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wookiemonster!!
I'm going to Pennsic! I wrote about it last night on my Lady Patricia blog (http://ladypatriciaoftrakai.blogspot.com/2023/07/pennsic-50-frenzy.html). The writing is not the best because I finished it rather late at night, after the boy toy made me some sort of coconut cocktail.
I also didn't go into detail about my latest vehicular travails. Remember that 2008 Hyundai Tucson I bought to replace my totaled Corolla? When I first got it, I immediately started using it to move into the new apartment/cottage, but of course that was more of a process than an event. And at first I didn't have the money to get it inspected. (If you buy a used car that doesn't already have a Maryland inspection certificate, you get a 30-day temporary registration, but you must get that certificate to acquire the permanent registration.) Finally, at the end of June, I had the money to get the work done and I found an inspection station about a mile from where I now live. The proprietor of that garage, however, informed me that the Tucson's undercarriage was way too rusted out to ever pass Maryland inspection, and that I shouldn't have bought a vehicle with 189K miles on it to begin with. (As if I wouldn't have bought something better if I could have afforded it at the time!) Fortunately, the tag-and-title place gave me a "7" month sticker instead of a "6," so, even though the registration expired on June 11, it looks as if it's registered until the end of July.
Obviously, I am *not* driving this rig to Pennsic, partly because I don't want to drive an unregistered car out of state and partly because I'm going to hit a bump or hole while the thing is fully loaded and really mess up the vehicle. Fortunately, I made alternate plans. I put a call out on Facebook and got a couple of responses and selected one. One of Patches' neighbors is taking her three kids to Pennsic -- first time for all four of them -- so we made arrangements to rent a trailer for her minivan and split the cost.
This will be my 13th Pennsic, but the first to which I am not driving. Should be interesting....
wookiemonster!!I'm going to Pennsic! I wrote about it last night on my Lady Patricia blog (http://ladypatriciaoftrakai.blogspot.com/2023/07/pennsic-50-frenzy.html). The writing is not the best because I finished it rather late at night, after the boy toy made me some sort of coconut cocktail.
I also didn't go into detail about my latest vehicular travails. Remember that 2008 Hyundai Tucson I bought to replace my totaled Corolla? When I first got it, I immediately started using it to move into the new apartment/cottage, but of course that was more of a process than an event. And at first I didn't have the money to get it inspected. (If you buy a used car that doesn't already have a Maryland inspection certificate, you get a 30-day temporary registration, but you must get that certificate to acquire the permanent registration.) Finally, at the end of June, I had the money to get the work done and I found an inspection station about a mile from where I now live. The proprietor of that garage, however, informed me that the Tucson's undercarriage was way too rusted out to ever pass Maryland inspection, and that I shouldn't have bought a vehicle with 189K miles on it to begin with. (As if I wouldn't have bought something better if I could have afforded it at the time!) Fortunately, the tag-and-title place gave me a "7" month sticker instead of a "6," so, even though the registration expired on June 11, it looks as if it's registered until the end of July.
Obviously, I am *not* driving this rig to Pennsic, partly because I don't want to drive an unregistered car out of state and partly because I'm going to hit a bump or hole while the thing is fully loaded and really mess up the vehicle. Fortunately, I made alternate plans. I put a call out on Facebook and got a couple of responses and selected one. One of Patches' neighbors is taking her three kids to Pennsic -- first time for all four of them -- so we made arrangements to rent a trailer for her minivan and split the cost.
This will be my 13th Pennsic, but the first to which I am not driving. Should be interesting....
