South Dakota Residents

We were up early today thinking that I-90 would open by 7:00 AM and we could get to Sioux Falls South Dakota and begin setting up residency. Unfortunately I-90 didn’t open until noon so we lost a day and a half in Minnesota waiting for the storm to pass and the road to open (lucky for us we are now retired).  Because of the lost time we changed our schedule and headed for Madison South Dakota where we visited our mail forwarding service to finalize our mailing address and vehicle registration forms.

We then walked down the street to the Lake County Court House where we visited the Treasurer’s office to get our vehicle registration plates.

We took a few minutes to tour our new residence, Madison South Dakota; it appears to be a nice town and we intend to visit again.

We then drove back to Sioux Falls, SD where we would spend the night.  After checking into the Days Inn we drove to the Drivers License Exam office to see if we could still get our Drivers License.  It was about 5:00 PM so we were worried we might be to late but thought we would give it a shot.   After providing the necessary paperwork (see our previous blog) we were both granted our South Dakota drivers license.

Sandy used two websites to research what was needed to establish South Dakota residency.  MyDakotaaddress.com  and Alternative Resource, they both have very good websites and provide all the information you need.  

We chose MyDakotaaddress based on their price and for the email notification option we preferred for our mail.