After 3 months, I'm so thankful to have my car legal and on the road again! Someone asked me where I would go first when I could drive again. I predicted it would probably be the grocery store (since grocery shopping trips have been the times when I've missed my car the most). But, once I got the plates & put them on the car, the first trip was to the office. Blessed convenience of making a quick trip rather than having to plan for a 1/2 hour walk to the office, time there, and then another 1/2 hour walk home! Next week I'll go back to walking for most of these in-town trips, but this week I'm enjoying the privilege of driving my car.
The not-so-happy news was that they can only give me plates valid until 1 month BEFORE my visa expires and I can't get new ones until I get my new visa. Since my visa expires the 31st of December and everything is closed around here until at least the 3rd of January usually, that means that we can't start the registration process (which takes at least a week) until the offices reopen after the holidays. So, theoretically, I'll have to do w/o my car for 6 weeks every Dec/Jan, unless I somehow receive a visa valid for longer than a year or register the car in a Romanian's name. Not going to worry about this for now...November is still a ways away!
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