Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Blogging On The Go


Blogging On The Go
From Palo Duro to Red River, New Mexico

We are SO going to enjoy this trip!  John can listen to his MP3 player and read his history books; I can lounge around looking at our photos and writing the blog.  You guys are gonna LOVE IT!

Whoa, there, girl.  Not so fast.  You just thought you were gonna blog online.  Guess what?  No 3G signal to be had anywhere in New Mexico except Albuquerque.  Even though we have the MiFi, and it sends a strong signal, and the computer receives it loud and clear, if there is no 3G, there’s no internet connection.  Not even on the iPhone.

Aargh!

So, besides blogging, how am I supposed to handle our personal business, like paying bills and putting our Dish satellite service on vacation hold or check account balances?!  We even have to drive from our campsite beside the trout stream at Junebug campground INTO the town of Red River to get enough phone signal to call AT&T.    

I’m sitting in the van trying to stay connected to the AT&T agent to figure out the problems, and John is strolling through town taking in the ambience.  Sigh.

The third agent I go to without having the call dropped tells me New Mexico isn’t the greatest connection state they have (in a whole lot more words than that!)  However, going through Colorado should make for pretty good connection, and should definitely have no problems in Yellowstone.

She was right about Colorado, but Yellowstone has been a whole ‘nuther story...


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