get an international driver's license

http://www.aaa.com/vacation/idpapplc.html?association=AAA&clb_id=212&secure=N

AAA/IDP
1000 AAA Drive
Heathrow, FL
32745-5063

http://www.aaa.com/vacation/idpf.html

• take at least 2 passport photos (usually sold in pairs anyway).
• fill out application.
• make copies of front + back of driver’s license.
• mail in
  -$15 check
  -passport application
  -driver’s licence copies
  -2 original passport photos

All done! Took way longer than I expected. I got my photos at Photo Warehouse, and then went up to the AA here on Albert St. Then I waited for about 20 minutes in the “Licensing” queue, only to discover to get an internationl drivers permit I go to the information counter.

But, it’s all done now. I don’t need it for the UK, but any other european country I drive in will want me to have it – it’s more of a just-in-case type item.

It only costs me $20, and a passport sized photo. All the information that a New Zealander needs is available at the AA. However, I will make one complaint – the AA charge you $20 to go in and process it manually in store, $30 if you post it in (cause of course its more expensive for them to open an envelope rather than have the entire infrastructure of a building for me to wait in), and $40 to handle an online application, where I do all the work (scanning drivers license, and photos), and they just print the stuff out – they receive the data on a file server, and don’t even need to open an envelope.

Way to embrace the digital age, slackers. That sort of stuff just makes me angry.

...the UK I thought I should be able to drive over there. So, I need to figure out how to get hold of an international drivers license.