Turk--what you guys have to go through in CA to register one of these cars is something that reminds me of the routine we often would go through when we made port at a new destination in Mexico, Port Capitian,at the harbor, Migration,get papers stamped,then Banco,usually they were on the other side of town from the harbor, back to the Port Capitian, pay fee,get papers stamped,back to Banco, then Migration get papers stamped again,pay fee, then up to the Port Authority, get papers stamped(PA was usually in the same building as Migration)---finally back to Port Capitian, have passports and travel permits for all crew stamped, when you left you just had to have the PortCapitian stamp your papers and passports. Some ports were easier than others to check in and out of.
And I thought my encounter with WA DMV was bad
Glad It wasn't CA now