June Summary:

We had a very busy and enjoyable time this past month.  It started out with a trip to South Dakota to establish our residency and get our SD drivers licenses.  We have a mail service in South Dakota called America’s Mailbox that gives us a permanent address. All we do is tell them where we are periodically, and they send our mail to us.  In addition, there is only a 3% sales tax on new auto and RV purchases.

Then we took our travel trailer to Destin, FL to meet with our daughter and her family, who were on vacation there.  In addition, our grandson was able to get leave from the Navy and fly in to be with all of us.  We hadn’t seen him for a couple of years so this was really great!

After that, we traveled to Alabama to visit our friends, Joe & Brenda, for a short visit before going on to Kentucky to go to the Good Sams Rally in Louisville.  We saw a model of the DRV 5^th wheel, complete with the same floor plan, on the floor of the rally.  It was great to be able to see it and go through it.  It made us that much more excited about getting our trailer.  We can’t wait!!!  It should be ready for delivery sometime during the week of July 23^rd.

The rally was really good.  We even saw our former neighbors, Foy and Helen Varner, which was amazing since there were thousands of people there. 

There were also a lot of dealers and vendors so you could see any kind of RV and get all kinds of stuff for it.  We bought a tire monitoring system for our new RV and also an RV GPS, which allows a vehicle profile to be entered including height, weight, length, and width.  The GPS considers all of these vehicle attributes in selecting a route.  This will be very important for us because we will be both tall and long with the truck, trailer, and trike trailer being towed.

Then we went back to Alabama to stay with our friends for another couple of weeks before going back to Texas, which is where we are right now.  We have to go back to TX to deliver our travel trailer to the new owners when we get the call for our new one.