An Adventure...

This week we had our own little adventure. Our adventure was a trip the vehicle processing center or the VPC, as the experienced car shippers like us call it. We obviously had the whole process planned out and predictably it didn’t work out as planned. Sam had called the VPC several times to confirm that we had all the required paper work for the drop off. They confirmed that we wouldn’t need an appointment and the drop off procedure was fast and easy. We followed all the instructions our red Escape was clean inside and out, nothing was in the car but the approved items, and the car only had a quarter of a tank of gas. All of this was not accomplished without some effort because after all we had just driven four hours with a six year old in the back of the car. After picking up the rental car that we will be driving for the next 3 weeks followed by a gut wrenching drive down the L.A. freeway, we showed up at the VPC bright and early Monday morning ready to drop off the Escape and make it back to Vegas before afternoon Kindergarten started. This is when things started to diverge from the plan. There was already a wait at the VPC and when it was finally our turn to drop off the car we found out we had been misled. Yes, all of our paper work was correct and accounted for, but the car needed to be rigorously inspected and processed by a VPC worker. This took about 3 hours and Laura never made it to school. The red car is now on a truck headed for Georgia where it will be loaded on a boat to be transported to Germany.