I called about the bus right away. Wouldn’t you know that to register a bus in Illinois as a recreational vehicle, which means less insurance requirements, it cannot seat more than 14 people, driver included, and must not be the famous school bus yellow. Once the work is done, a state trooper comes to verify and sign something and then the new status can be legally registered.

This led to an Illinois DMV call for confirmation and any other details. By the way, the Illinois DMV site doesn’t contain the acronym DMV; it is cyberdriveillinois.com. Per the guy on the phone. Then, he told me, you search for “specially constructed vehicles.” While yes that search returns some info, it didn’t address the seating and color which the bus salesman discussed. All this makes the already white 14 seaters much more attractive and edges me closer to waiting until we are back in California to actually get one.

I returned to the racetrack trails and a bit of the way through a lackluster ride accepted they were just still too wet. I did circumnavigate the park on the old racetrack itself, during which I met another builder of the park’s trail who told me that conditions get updated on Facebook first. Also there are group rides on Tuesdays at 6. I’m skeptical of attending though because i don’t want to participate in an informal cross country race. He was another who said Palos was good; I’ll have to figure out how to make the drive once things dry up. All in all I guess I had some fun practicing turns.

Thankfully the two of us went out for a spin after I returned. Don’t stop though or you’ll get swarmed!