Transatlantic
Apr. 20th, 2011 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularOh, yeah, the driver's license thing, did I mention that?
When I was in New York over Christmas, I went to get my driver's license renewed. They said they could use the picture of me which they had on file, so I went with that option, as I was feeling a bit grungy at the time.
They sent a letter later on saying that the picture they had on file was no good, and I needed to go back to the DMV office and have a new photo taken. This letter arrived at my folks' place (where I maintain my New York address) two days after I'd flown back to Athens.
So if I wanted a driver's license, I'd have to fly back and get that picture snapped. No, they couldn't accept a picture sent via the consulate; I asked.
Upshot: I'm flying back for Easter. More specifically, I'm flying back to New York tomorrow, and staying there for a week. I'll take the photo as soon as possible, maybe meet up with some people, go to the Stadium for a baseball game (something I thought I'd have to miss out on this year), and basically have a few days to poke around my hometown.
My suitcase is largely packed (and surprisingly empty); my boarding pass is printed. Thanks to insane price hikes, I can't cash in any frequent-flyer miles for upgrades, sadly.
I've got sketchy plans in Europe this summer, including some time where I'll have to be gone for about a week while my bathroom gets remodeled (and presumably my patchily repaired and still-to-be-repaired walls get repainted). So my plans hadn't included being back in New York before next Christmas.
Well, I leave in nineteen hours, and circumstances permitting, after another eleven hours airborne, I'll be there. (Hey, the transatlantic flight took Charles Lindbergh 33 hours, and he didn't cross most of Europe along the way.)
So that's where it all stands.
When I was in New York over Christmas, I went to get my driver's license renewed. They said they could use the picture of me which they had on file, so I went with that option, as I was feeling a bit grungy at the time.
They sent a letter later on saying that the picture they had on file was no good, and I needed to go back to the DMV office and have a new photo taken. This letter arrived at my folks' place (where I maintain my New York address) two days after I'd flown back to Athens.
So if I wanted a driver's license, I'd have to fly back and get that picture snapped. No, they couldn't accept a picture sent via the consulate; I asked.
Upshot: I'm flying back for Easter. More specifically, I'm flying back to New York tomorrow, and staying there for a week. I'll take the photo as soon as possible, maybe meet up with some people, go to the Stadium for a baseball game (something I thought I'd have to miss out on this year), and basically have a few days to poke around my hometown.
My suitcase is largely packed (and surprisingly empty); my boarding pass is printed. Thanks to insane price hikes, I can't cash in any frequent-flyer miles for upgrades, sadly.
I've got sketchy plans in Europe this summer, including some time where I'll have to be gone for about a week while my bathroom gets remodeled (and presumably my patchily repaired and still-to-be-repaired walls get repainted). So my plans hadn't included being back in New York before next Christmas.
Well, I leave in nineteen hours, and circumstances permitting, after another eleven hours airborne, I'll be there. (Hey, the transatlantic flight took Charles Lindbergh 33 hours, and he didn't cross most of Europe along the way.)
So that's where it all stands.
