WHEN THEY TOLD US THE COLD WAR WAS OVER WE THREW AWAY OUR COATS AND STARTED WEARING SHORTS AND TANK TOPS!
Sit down and hold on - IT'S THURSDAY and guess what? Yup, we're back in Palm Springs, and yup we drove all the way from Sacramento via San Francisco today in a rental car (almost 600 miles), and yup Kevin has been arrested in bars dressed like Whoopi Goldberg (twice), BUT THAT'S NOT IT! We finally beat the Russians at their own Cold War game. After months of hearings (some with real lawyers), multiple payoffs in rubles in the back of abandoned nail salons and promises to order more Russian brides for our friends over the internet, we finally got our Siberian transit visas!
Folks, this is a big day in the upcoming 2008 Riding4Beer World Tour (beginning June 10). It's the end of the paperwork nightmare and we now have every document we need from every country. We have visas from China, visas from Russia, international driving permits (with motorcycle endorsements!), World Health Organization inoculation certificates and - most importantly - coupons good in 25 countries for 2-for-1 Budweisers! Oh yeah, and the Riverside County District Attorney even gave back our passports they've been holding in lieu of bond on a year old trumped up charge of identity theft (ok, we did try to use John McCain's Social Security number to cash a check down at the RanchMart - but only once!).
Anyway, the point is that we are CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF (June 10 - don't miss it!) and that's just 12 days from now. In the meantime we've learned a few new travel tricks the past few weeks that will come in real handy on our around the world venture. For example, after renting a car two weeks ago and then driving the length of California and back (around 1,200 miles) we now know to specify "unlimited mileage" in the rental contract next time. Actually it doesn't matter this time because we used John McCain's drivers license number to rent the car, but when we rent one in China or Siberia or Morocco, we're gonna have to use our real names because that's what's in our passports (damn State Dept!). In the meantime it is Thursday - which is Friday Eve - we've got plenty to celebrate and we guarantee the party will involve lots of Budweiser...
Hello San Francisco and Hello Russian Communists! At the Embassy they did a body cavity search on Stacy!
We smuggled in a camera - best pic we got! SUCCESS AT LAST! They will soooo regret giving these to us!
Folks, this is a big day in the upcoming 2008 Riding4Beer World Tour (beginning June 10). It's the end of the paperwork nightmare and we now have every document we need from every country. We have visas from China, visas from Russia, international driving permits (with motorcycle endorsements!), World Health Organization inoculation certificates and - most importantly - coupons good in 25 countries for 2-for-1 Budweisers! Oh yeah, and the Riverside County District Attorney even gave back our passports they've been holding in lieu of bond on a year old trumped up charge of identity theft (ok, we did try to use John McCain's Social Security number to cash a check down at the RanchMart - but only once!).
Anyway, the point is that we are CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF (June 10 - don't miss it!) and that's just 12 days from now. In the meantime we've learned a few new travel tricks the past few weeks that will come in real handy on our around the world venture. For example, after renting a car two weeks ago and then driving the length of California and back (around 1,200 miles) we now know to specify "unlimited mileage" in the rental contract next time. Actually it doesn't matter this time because we used John McCain's drivers license number to rent the car, but when we rent one in China or Siberia or Morocco, we're gonna have to use our real names because that's what's in our passports (damn State Dept!). In the meantime it is Thursday - which is Friday Eve - we've got plenty to celebrate and we guarantee the party will involve lots of Budweiser...
Hello San Francisco and Hello Russian Communists! At the Embassy they did a body cavity search on Stacy!
We smuggled in a camera - best pic we got! SUCCESS AT LAST! They will soooo regret giving these to us!
Normally we just alert our good friend Ray Naggin when you're going somewhere, now we'll have to alert our commrades who still don't believe there's no USSR!
This should perk up their spirits!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just Sayin!
BTW.... We are sooooooooooo jealous
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Comrades, we see you both are going to Russia. Will people think you are there to spy? We know better, the only spying you are going to do will be in some Russian ladies' clevidge. You two silly bastards, you will never change and we cannot help but love you for it. If we ever said anything that offended you we thank you for it!
guy and cary.
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