In Route to Pick up the Trailer
We made it to Sioux Falls, SD in 11 hours, very uneventful. Northeastern Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota is nothing but flatlands, fields, grain silos, and crop dusters.
We made a few phone calls to verify that we could get a South Dakota drivers license without a residential address and were told that this recently changed and that a physical address was now needed. We headed to the Sioux Falls DMV office anyway. We filled out our applications and when we were asked if our address was a post office box and we answered 'yes' they went ahead and processed our licenses. No written test, an eye test, a photograph, $8, and off we went with our new South Dakota drivers licenses good for 5 years.
We drive one hour South to Clark County to renew our vehicle registrations and get new registration and license plates for our trailer (based on us having the title in our possession). We are told if we are to now use our South Dakota address for our registrations we have to drive back to Sioux Falls to accomplish this. We still have a 4 hour drive to Des Moines today. After much discussion and helpfulness on behalf of the treasurer's office staff, we decide to use Shelly's moms address (it is ok if you have an out of state address but not one within South Dakota). We pay a mere 3% sales/excise tax on the trailer. If Sioux Falls permits renewal of registrations via the postal mail next year, we may change our address at this time.
We drive to Des Moines and find the address where we will be picking up the trailer the next day. We find out that the Iowa State Fair started today so the likelyhood of us finding a space in a RV park overnight is nil.
We made a few phone calls to verify that we could get a South Dakota drivers license without a residential address and were told that this recently changed and that a physical address was now needed. We headed to the Sioux Falls DMV office anyway. We filled out our applications and when we were asked if our address was a post office box and we answered 'yes' they went ahead and processed our licenses. No written test, an eye test, a photograph, $8, and off we went with our new South Dakota drivers licenses good for 5 years.We drive one hour South to Clark County to renew our vehicle registrations and get new registration and license plates for our trailer (based on us having the title in our possession). We are told if we are to now use our South Dakota address for our registrations we have to drive back to Sioux Falls to accomplish this. We still have a 4 hour drive to Des Moines today. After much discussion and helpfulness on behalf of the treasurer's office staff, we decide to use Shelly's moms address (it is ok if you have an out of state address but not one within South Dakota). We pay a mere 3% sales/excise tax on the trailer. If Sioux Falls permits renewal of registrations via the postal mail next year, we may change our address at this time.
We drive to Des Moines and find the address where we will be picking up the trailer the next day. We find out that the Iowa State Fair started today so the likelyhood of us finding a space in a RV park overnight is nil.
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