Escaping Normal: Fueled up, ready to go!

Well everyone I made it to Ontario safe and sound, and after a few setbacks I finally got my licence and insurance and car. I haven't quite settled in to the flow of the unemployed, or should I say the lack of one, but that'll soon be taking a backseat to this amazing trip.

Just a note to anyone planning to move to Ontario from any other province, for the love of goodness get a department of motor vehicles approved record of when you were first licenced. The problem I had was that my Nova Scotia licence only had the date that I had my NB licence converted over, which was March 2010. No problem right? A full licence is a licence isn't it? Unfortunately in Ontario it isn't. If you have a licence from another province (even a full licence, for provinces with graduated licence systems) for less than 2 years you actually get issued a G2 licence, which has a whole slew of restrictions on it. So I had to prove I was licenced for more than 2 years to get the full G Ontario licence. This involved lots of legwork and driving back and forth from home and the licencing centre, but that is all done now.

The trip still isn't close to being officially started, but I just wanted to show off the car that I am currently in possession of. Basically it's a short term lease from a friend of my Uncle who owns a car dealership. I get to keep it for the summer, and return it in September when I go back to school. At that point it's likely easier to take public transit to school.

It doesn't have a name yet, and I don't know if I want to name it, but for now it is only known by it's technical name: a 2002 Pontiac Sunfire 4 door SLX!