Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Howdy, ya'll!! We Be Texans! - November 26, 2014

We are both trying to get over some pesky colds. Clogged head and a cough. I quess it is going around. But we did get one important thing accomplished. We drove our truck to El Paso, TX and got our drivers licenses. Now I just have to contact Miller Insurance and get insured again as Texans this time. Then get on the good old ACA website and get us some health insurance.

We got up early on Monday, at 4:30 AM. Drove in the dark for the first couple of hours. This was gonna be a fast trip. We took the Phoenix bypass through Gila Bend and on down to El Paso. We saw lots of cool cacti on the way. The desert is really beautiful. It was a long drive, 697 miles. I wish we could have taken our time on this trip. We had friends in Phoenix, Mesa, Why, Organ Pipe, Casa Grande, and Benson. But we were on a mission.

Just outside of El Paso, we stayed the night in an American Best Value Inn...... it wasn't! Got up early and were in line at the DMV at 7:45 AM. We were in there exactly one hour and left with our temporary licenses. Cool!

Heading back home, we did go through Phoenix. That is a big place, and the traffic sucked too. Only 686 miles on the way back. We only gassed up once on the way there, and once on the way back. I got 22.1 miles per gallon, and pretty much cruised 75 - 80 mph all the way.

All in all a good roadtrip. Long but good.

After getting our truck and fifth wheel registered and licensed via mail through Polk County, TX, we were glad that we just had to get into Texas to get our DL. Livingston, Polk County, Texas was 817 additional miles beyond El Paso.

Here is what was needed to get our drivers licenses:

Form DL-14A - APPLICATION FOR TEXAS DRIVER LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION CARD (each of us)
South Dakota Drivers Liscense
US Passport Card
Social Security Card
Proof of vehicle insurance amounts
Two items on mail showing our Texas address on them - I used my Social Security Disability letter and our Texas truck registration
Donna showed our Texas RV registration and had to fill out Form DL-5 - Texas Residency Affidavit (because she only had one piece of mail showing her Texas address)

A photo, fingerprints, and a eye test later, and we got our temporary Texas drivers liscenses.  Yay!!

Today, Wednesday the 26th, Donna is thawing out our turkey, making pumpkin and apple pies, and making a banana pudding to take over to Gene & Cyndi's house for Thanksgiving.

Only 2 more days, till my diet starts!

2 comments:

  1. I bet it is good to have the behind you! You did not mention a driving test, do you have to have a special license for your RV. I thought I read somewhere that this was the case.

    Good luck with the diet!

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    1. No driving test, just an eye test. Just a regular DL cuz our truck and fifth wheel combined weight was under 26K.

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