Hi Fellow Escapees
We are from Australia and for quite a few years were spending quite a few months of the year travelling around your beautiful country in our Rv We had our address registered to the escapees in Livingston and our motorhome registered in Texas and all had been going swimmingly until the dreaded covid pandemic hit and we were unable to travel back to the USA.
previously as we were travelling there every year and out Motorhome is stored in Houston it was easy for us to get our motorhome inspected and re registered each year when we got there. Now as we have not been able to get there for the last few years that was not possible.
In the first year that we couldn’t come over I tried when the registration was due to go on to the registration website and tick the box that we were currently out of state so we could delay the inspection until we could return and still keep the motorhome registered. But ever time I clicked that button it would not go through as it seemed to pick up that I was outside the USA and would not let me continue. The upshot of all of this is that the registration has now lapsed. And there was nothing we could do about it from over here
We are returning to the US in August this year and I am not sure now how we can now go about getting our motorhome registered again
we will be getting the inspection done on it as soon as we arrive but now don’t know whether we are going to have problems getting it re registered WIll we have problems with Domicile .? as all we will have is our Escapees address and our passports and probably receipts for the storage company for the motorhome storage while it has been in Houston
Someone that we spoke to said that we might have to apply for a temporary Texas licence through Livingston
if that is so and we have to travel to Livingston from Houston to get it done can we drive our motorhome after it is inspected or would we have to hire a car and then drive that back to Houston after we get the licence to attend to the registration . I only ask this due to it saying that if you have been out of state you have so many hours to get an inspection done and present it. But if the registration is lapsed I don’t know if this rule would still apply
if anyone has any information that might be helpful to us that would be appreciated it is sometimes all so hard to deal with these things when you are half a world away
