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Bill Joyce

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.  

  4. 22 hours ago, dennisvr said:

    Great info from all the posters.  I'm planning a trip to Marysville WA and would also like to go to the 3 National Parks so I can mark them off my list.  

    Don't forget Mount Saint Helens National Monument.  

  5. 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.   

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

     

  8. 21 hours ago, RV_ said:

    Bill what's your 4k main computer a desktop or laptop?

    We only have laptops.  The 4K one is a 15" laptop, a Lenovo Flex 5.  I have good eyes, especially after cataract surgery with multi-focal lenses .  Diane doesn't like it the times she ends up using the laptop, though she can see the screen.  Her 15" laptop is 1080p.   My older 15" laptop, a Dell, is also 4K, but doesn't meet Windows 11 specs.  

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