Wednesday, June 2, 2004

FW: trip41

Tuesday.

It's all a matter of perspective. This is the first day I've driven the
Accord. I moved up to a bigger car from the RX-7, to a nice substantial
Honda sedan. After driving only the motorhome and the Jeep for all this
time, the Honda feels silly. It's just a little roller skate. It feels
like we let it down off its air suspension and we need to lift it back up
again, except it doesn't have air suspension.

We could use better internet access on our trips. Sometimes the cellphone
hookup worked, but there were a lot of areas that didn't have cellphone
coverage. The Alpen Rose Park had WiFi. A local wireless internet access.
It was fast when it worked, but it was unreliable. It went out of service a
lot. Clients would let me hook up to their landline phones, but that didn't
work well either. If their phones had multiple lines coming in, I couldn't
get past that barrier. We talked to other motorhomers with giant internet
dishes pointed at the sky. They had reliable access, but they were also
planted in one spot. Those dishes didn't look portable. I expect internet
access to get easier and faster every year. We still need it to be a little
of each.

If anyone knows something we should be doing to get better internet service
on the road, we'd appreciate any help.