Blog-away!

You will notice that some days we post a few blogs and some days none at all. I don’t write the blogs as they appear (several at a time). The key is that we have to have internet service to post the blogs, so as Rip is driving along, I write the blogs, usually one a day. Then we watch for somewhere to check our email, post our blogs and sometimes make a call on Skype or check for information on the place where we are heading – hail to this modern age! Some days we find a connection easily; other days none at all.

The first travel purchase we made was a book called, The Next Exit, which has proved invaluable. You look up the state you are in and the state highway you are travelling on and then you can see each exit, and not only the exit and where it goes, but also the gas stations, restaurants, hotels and motels, campgrounds, and large stores. It is amazing! It even tells you with a S,N,E,W which way off the highway each listing is located. If the listing is not within view of the highway, Next Exit will tell you how far away it is. Amazing!

We are also grateful to those businesses that offer unsecured WiFi (free internet). Among them are Safeway grocery stores (the most reliable), McDonalds (some of them), Motel 8, and sometimes Best Western. We have sat in many parking lots juggling for a spot to pick up a good signal!

I have to run no - Loosey Lips told Rip that a Cabela's Outdoors Store was at an exit up ahead - it isn't up ahead any more!