No Verizon. The Camp Wi-Fi works for the news. We don’t really need the news. It doesn’t work for email.
Not only does lack of Wi-Fi and cell service matter for work and email, now it matters for birding too. It never did before, but now we have digital tools. With the eBird app, we can make contemporaneous entries on our phone to record what birds we’re seeing right as we’re seeing them. If we’re not sure what bird we’re looking at, or what birds we should expect to see, we have diagnostic tools right at our fingertips when we have Wi-Fi or cell service; and we have Wi-Fi and cell service practically everywhere we go. Something we never had for all our lives, and now constant contact matters more and more every year. We have Alexa at home; the Amazon Echo, home helper. Every question or request has to start with “Alexa” to alert the machine to pay attention to what’s coming next. Want to guess how many times Alexa’s name has been called out already this trip?
Saw Rufous-crowned sparrows.
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