Friday March 2nd
For some reason we were both kind of crabby today so we decided today was the day to go and see Verizon about getting our mobile wi-fi service. I wasn’t expecting this to be a very pleasant encounter but Dustin, our salesman, was so good at his job that he talked us out of an additional $70 per month and we left smiling. We added the mobile wi-fi device to Cathey’s contract with 5Gb of data per month for $50 and also bought another dohickey that converts our home phone to a cellular service for an additional $20/month. That will save us from reactivating the phone at home to TDS or Time Warner and lets our home phone travel with us when we are traveling.
Then made a brief stop at Best Buy to buy a cable for my camera. I have been taking pictures but failed to bring the right cable to download the pictures to my computer. The Geek at Best Buy sold me an USB SD card reader so I can take the card out of the camera and read it into the computer. That’s good until the camera battery goes dead and then I will have another problem. I was shocked to learn that despite the cable for the camera being the same size as other cables, all camera cables are unique to the brand of camera. No standardization for camera cables like there is for phone cables.
So after dealing with all that, we had a nice lunch at a place called “The Paradise Bakery and Café.” Then drove out to Lost Dutchman State Park just a few miles north of Apache Junction. There wasn’t much there to look at except great views of the mountains. The park is mostly a campground and starting point for several hiking trails that go up to the Superstition Mountains. The campground there was pretty nice, but like most state camping facilities there are no sewer hookups.
When we got back to the trailer we did some preps for moving tomorrow – we will be going to the Cactus Country RV Park on the E edge of Tucson. That is a place that we stayed at 3 years ago and enjoyed.
Went and filled up the Suburban before it got dark. Gas was $3.89/gallon; hope it doesn’t get too much worse or we will have to start hitchhiking!
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