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03/20/2025

Tax-free registration for your Baja vehicle - learn how visitor.us registers vehicles for part-time Baja residents in Montana, which is like South Dakota, but tax-free - and doesn't require a US social security number.

03/14/2025

Learn how visitor.us helps international visitors to the US register vehicles as an alternative to renting.

12/21/2024

A big thank you to for hosting this energetic happy hour for visitor.us/baja tonight!

12/16/2024

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Had the pleasure of welcoming Ainars from Latvia to our office in Bozeman, Montana!

11/21/2024

Born in different eras, from different corners of the world, their Panamerican journeys converged in my mountain town - all because of a couple of license plates.

Yatabe-san was born outside of Tokyo, Japan, in the late 1940’s.

In his early 20’s, he started a round-the-world tour, riding a Honda motorcycle through India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq.

He came home and life happened - he got married, had kids, and started a career in the restaurant industry.

Last March, after 40 years of work, he turned his 16 restaurants over to his son and retired.

His plan? Enjoy the next leg of his world tour: the top of North America to the bottom of South America.

He flew into New York, where his daughter and son-in-law had a 2022 Toyota Tundra pickup truck and slide-in camper waiting for him, but even with help on the ground from family, Mr. Yatabe could not manage to transfer ownership of the vehicle into his name.

In the United States, vehicle ownership is managed at the state level, not the national level.

And New York State’s registration rules are not particularly friendly to non-US residents.

Mr. Yatabe spent nearly two months parked in the US, unable to transfer the vehicle into his own name.

Within a week of finding visitor.us, Mr. and Mrs. Yatabe were on the road.

Pascal Witschi was born in the early 1990’s near Bern, Switzerland. After a stint in the tank-hunter division of the Swiss Army, he now works for a subsidiary of a multi-national industrial company.

This year, Pascal was granted a six-month sabbatical. For more than a year, he has planned to drive the Panamerican Highway, through North, Central, and South America. And he found the ideal rig for his tour - a 2017 Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck, and slide-in camper (pictured here).

But Pascal struggled to register the vehicle in his name. His friends, and the truck, were in Colorado, which is easier than New York to register a vehicle, but requires a type of visa that Pascal didn’t have.

After a couple of weeks of frantic searching, Pascal found visitor.us.

We registered his vehicle in Montana, and got him on the road in less than a week.

Fate smiled on all of us when Yatabe-san and Pascal independently invited me to beers in Bozeman on the same day.

Mr. and Mrs. Yatabe, Pascal, and Pascal’s friend Lars all turned up at my local bar, Shine, and we shared beers and travel stories for far longer than any of us planned.

As we posed for this picture in front of Pascal’s truck, my mind struggled to take it all in - two people, born half a century apart and half a world away from each other, journeying across North and South America, came to my mountain town for beers at the same time.

All because of a couple of license plates.

04/03/2024

Are you ready to make your American road trip dream a reality?
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visitor.us helps international visitors to the US buy vehicles as an alternative to renting.

09/21/2023

visitor.us turned 6 years old this week, and we couldn’t have done it without customers like .bowles81 from Australia 🇦🇺 by way of Mongolia 🇲🇳, who hired us to buy and register a Toyota Tundra in 2021.

Imagine you run a business that caters solely to international visitors to the US, and a global pandemic breaks out, shutting borders for an unknowable length of time.

If you can put your head in that space, you might begin to appreciate the importance of customers like Sam to keep the flame alive during those dark days.

It was my enormous pleasure to welcome Sam to Montana when he came through earlier this month. 🙏🏼

09/13/2023

Ian and Tina from the UK 🇬🇧 paused for beers Bozeman on their 6-month tour of the States 🇺🇸
Keep enjoying yourselves, and come on back any time!!

08/18/2023

Rene and Magdalena from Austria are on their FOURTH year of full time travel! Earlier this year, they brought their life on the road to North America by buying this RV. I was lucky enough to meet them for beers as they passed through Bozeman earlier this month.
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07/28/2023

The man. The myth. The legend!

Before I met Alex Smith, I didn’t think anyone else in the world cared - or even thought about - helping international visitors to the US buy, register, and insure vehicles.

But Alex cares - a lot! He’s directly helped hundreds of travelers explore the Panamerican, and indirectly helped thousands more via the PanAmerican Travelers Association Facebook group.

This week, I got to meet Alex in person for the first time. He and his family welcomed me and my wife into their home, and while our wives chatted about real, interesting topics, Alex and I nerded out about vehicle registration processes in Vermont and Montana.

Pleasure to meet you, and thanks for the warm welcome, Alex!

With Matt Copenhaver

07/23/2023

Mark and Robbi are having the best time! When their last child left the house, they made good on their plan, 5+ years in the making, to buy a van and road trip across North America. Fell into a few beers with them at my local, which was a great laugh.

07/12/2023

“Yes, this is actually my first rodeo.”

When Aldo from Slovenia told me he would be in Bozeman over the Fourth of July, I knew I had to find another ticket so he could join us at the Livingston Roundup Rodeo.

Luckily, I’ve got friends in low places 🤠

Glad to show Aldo a bit of Montana hospitality!

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