Monday, July 16, 2007

Driver's license

Ha! Thats another shock...

No matter how long have you been driving for, no matter when you took your first drivers license test back in your home country, no matter how old are you or your accident history (or lack of)... I had to go through the same process to get my Florida drivers license as a 15 year old.

And you HAVE to have it. For ID purposes and because if they catch you driving with your non-US license 30 or more days after you landed in the US, you are in trouble. Big trouble.

One good thing I have to say about this is, that compared to Europe (or at least Spain) it is almost free to take your license and it is very easy. I still have nightmares with my test back in Madrid, the amount of money it costed and the lengthy process.

And here it is like a credit card, as opposed to the paper blanket we had back in Spain.

I am dreading the process to get my Spanish license back when and if I retunr one day.

So, not everything is bad.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And now you get to drive like an italian, or cuban, or dominican, or etc. whatever yo do dont try to drive like a german because no one obeys the rules!

Jaime del Valle said...

Obeying the rules is dangerous here... Isnt that funny?