An amazing event occurred this morning. We left the house about 7:40 this morning with Saul and headed to the Transito office in San Pedro Sula to try and get our Honduran Driver's License. You can't get the license until you have your residency card. Today was the first opportunity we've had since we received our residency cards while in the States.
We arrived at the Transito office at 8:00 am. After 3,000 limpira, showing them a lot of forms, being photographed and fingerprinted we walked out one hour later with our Driver's License. We are both now authorized to drive cars, trucks, semi-trucks, buses, and just about any other type of vehicle on the roads in any Central American country. Makes you feel safer doesn't it.
We had the option of going to three days of driver training classes all in Spanish, taking a written exam in Spanish, having to get a physical by a doctor, and then doing the driving test on the road OR we could pay 1,500 limpira each instead of the 480 limpira and get our license today. We opted for the extra money option. By 9:30 we were back at our house.
Rarely does something go as smoothly as this here in Honduras.
1 comment:
Your right... sometimes it doesn't go smooth but... you can drive anywhere now and I feel safer knowing that you two are driving on Honduran roads! I'll be thinking of you guys as you transport teams to and from the orphanages!
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