Bill Joyce

You can stay overnight in your driveway to see how it goes. Unplug it and stay the night.

We used to stay at Carefree Ma We have stayed there in the past. Nice place.

I still remember the time our RV hot water heater was broken and we took cold showers five times waiting for the replacement. That experience took away any desire to do a cold plunge. We should have moved into a motel.

We use a router that supports (WIFI as WAN), which lets you use a WIFI as a source and creates a local WIFI network all our devices know. When we come into a campground we can configure the router for the new campground WIFI and everything works. Look up travel routers like the Gl.inet Beryl AX, $80.90 from Walmart.com, to do this and put the router in the window.

Dedicated hotspot only. I tether my hotspot via USB to my router.

I have not been there, but the Coverage app on my phone shows Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have service in the area

https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/ is where I go to find the best mobile internet information. Providers like Easy Choice can work well and disappear on you if they get in trouble, so be prepared to change providers it that happens. Many go with a Visible (owned by Verizon) phone plan, which is $25/month with an unlimited hotspot, as their main or backup plan.

Glad the two of you are OK.

Remember that a salesperson is there to make a sale. Which carrier is running the kiosk varies by store, not area. In a larger area you can have AT&T at one store, Verizon at another and T-Mobile at a third.

We carry mobile hotspots (Mifi) devices for Verizon (prepaid), AT&T and T-Mobile and most places all three work, but there are definitely places where only one works. Our experience all over the country is that AT&T is the most likely to have usable service when the others do not, followed by Verizon and with T-Mobile being in last place. But we find that T-Mobile is often our best choice for speed and does work in most places. Our phones are postpaid Verizon and we put them on Wifi when Verizon does not have usable service.

When we rented cars in Hawaii we used Android Auto using a USB cable from our phones for navigation. Strangely we don't use it as often in our car, but have. I think it is because the Ford Navigation screen shows more than we see on the same screen with Waze or Google Maps, so we navigate with the phone and keep watch where we are on the Ford screen.

Don't forget Mount Saint Helens National Monument.

This is also our year, but if I remember the "Class of" groups started in 2005.

After seeing how 7-Eleven's run in Taiwan, this does not surprise me. In Taiwan, and I assume other Asian countries, 7-Eleven stores are more full service than in the USA while still being small. Lots of food options, with tables, and you can pay your bills there, including parking tickets.

No contract means they can raise the rate- https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/starlink-for-rvs-now-150-month-portability-for-residential-users-no-longer-an-option/ .

We just did a one week car and motel trip for Christmas and ate at many restaurants mostly for lunch. One in Blythe CA charged $3.50 to use a credit card and had about the same prices as other similar restaurants. A Chinese place in Indio CA was the cheapest of the trip, $7.50 to $8.25 for huge lunch plates and about everyone was paying with their phone or with a credit card.

An alternative some of us on this forum use is Calyx Institutes T-Mobile based unlimited plans - https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet . We are on the Sustainer plan and it is working well in most places, but the new Contributor Plus plan is cheaper and should work at least as well. The places these plans do not work as well are where T-Mobile does not have good coverage.

Can't be moved - https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/t-mobile-home-internet-service-now-out-of-beta-is-still-not-mobile-friendly/

Edge updating for me this morning.

We are also happy with our M2000 plan from Calyx.

It is also possible that Verizon made some changes in your local cell towers or there is a problem with a tower that needs to be fixed.

I had time so I updated my 13" laptop to 22H2 and it all went well. My wife and I also printed with our 15" laptops running 22H2 and had no problems, so we did not have the printer problems that some updating to 22H2 have had. Next time Diane runs her 13" laptop she will see if it updates to 22H2 and that is all the Windows 11 computers we have. All our others are older laptops either running Linux or Windows 10, since they can't run Windows 11.

We made the trip in 2006 with our 40' diesel motorhome, the same one we have now, and our tow car. We were on our own but did run into people we knew, including a couple that are on this forum. We had no problems on the trip and expected to make the trip again, but family matters interfered. We have many friends who have taken the trip multiple times and had no problems. Dennis Hill, who was mentioned before, did it with a 43' Newmar Dutchstar more than once. We are trying to figure out when we can make the trip again.

We have to print a form out this week, so we will see if either of our main laptops running 22H2 have a problem. We don't print often.

I recommend people not use Visible as their main phone number, but those trying to pay the least money will do what they do.