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Our New House aka The Trailer

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We finally get to see our new house. We ask if any repairs are needed how this works and are told that if parts need to be ordered this can take a few weeks. So the need for us to stay in the area to check everything out on our own is not necessary as we can get parts at other authorized service facilities across the country (several in Arizona). The inspection check list takes 2 hours to go through. Everything seems to be in perfect working order and we absolutely love it. In hooking the trailer hitch to the truck we find that the safety chains are too short, they provide us for free chain extensions. Also the trailer brake control isn't working. After much investigation by PJ to find the problem, a technician finds the dealer installed tow plug under the dash (all trucks have them they just hide them and don't tell you about them unless you buy the tow package from the dealer, nice...) and he drives to his parts distributor and buys us a plug for $10 and we plug in and are of

In Route to Pick up the Trailer

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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