Our time to get away for the winter is drawing near!
Our departure date (Dec 1) is a little less than two months away, final prep work is underway and we're starting to get excited!
- Hauled the trailer over to the dealer for it's yearly inspection.
- Early in November, it'll be the truck's turn - inspection and oil change.
- At that point, we'll park our little Zoom-Zoom. We have a Mazda 3 that will sit still all winter, so we'll cancel the liability insurance until we get back in the Spring.
- The IRS paperwork is complete. We use form 8840 to declare that even though we'll be living in the US for the next few months we have closer ties to a country other than the US. We do this so our pension income won't be subjected to US income tax while we're in the US.
- We've arranged with our neighbours to do periodic house checks for us while we're gone.
- I've renewed our various camping memberships.
- I've contacted Medicare New Brunswick to inform them we'll be out of province for several months.
-Next step is to add supplemental coverage to our Blue Cross health insurance plan for our travel in the US.
