{"id":32760,"date":"2018-10-12T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32760"},"modified":"2018-10-12T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:00:46","slug":"hoping-for-perpetual-wi-fi-on-these-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32760","title":{"rendered":"Hoping for perpetual Wi-Fi on these journeys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blogging-e1484908296381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32698\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blogging-e1484908296381-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blogging-e1484908296381-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blogging-e1484908296381.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>COPPER BREAKS STATE PARK, Texas<\/strong> &#8212; I was sweatin&#8217; bullets last night, man. You see, I have this streak going that I want to maintain and I feared that a lack of adequate Internet connection at our RV site was going to derail the streak.<\/p>\n<p>High Plains Blogger has managed to post something for 715 consecutive days. We pulled into our RV site near sundown at this wonderful state park, but once we got settled, I found that my cell phone service isn&#8217;t the best, which might have deprived me of the ability to post a missive on my blog.<\/p>\n<p>Never fear. It comes and goes, but it mostly stays.<\/p>\n<p>That brings me to my point. Our retirement journey is taking us hither and yon across the country. We want &#8212; and intend fully &#8212; for it to continue for well past the immediate or moderate future.<\/p>\n<p>One of the aspects of RV park-site shopping, though, will have to include Wi-Fi availability. That also must include cell phone availability. Why the linkage? If I cannot connect to a viable Wi-Fi network, I can use my handy-dandy smart phone to provide me with the &#8220;hot spot&#8221; I need to connect to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>However, if I don&#8217;t have enough cell phone strength, the hot spot is rendered useless. (My tech-savvy sons will enjoy my relative &#8220;fluency&#8221; in this kind of techno-speak.)<\/p>\n<p>So, to keep the blog going &#8212; for better or worse, depending on who&#8217;s reading this stuff &#8212; I need to stay connected to the big ol&#8217; wide world of Internet telecommunications.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I do enjoy parking our RV in more rural settings. However, we aren&#8217;t yet into what they call &#8220;primitive camping.&#8221; We like the amenities associated with most RV parks: water and electricity and sewer service when it&#8217;s possible. I consider one of those amenities to include Wi-Fi service.<\/p>\n<p>I am retired, for sure. I am not surrendering to old age. If my noggin is still functioning and if I can still strength sentences together, I&#8217;ll keep this blogging thing going for as long as I am able.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who say you enjoy these musings, I&#8217;ll do my best. For those of you who say you dislike them, but can&#8217;t stop reading them \u2026 too bad.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPPER BREAKS STATE PARK, Texas &#8212; I was sweatin&#8217; bullets last night, man. You see, I have this streak going that I want to maintain and I feared that a lack of adequate Internet connection at our RV site was going to derail the streak. High Plains Blogger has managed to post something for 715 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hoping for perpetual Wi-Fi on these journeys<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2122,3920,4058],"class_list":["post-32760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-retirement","tag-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32761,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760\/revisions\/32761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}