We've moved

Hurrah! Miss Doozie, Miss Kitty, Carl and Patti moved from Dallas to Livingston, TX today!

We were sad to leave our friends at the International Linguistics Center (ILC), but we were thankful to get on the road again.

Miss Doozie has been pretty stationary since April of last year (she made a trip to Lewisville to the shop in May and to the Texas State Inspection Station in September), so I was a little apprehensive about whether everything would work okay. All-in-all, things went okay - we had a piece of chrome that the "sticky" holding it to the bus came loose - it was still held on by a lock mechanism that went through the chrome, so we didn't lose it completely, but it is pretty bent up and scarred.

Carl with Miss Doozie and the Jeerage at Rainbow's End RV Park in Livingston, TX

Carl did a lot of the driving - I drove until we were out of the DFW metroplex and then we stopped at the same rest area on I-45 where we were accustomed to changing drivers in the Penske truck on the way to Houston (and took care of the loose, bent chrome).

We are in Livingston to get Carl made a Texan - which involves registering his vehicles in Texas and getting a Texas driver's license. Ultimately, he will need to get a Texas Class B non-CDL license since each of our rigs weigh over 26,000 pounds, but he has to start with getting a normal Class C license. He will then need to take a written and driving test -- and if we can get them both scheduled this week, he may take the driving test in Miss Doozie. So... he wanted to get some time behind the wheel of Miss Doozie in case he'll be demonstrating his prowess with her later this week!

So, more "to-do's" to get "to-done" this week... we're hoping to get most, if not all, completed!