I want some coffee!

... or not! We had been warned that vehicle sales - truck, RV, passenger car - is nuts right now. Takes a long time and there's a lot of finger pointing going on: the dealer was slow getting paper work submitted; the state is short staffed; there are errors in the paper work; there is a rush on vehicle sales; bla-bla-blah. I had assumed the issue was the state not getting things processed but after a visit to our local MVD service location here in Benson (a private business with a contract from Arizona MVD) I'm not so sure. It appears that Lazydays RV managed to transfer the title for our old Arctic Fox travel trailer to themselves immediately. So far, however, they have not gotten anything accomplished to get the title, registration & license plate for our Vegas RV into our hands.  A friend in Key West who is a 9-1-1 operator says law enforcement all over the country are aware that registrations are delayed- just go. Not so sure I want to do that. We think we will have to ...

We went for a ride in the Vegas in large part to measure for ourselves the noise level in the cab from engine and road noise. We both have sound measuring apps on both Samsung phones so getting some data should be easy-peasey. Almost. If you want to make an objective evaluation of sound level while driving by using an app on your phone, you better remember to turn on the damn app!! We were each so involved with learning to use the Google Maps routing function as an experiment we totally lost the bubble! Even without the numbers it was clear we needed some sound deadening. Well... ok. 90.3 dB is probably an exaggeration. But it's loud ! As an aside, I started using Garmin, Magellan and other marine nav systems in 1988 when they were LORAN-based. GPS was still a USAF-managed research project (I think I recall that it started life as a DARPA project). Now a GPS receiver is in every smart phone and that phone probably has Google Maps. Getting from where you are to where you want to go ...