The Adventures of Bren and Sven

Insurance Know-How

So my fun filled weekend was spent on the phone and online with insurance companies. Being the insightful and informative team that is Bren and Sven, I thought I'd give a few pointers when dealing with the head ache of shopping for insurance. Be prepared to waste hours upon hours of your life when shopping for insurance. Shopping for insurance is just like shopping for a car, it will be taxing on the body and mind, and will most likely be a multi-day event. If you go with the mentality that y...

DMV-Bren’s Turn

Ah the power of an appointment. It may have taken me a longer time to finally get to the DMV (about 4 weeks since our government cant manage it's finances and forces it's employees to take furloughs), but I only had to lose an hour of my life to those mindless, paper pushing, bureaucrats that are the DMV. So this will be a much simpler and shorter post than Sven's, since my experience was just that, much simpler and shorter. I followed these simple steps to alleviate my dealings with the Departm...

DMV recap

So I hoped you found some humor out of my suffering… ha ha. I hope that this post and the original will provide some insight to the licensing process. The biggest obstacle that will be in your way is obviously the DMV written test (or the riding test, if you did not take the Motorcycle Safety Course). If I could offer any points of advice it would be these: If you took the MSC, read over the material given to you (many questions will be in there) Get yourself a copy of the DMV’s Mot...

DMV

Monday (Prior to Labor Day) : I told myself that I would wake up early enough to get down to the local DMV office before it opens and the endless line of monotonous boredom and hopelessness develops. The only problem with this is Sven likes his sleep and I didn’t get to bed at a decent hour. So the eight o’clock hour rolls around and I unwillingly decide to to get my lazy ass out of bed. I come to the conclusion that my local office will not due since it tends to always be busy. Actually busy is...