor and loyalty.
This tour thing is going to be great but serious amounts of work to get there. California could skip this whole thing if they'd let us drive a 16 passenger van without an endorsement on our licenses. Its so lame! Idaho and Nevada and most other states are not that way. But California has to be different. I hate California. I'm so glad my tours will take me out of state and only a quick turn around before I'm out of it again. Thank goodness. Nothing is ever easy there. Nothing is cheap, nothing is close by. I mean, it has so many amazing qualities and then you get screwed at the toll booth and have to visit the damn DMV. Everyone should try that once to see why Californians hate it so much. Its HORRIBLE. Oh and I forgot to mention after all that they don't give you your license on the spot (oh Idaho, how i miss you already) they have to mail it to you. How lazy is that? Just print the stupid thing up and hand it to me. I hate the DMV. At least the workers were all nice in Davis, I will say that one nice thing but then I'm done.
So nice to be home.
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