I know I have posted our plans but some of our family and friends still don't seem to understand that it is coming down to the wire. I believe it is actually 76 days until October 1st. Only 55 working days, if we work them all, which I'm sure we won't. Both of us have some things we have to get done and we will not be at work all of those days.
We still have a few loose ends we are trying to tie up. What about personal property taxes assessed here for 2011? The truck license comes due one month before we are gone!?!?!? Transferring insurance to another state!?!?!? Etc!
Our last day of work is Friday, September 30th. Our rent will be paid here through that day and we plan to be ready to pull out of here by noon Saturday, October 1st. We plan to head south and stop at Niangua, MO, at Paul and Brenda's for the rest of the weekend. We have some fall and winter clothes stored with them that we will probably want to exchange for some of our summer rags. Monday, October 3rd, we will start on toward Texas. For the first time in our lives, I don't think we will be in a hurry. Do you believe we can mosey along and take our time........"stop to smell the roses" along the way there?? We are going to need a real attitude adjustment to learn how to do that.
Assuming we can slow down some and stop some place over night, even if it is a Walmart parking lot, we should be in Livingston, Texas sometime Tuesday, October 4th. We plan to stay at the Escapee's RV Park there while establishing Texas residency.
While there, we need to obtain vehicle license plates and driver's licenses, register to vote, do some banking, and anything else we can do to tie ourselves to Livingston as Texas residents. You don't want anything in your billfold that ties you to another state. You can only be residents of one state and we want to make sure that state is Texas. Hopefully by the first of the next week, October 10th, we will be ready to amble toward Luckenbach (with Willie, Waylon, & the boys), Kerrville, and Ingram.
Once we arrive at Johnson Creek RV Park near Ingram, we will meet the people, become acquainted, and start our "Workamper" position. Hopefully, we are quick learners and will settle into a new routine without a lengthy adjustment.
All of a sudden, it is very real to us and I'm sure to some of you also. We made the adjustment to living in the RV relatively easy. We had spent lots of time in it over the last few years. The realization of being several hundred miles away from all of you may take some getting used to. Although, we don't see some of you very often, we were only a short time away if there was a crisis or we needed or wanted to see each other. Now, as of October 1st, it will take more effort and planning to get together, but it is really only a few hundred miles.
It is not only the end of a lifestyle, it is the beginning of our retirement lifestyle and travels. We hope that you won't look on it as a sad time but as a change. Even though we will become Texans, we will be back to Missouri and our friends and family in the spring. We want to have happy times ahead in our retirement and also with all of you guys. It is important to Sharon and I that you go on with your lives and have happy times without our physical presence, but with us in your hearts and memories. We have had the greatest of times together and we know there are many more happy times with you ahead. We love you all!!
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