A Great Saturday after a long week. 2014

We were so lucky on Saturday when Carl & Donna Larson made a visit, they live in Spring, Texas.  Carl is a Past Grand Paton of O.E.S. in Connecticut, we served with him for several years.  We had lunch at The Monument Café a landmark in Georgetown.  There was a 30 minute wait for a table, we had plenty of time to catch up and swap fibs about how great we feel.

There can be no mistaking that this lady is feeling better!  Still walking a bit slow, it will be a few weeks before she is up to running any races!

I have put our 5th wheel on Craig’s List here.  We’ve sealed the deal {wrote the check} on the motorhome.  It would be nice if this sells before we go to retrieve the motorhome from Yuma, AZ.

My biggest frustration this week has been to bureaucracy of the Texas Motor Vehicle Department.  It is their edict that a vehicle must be registered  in the county is was purchased in or the owners domicile.  I bought ‘Subby’ from a private seller in New Brunsfeld. On Monday I will have to make a 150 mile trip to pay the sales tax and get my plates.  It will be much worse with the motorhome, I will have to take that to Livingston, which is far south Texas.

Because of this foolishness, I’ve been researching registering in South Dakota, as many RVer’s do.  I can do the whole deal for about $150 and pay only 3% ‘sales’ tax vs. 6% in Texas!  Still researching, it appears that we do not have to change our mail address or domicile.

On the right is the 1st draft of the logo we will be using with regards to our Mexican Connection trip next year to Kino Bay, a big thanks to Mickey Waite for the work she did on this!

We have a genuine Rock Star in our family.  Say hello to Anne-Marie’s nephew, Mike Maier of San Francisco, CA