[GH85Carrera]

Tomorrow we get to go get our "Real ID" driver's license. Oklahoma, like several states resisted the feds decree that real ID style driver's licenses were required, and they delayed. The feds kept extending the deadline. Finally it is happening. Of course the state has lots of reasons for the problems it has made in providing the new equipment and making the new licenses.

We have to bring several things to prove we are really us, and that we still live in the same place. A passport is just one item! To get a passport requires a lot of identification, and should be enough in my book. We have to show something like a voter ID, and a utility bill that shows the mailing address is the same. I have saved several utility bills and we both have our voter ID cards.

We have to make an appointment at a place in a small suburb near the round barn on Rt66 to get it done. The local tag agents are overwhelmed and are not taking appointments sooner than a month out. The equipment and supplies to make the new license is in short supply. It is just nucking futz. It has been this way for over a year.

Our current DLs expire at the end of this month.

The real pain is for new drivers. They are having to make appointments 6 months out. Of course it is all blamed on covid and supply chain issues. Yea right.