The new South Dakotans!

By popular demand (of two people!) I am catching up our blog. After our "moving experience", our next order of business was to change our residence address to escape New Jersey income taxes.  This is possible because our primary residence is now a "rental" and "home" is now the Gus Bus.   After a lot of research, we decided on South Dakota for a number of reasons.  We liked the mail-forwarding service in Madison (they email us every day about what has arrived and will send only what we want to receive.).  So,  we liked the idea that our mailing address would match our actual residence. The main reason, though, was that becoming a South Dakota resident is easy; there is no special licensing for RV drivers and no prolonged actual residency in the State, only proof that we spent at least one night in a campground.


Easterners with new "soy" friends

To reach South Dakota, we devised a travel plan that satisfied Larry's need to work.  We decided to travel on Saturdays and Sundays, then camp during the weekdays before moving on.  Using our mostly accurate, Micorsoft "Streets and Trips"  navigation software, we could plan on arriving at the KOA in Sioux Falls, SD in two weekends and a week.  I call it "mostly accurate" because, being a computer, it doesn't account for the human/canine factors that chronically  make us two hours behind schedule.

Can we eat this stuff?

Our trip was wonderful...the midwest and grain belt are a mystery to us Easterners.  It was vast and lush with the fall harvest of corn and soybeans.  And once again we were awed by windmill farms and passed, on the highway, trucks bearing huge blades.  Our "layover work week" was at a Jellystone park in Minnesota.  It was there (and later at other campgrounds) that we discovered that the week days are quiet and therefore conducive to work and playing with an anti-social dog.  On  Fridays, as we were packing to leave for our weekend drive, these parks started to fill up.  And by Saturday morning when we left, they were packed --awning touching the neighbor's slideout--with noisy kids, loose dogs,  and rowdy adults.  Looks like our schedules was working.

The official changing of the plates!

After all of the traveling and the reshifting of our basement load several times...yes, it did all fit!  We settled in a KOA in Souix Falls, South Dakota.

KB