Dick and I recently purchased a second home. A small, mobile, second home that we can take with us on our road trips so we don't have to pay extra for having dogs at hotels that won't even allow you leave your dog in the room while you go out to eat. Our vacations always consist of road trips because we take our dogs with us everywhere. Our new home is called a TAB which stands for Taking America Back. I love it. It has a stove, a sink, a refrigerator, and a table with a U shaped bench seat that converts to a queen size bed. It has heat and A/C...really, what more do you need? It's like a deluxe, mobile, hotel room. It even has a port o' potty - for emergencies.
The only concerns we've had so far are getting it insured and registered. I won't even tell you about the insurance nightmare but if you want an idea you could go read one of my previous posts, entitled Come Out From Under That Rock Already. We bought our TAB in Arizona because that was the only place we could find one and we brought it home with the temporary tag that was suppose to be good for 90 days.
I called the DMV here in California which includes both driver's licenses and registrations in one place, unlike some states where they are in separate locations. I'm just telling you this because some of you may not have experienced the licensing/registration powerhouse that exists in California and some other states. My home state of Washington has its issues but I always felt it was easier there because the office you were in was half the size of the ones in California. The employees only had to expend enough brain power to get people through one specific variety of concerns: either driver's licenses OR registrations because really, aren't we asking a little too much of people when we expect they can handle both of these "services"?
I called and made an appointment to get our TAB registered and the first available appointment was four and a half weeks later. That's efficiency for you. I was informed that we would have to bring TAB with us so now this has really become an event because even though it's small and easy to maneuver, I am certainly not going to be the one to hook it up and drive it through town. So the appointment is set and Dick and I will both be taking time out of our lives to register the thing together. I can think of more fun ways to spend our time together, like pulling weeds or poking each other's eyes out, but instead, we had to go to the DMV.
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