Feb 27th - Still Snowing

It is still flurrying snow. Forecast has a chance of snow most days for the rest of the week.

Today we again went to get our Missouri drivers license and to transfer our vehicle registrations to Missouri. I figured it had to go better than the last time.

The drivers licenses were not a problem. One odd thing is that you actually have to wait to get your actual license. They give you an 8.5x11 piece of paper to drive on until they mail you your actual license.

The same building housed the people responsible for the vehicle registrations. We took in the titles and proof of insurance, and we had our "new drivers licenses'. Not enough. We had to go to the county Assessors office and get papers that said we did not owe some type of taxes on the vehicles. Then we had to go have the vehicles inspected. We were in the CR-V. We went to the assessors office and got the paperwork from them. We went to the Honda dealer and paid them $12 to inspect our 2010 CR-V. Then it was back to the license place. Still no go. They would not accept our Tennessee proof of insurance. You have to have a Missouri proof of insurance. I guess you can get some type of temporary insurance even with out-of-state plates. Still no MO plates on either vehicle. The whole thing is a bad joke.

When we transferred our vehicles to Tennessee it took one trip, to one place. When we got our Tennessee drivers license it took one trip to one place.

The TN license plates on our CR-V cost $26/year. We still don't know what they will cost in MO, but we do know that we will have to pay personal property taxes on the CR-V are $245 this year. The taxes on my 2007 truck will be $165/yr. If we transferred our motor home to MO the taxes would be $1,230/yr. Missouri is the land of taxes and regulation! I wonder if traffic deaths in MO are significantly less than TN, because of the vehicle safety inspections. I suspect that it was something that caused dealerships to put a lot of money in politicians pocketbooks so that they could get all the inspection work (and make repairs).

We were going to set up a Missouri savings account, but by the time we got to the bank it had already closed.

I can't wait to see all the baloney that I will have to go through to get my TN carry permit changed to MO. I already know that it will cost at least $130 for the privilege of getting a MO carry permit.

When I get to TN, in the next week or so, I think I am going to go into the courthouse and tell everyone how I enjoyed being a Volunteer. I wonder if I shouldn't send at least a couple of hundred dollars to TN just for the great privilege of being a TN resident for 19 months.

Good evening to all. May God bless you and yours.