We made it to Lake George, New York, in the evening yesterday.
My $65 GPS system worked, but I got confused a few times as to what it was saying, so we made some wrong turns. As a result, a couple of “why are we using that damn thing when we have perfectly good Mapquest directions” arguments broke out. That was par for a fairly stressful day.
(This is Angela. Don’t tell Richard I hacked into his post. Heh… I just wanted to let you know that we turned around so many times that we ended up turning around twice…when we were already going the right way!)
Where to start…
First we left late. Saturday in Bangor was nothing but thunderstorms, so we had limited ability to pack things up and put the signs up (We’d spent $150 on two large decals to put on the sides of the RV that say “WirelessTrips.com”). So all that had to be done Sunday morning.
And, of course, we were up very late Saturday night, which means Sunday we were operating on less than optimal amounts of sleep.
Getting the Internet connection set up was a bit of a chore, though that was entirely my fault. It works fine for me, but I couldn’t network our two PCs together so Angie could share the connection (thus avoiding having to pay for two accounts). I struggled for quite a while with no luck. But in the mist of my preparations for Hara-kiri, I realized I was hooking up without a crossover cable, which is a special Ethernet cable you need if you are hooking up just two computers (I know enough about networking to be dangerous). We’ll have to find a Best Buy and get one of those cables. In the meantime, we’ll just pay to have two accounts.
And then to top it all off, no cellphone service. It seems odd, since we aren’t in the real wilderness here, but we got nothing - not even a few bars. It could be the fact that we are using T-Mobile. I’ve heard their coverage isn’t good in the boonies, but I wasn’t sure I believed it. Well, I guess it is true. My fancy phone/photo solution for updating the trip photos won’t work, so I’ll need to build the pages manually. I’ll have new photos up later today.
But despite all this, I had a great Father’s Day haul. I got a nice, handmade blanket with a map of the USA on it. A CD of the original 1938 radio broadcast of War of The World (I’d never heard it before), a Guiness cap, some shirts, and my best present - a 15G IPod.
With some sleep, the perspective of the next day, and an IPod full of tunes, things look a little better for today.
More later…
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