There was no blog last night as there was no Internet. More on that later!
We packed up the remaining items on Tuesday morning and hit the road around 1100. There was about a 20 mile drive to the interstate, then about 100miles of interstate and another 20 miles after that to the campsite.
As we got within a mile or so of the campsite we started getting the feeling that all may not be well. We were on a 4 lane divided highway with commercial buildings all around. We found the campsite and drove in and the first impression was OMG! the roads were narrow and the campers were packed in like sardines. We checked in and found that our site was one of the larger ones! As we left the office I asked about the Internet…. the news was not good. They had the maximum size service possible, but there was still not enough capacity for everyone at the site 🙁
We had a golf cart escort to the site, just getting there was an adventure with the road being only just wide enough for the trailer and truck wheels. When we got to the site I was convinced that there was no way to back in due to the narrowness of the road, but the owner had the neighbour move his truck and it went in pretty well. Although there was only about 6ft between us and the trailer behind and maybe 10 feet to the one on the side (bit like Barrhaven really), on the side where the door is there was plenty of room, and we were not overlooking anyone.
We got the trailer setup except for the drinking water. A all the sites we had previously stayed at the utility connections were midway down the trailer, here they were at the rear. Our drinking water hose was about 5ft too short. Luckily there was a store about a mile away so we could buy an extra 25ft of hose.
The Internet was strong, we could connect to it easily, log in but no access to the outside world. We tried all night and again this morning…. nada. Only one solution, Lyn was missing her Internet something had to be done!!
I had been researching a solution after the poor service at the last site and pretty much decided what service to get if there were further problems, so off we went to Radio Shack to get a 3G USB stick ( a device that plugs into the computer and links you to the Internet via the local cell phone tower). Got the stick set up, set my computer up so Lyn could access the stick from her wi-fi and all is good.
Sat down after dinner to do some work on the computer and notice it was connected to the Internet via the campground system……. Murphy is alive and well in Florida.