Monthly Archives: July 2015
They Keep Changing The Rules . . .
Something I forgot to mention last night in my blog post about the Wyoming Division Model Railroad we visited yesterday. In Monday’s blog, I mentioned that according to the newspaper article I posted about the layout, it had 45,000 feet of HO track.
I thought that was an amazing amount of track, and once I saw the size of the building, big as it is, I knew that there was no way there was 45,000 feet of track here. When I mentioned this to Verryl Fosnight, the owner, he chuckled and said the writer of the article got a little carried away and added a zero.
He said they had about 4500 feet when the article was written with about 5300 feet now. So a little over a mile, instead of 9 miles. Certainly makes more sense.
Another thing we thought was neat was this bronze statue of Merlin in the parking lot of the shopping center in Sedona where Szechuan Restaurant is located.
Not exactly how Merlin is normally pictured, but it’s interesting, none the less. The reason it’s there is that it’s really an advertisement for the sculptor who has a studio there.
Jan and I headed out about 1:30 this afternoon to have a last lunch at La Fonda, right down the road from the RV park. It doesn’t get much better than this.
Since they’re closed Sunday and Monday, and are closing early on Saturday, we probably wont’ get a chance to got back before we leave on Monday.
After all, we do have other places we want to eat before we leave.
Because they keep changing the rules, leaving La Fonda we headed over to a nearby gun store to see about getting an Arizona Concealed Carry Permit to replace my expiring Utah permit that I will not be able to renew.
Because they keep changing the rules.
Jan and I are South Dakota residents, and first got our South Dakota CCW ‘s back in 2008 on our way back from Alaska. And it was Easy Peazy.
We just walked across the street from our mail service, My Dakota Address, to the courthouse and filled out the one page FBI background check form in the Sheriff’s Office. Then the next day we went back, and with the forms coming back clean, gave the Sheriff $10 and he gave us our temporary permits. About a week later our permanent permits showed up in the mail. Like I said, Easy Peazy.
Then in August 2010 while we were at Nick Russell’s Gypsy Journal Rally in Elkhart, IN, I took a class to get a Utah non-resident CCW given by a rally vendor. The only reason I did this was that I picked up about 5 additional states that I could conceal carry in as we traveled around the country. I didn’t realize at the time how important this would become.
The SD CCW ran for 4 years, so when I went to renew it in 2012, I found the rules had changed. I was now told that to renew my CCW I had to reside in the county for 30 days and then produce a rent receipt, utility bill, etc. to prove this.
The kicker is that even if we had been in SD, we couldn’t have fulfilled this requirement, because rural Lake County, SD has NO RV parks within the county. I guess we could park on the courthouse square and run an extension cord into the Sheriff’s Office, but I’m not sure that would work.
But, hey, I still got my Utah CCW, right?
But then they changed the rules.
A couple of days ago I got my mail in from My Dakota Address and found a letter from the Utah Department of Public Safety telling me how to renew my Utah CCW that expires this coming August. It said I could renew my CCW online and it would cost $15.75. OK, again, Easy Peazy. Until I read this little gotcha toward the bottom of the page.
It said that due to a recent rule change (see, there it is), if I reside in a state that has reciprocity with Utah, than I must have that state’s CCW before I can renew my Utah CCW. And SD and AZ do have reciprocity.
I believe this is called a Catch-22.
My buddy, Nick Russell suggested I see about getting a Arizona CCW since they no longer require a course or test of any sort. I had checked online and just got confused because in one place on the Arizona State Government site it says they do require a test, and another place it says they don’t.
And stopping off at the gun store just made things worse. The guy there confirmed that no class or test was needed, but that they (the store) required people to take a ‘shooting’ class, and that the next one would be given July 28th.
Well, that’s a lot of help! And I’m still not sure what the ‘store’ has to do with it.
So tomorrow I’m going to head over to the Sheriff’s Office to see if I can get things straightened out.
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Thought for the Day:
Women like silent men, because they think they’re listening.
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