INTERNATIONAL DRIVING PERMIT

Not sure - I doubt if it is mandatory as long as you come from a country that issues verifiable driver's licenses. (ThornTree World isn't one of those countries.) Check with Canadian Automobile Association - They issue the permits in Canada - or their equivalent in your part of the world (The ThornTree Automobile Association, I guess...)

Anyway here's a link....

http://www.caa.ca/english/travel/documentation/idp.html<BR><BR>I always get one when I travel outside Canada and give it to the car rental guy and he writes down the number - but I'm a Canadian and we do stuff like that. No one has ever actually ASKED me for one.

Impossible to answer since your country of origin is a secret.

Cheers,
Terry

I should have said, since you don't say which country issued your DL, your question is impossible to answer.

Cheers,
Terry

I am also from Thorn Tree World, and deeply resent the implication here that it is somehow inferior.
If any of you had travelled beyond your back yards you would know that TTW is a wondrous place, filled with happy shiny people.

Well, being the Canadian type, I checked the list of countries in my Int'l. Driving Permit (which I carry at all times along with my Yellow Fever card, two separate Blockbuster Video memberships and a wallet-sized photo of Lester Pearson suitable for framing), and I just couldn't find Thorn Tree World on there anyplace. I take it that TTW is just beyond the big cedar hedge at the bottom of my garden (although from what I recall there's an angry dog on the other side of my hedge, and a canoe turned on its side full of mosquito larvae.) Can't speak for CheersTerry, but no malice was intended toward TTW or TTWians in general - I'm sure you ARE all happy and shiny. Are you happy BECAUSE you are shiny? Or is being shiny a function of being happy? Or the reverse? And is one a precondition for the other? I have always wondered, being only a bit shiny, myself.

Canned Salmon IS a heck of a gift. I rarely receive it but when I do I mark the date on my calendar. I prefer sockeye. And I don't like the kind that has the vertebrae in it. Although someone told me they think that kind is for my cat.

And as for Sirstig's original inquiry...sorry, dude. You have inadvertently started yet another string of Thorn Tree weirdness with a perfectly logical question. But thanks anyway - it's an otherwise boring afternoon where I'm sitting.

The sensible answer is that if your home licence is in English or French then you don't need an IDP. If it's not then one is advisable and possibly mandatory.

Not sure if that's the 'right' answer though.

I'm looking at my TTW passport right now and right under description it says "happy shiny person" so I would surmize that happy and shiny are not one after the other but at the same time. It's my understanding that it is accepted as a drivers license in any country. So my advice is that you apply for a TTW passport.

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So TTW is a province of Canada, eh?

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