They can see you everywhere you go

Wow... simply forwarding your mail flags you as an escapee. We forwarded our mail to my parents while we took on the 10 day cross country road trip from South Florida to California. Our mistake was to have no official address for almost two weeks. Our credit cards wouldn't work... ok, yes, we're are still using some of modern societies conveniences... try paying cash for fuel at 1:00 am in the freezing rain. The bank got a notification from the post office so it took me about 1000 miles to figure out that I needed to use my parents zip code at the pump... who knew. 

We had a temporary address in CA for a couple of months while we got organized with the boat project... more on that later. But, Broward County got wind of our movements and have cancelled our our homestead exemption... yes, the house is still a major anchor, but renting it out for the season helped us to get going.

In essence a simple disconnection from the norm has caused a huge headache, mail forwarding loops, banking issues, tax issues etc. Even though we're returning home for a several months this summer to get the house rented and build up some funds... it seems like the simple things we take for granted like mail, can cause all sorts of flags to pop up with the authorities if you make a simple change in lifestyle.