Are You Living It?

Last week I discovered it takes USA Cycling up to one week to grant an International License. Applying online isn’t sufficient enough - you also have to send it a copy of your passport and sign a license agreement document and then snail mail it into their office in Colorado Springs. I found this out Thursday. Luckily I made it to the Post Office in time to send it via Priority so their offices would receive it before the end of the workweek. ($16 bucks plus $90 for the license)

I anxiously waited for the confirmation - you can print an authorization to ride from their website once the paperwork has been completed and use it in lieu of a license. Thankfully that went through yesterday. I arranged a carpool with Tela and Ian Crane for the venture to Vancouver on Wednesday and sat down to double check to make sure I can register for Gastown prior to Wednesday and MISSED REGISTRATION!!!

CRAP!

A quick email to the registration link and admittance of being a bonehead… and luckily everything worked out and a nice Canadian named Kim let me in. ($60 CAN for registration.)

Total cost to get to Gastown? $166. And that’s just for stinking license and stuff.