Continuing the Black Hills ...

As soon as we arrived in South Dakota we made inquiries into the registration and formal transfer of the motor home. From our research  before the trip it had not appeared to be an issue.
In Alabama we were advised to do the registration etc in South Dakota as that is where we have our postal address.
Imagine our concern when we discovered that to register the motor home we needed to have either a US social security number or a South Dakota drivers licence - each of which requires one to be a US resident!!
Ron made inquiries - thank you Doyle!! - who advised us to contact the Driver Licensing Program in Pierre (capital of South Dakota).  The outcome was that we needed to first be cleared by the Federal Govt. to apply for a South Dakota drivers licence - so copies of our passports and visas were faxed off to the powers that be.
Trevor was 'cleared' to make the drivers licence application ... I am still awaiting clearance!! Thank God!
Once we had notice of Trevor's clearance we immediately went to the licencing office. We thought that Trevor would be 'given' a drivers licence!!!! No!!   He was required to sit a written test and do a driving test!  Much nervousness as it happened right on the spot.  And - he passed!!
So off to the court house in Rapid City with all the papers and Trevor the proud owner of a South Dakota drivers licence - we could not have been happier to pay the 3% sales tax and registration. Our new South Dakota number plates are on the RV!   What a guy!!!!

That all took about 10 days.
Then Jim the RV guy came out to the lake to look at the levelers only to find that we were out of hydraulic transmission fluid.  But when that was corrected the problem still persisted so we had to have a part sent out from the Tiffin headquarters in Alabama.  That was fixed last Friday (17 August).  Jim also noticed a couple of issues with the sway bar and a spring on one of the front levelers  was catching.  He recommended we have those things  seen to so we  booked the RV in to Eddies Truck Centre and had those problems attended to.

Have a look inside our new home.  It is very comfortable and has everything that we can possibly need and more.  We are still finding new buttons and gadgets that we didn't know we had.

In the mean time we were enjoying all that the Black Hills has to offer.

Bob, Ron's cousin, took us south one day to Hot Springs and beyond.  We went through Buffalo Gap - as you would remember from wild west movies. Bob and Margaret (Ron's mum who also came with us that day) shared many memories of their days in those parts of the Black Hills.  On our way back we went through  Custer State Park and got close and personal with some of the wildlife.