"In and out fast"....yeah, right!

5:55 am - Tuesday - July 30th - LPG&RVR - 55° F, humidity 59%, wind 2 mph out of the southeast.....less smokey skies today, no clouds, with a forecast high of 86° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were in Long Beach, WA....aptly named....a single named beach that is 28 miles in length.....

 TLE and I began the renewal process for our California driver licenses a couple of weeks ago online.  You can't do anything at the DMV in person unless you've already gone online and started the process.  Being able to go into the Alturas DMV in person to renew vehicles registrations was one of the things I loved about living in rural America, but the California bureaucracy has taken that simple pleasure away from us.  It seems the urban DMVs are so crowded they are forcing everyone online, even in remote, rural areas.....government's one size fits all mentality.

Anyway we had done all of the online stuff including uploading the required documents to obtain our California Real IDs, and, according to the email that would get us "in and out" of the DMV office more quickly....

...note that no where in the email does it say we must bring those same documents into the DMV when we are ready to complete the renewal process.  It does say, however, that uploading, and getting pre-approval of these documents will 'get you in and out faster'....well it did get us out faster, because they wanted the local DMV personnel to 'see' those documents in person, as well.....doh!  We left home around 9 am, with Charles and Phyllis to get to the DMV early so we could 'get in and out fast', but that was as far as we got....lol.  Now I need to print off those documents, and return next week to complete the process....government spoils everything it touches.

After a couple of other quick stops in town we were on our way back to LPG&RVR.  We did stop off at the food truck in town to get some fresh Mexican food, before completing the return trip.

Charles and I wanted to play golf one more time before TLE and I go back to work on Tuesday, so we headed over to the Clubhouse around 11:30 am to snag a 12 pm tee time.  The girls joined us once again.  We decided to play just the back 9 this time, and were on our way up the fairway after hitting our tee shots just before 12 pm.  I managed to bogey the 10th hole with a long par putt, then drove the green on the par 3 eleventh hole getting a par.  I bogeyed the 12th hole, and really messed up the 14th hole with a triple bogey, but then things turned around.  As you know the par 4 fifteenth hole is a sharp dog leg to the right, and if you can cut the corner with your tee shot you can really shorten the hole.  My tee shot was perfect, and my ball ended up just past the signs which direct carts to the left of the hole....

I circled the ball in red....

....I was less than 20 yards from the hole....my best shot ever on this hole.  I chipped on, just missed my birdie putt, and got par.  Next up was the par 3 sixteenth hole.....122 yards....I hit a 6 iron, and dropped the drive onto the green about 10 feet past the hole.  Once again I just missed a birdie putt, but got par.  Two pars in a row, and I hit both par 3's in regulation.  On to the 17th hole, a long par 5.  I was on the green in 4....a little disappointing, but get this.....I sank a 25 putt for par!

Finally, the par 4 eighteenth hole.  I hit the longest drive I've ever hit on this hole and found my ball right at the 50 yard marker....

Right next to the 50 yard marker!

....I hit a nice pitch over the sand trap, and onto the green, then two putted for my par.  Once again I parred the last 4 holes, and 5 out of the 9....a nice way to end three days of golf!

Since we had eaten lunch we didn't have dinner, but did spend a couple of hours with Charles and Phyllis discussing our winter plans.  As we walked home we saw this amazing sunset....the smoke is finally dissipating......

....thanks for stopping by!