Thanks, Christina I will try to take it easy until 6 pm"ish" today and much of tomorrow. Then it's whirlwind, I'm afraid. Total whirlwind! One good thing that was actually MY idea was to take a TGV train from Paris to Barcelona instead of a flight. During that trip (6 hours) we can sit back and watch the French countryside go by, with coffee or a glass of wine and meals. Barcelona (if we can get there due to covid-19 issues) may be eliminated from the trip. Czech Republic will be as rough as it comes (family/friend visits, looking for apartments, etc.). We also go to Munich, Germany to visit his brother who is quite ill. Never a pleasant kind of visit! When we get home, it's going to be insane.

My car's title does include my mother. She co-signed so I could get the car loan. [I was 25 back then.]. When I go to the DMV (early in the morning), I'm going to go with everything possible, including my mom's death certificate, the title, a copy of my translated marriage certificate (the title has my maiden name and I was married in Europe), an old passport with my maiden name, etc. Hopefully they won't have to deal with my marriage certificate again, though. My married name is a bit complex. Since I was married in Czech Republic, my Czech married name is slightly different than my husband's family name. Women almost always have the letters "ova" or "va" added to the end of their husband's name in Czech. It means "of" or "belonging to". An example is the famous tennis player Martina Navratilova vs. her father's last name Navratil. My marriage certificate explains this. In the US, I use my husband's family name without the "ova". In Czech Republic, my passport will still omit the "ova", but everyone there will add it, anyway and pronounce it a bit differently.