PJ & Shelly San Carlos Bound

We are scheduled to pick up our trailer on August 7th In Iowa. We will head to South Dakota on the 5th (a 10 hour drive from Colorado) to arrange licensing of the trailer and to obtain our driver's licenses. Then we will cross over to Iowa (a 4 hour drive) and begin testing all the components in our new home. We have a 28 point checklist so the testing may take a while. We'll see...............

Here are a few things we have found frustrating over the past 2 months; living out of suitcases having the personal items with us packed in boxes but who knows which one or where knowing we have an item but not knowing if it is with us or in storage in Arizona not getting regular mail not always having wireless internet connection relying on a mobile GPS system for finding addresses, locations, businesses, etc. and it being incorrect waiting for our trailer (estimated completion of 8-10 weeks and it has now been 14 weeks) An eye opener for us has been in not having a residential mailing address some companies and service providers will not provide us with their services. For instance, when we decided to open a bank CD at a new institution for us, we were not able to. We had to open the CD at our current institution as they could verify our mailing address was not a residential address and per the Patriot Act this was not permitted. Coordinating getting all our bills digitally has not

We received word yesterday that the trailer has arrived in Des Moines - yipee! We experienced some frustration when we couldn't figure out a way to get a cashier's check from our banks in California to either us or to the trailer dealer. There aren't any reciprocal relationships between the credit union in California and those in Colorado and there are no Bank of America branches in Colorado, only ATM locations. We did get it figured out after many phone calls and 'the check is in the mail'. We hope to get word that we can pick up the trailer early next week. PJ is now working on installations we need on the truck for towing the trailer.