A Day at the BMV – Alum Creek, Ohio, USA, May 13, 2024

We have spent the last several weeks in Columbus spending time with family, my parents have come north so we got to see them again, and we also got the chance to attend two daughter’s college graduation!  Exciting times seeing them pass this massive milestone and I know how excited they both were to be done.  One is finishing up her internship and the other has a job at Wright Patterson Air Force Base doing Optics and moved the Ketterington.  We are so proud of all four of them and now they will all be adulting.  Time for us to move…again.

For us to take off we have waited three weeks for out title to arrive (they promised us 7 days – yeah – no).  They ended up sending the title document via FedEx which we picked up then immediately headed to the BMV.  We quickly found out we needed an inspection.  Really?  Well, OK.  In the end we had to go back and pick up the RV, drive it to the BMV, get our inspection, go get our transfer from the title agency, then go back and get our plates.  And as with every government action $200 later, we were legal and able to take the RV anywhere we wanted for the next 2 years.  It took us from 9:00am to 4:30 but we got it all done in one day!  Whew!  Time for beer!

Overall is had been a very busy couple of weeks where we had squeezed in doctor appointments, completely sorted through our storage unit, and moved it to a place that was half price, done the campsite hustle moving to find an available spot for the weekends, laundry, family events, graduations, and then the dreaded BMV.  I truly don’t know when we would have time to work.  The good news it it’s all done, and we are set for another year of being nomadic.  As nice as Alum Creek State Park was with it’s spacious campsites and nice walking paths we were both feeling the itch.  Our last errand was to look at daughter’s #3’s car and change her brakes.  As it turns out when Ron took it apart, it looked fine and even through we drove over to Newark, her car was fine, and we decided to check it again when we came back though in the fall.

We have been brainstorming ideas of where to go and I think we have decided to visit one of our sailing friends Ben Sr. who just recently got back to the USA and is it Washington, North Carolina getting some boat work done.  We will start with a 300-mile 6-hour trip, stop for a few days in Henry, WA and will take off early Wednesday morning.  We had stopped at hocking hills on our way north and had decided to pass through it this time (as pretty as it was) and make a direct jump to Horseshoe Point Campground.  Ben was a good friend whom we had spent time with in the Bahamas and he stayed with us our first year during the terrible Royal Island Storm event we endured.  We tend to chat with Ben via phone every couple of weeks or so and we were excited to see him in person again since it has been a couple of years.  So off we go…on the road again.  By nightfall, we will be setting up camp in Virginia!