Another grey,but warm day. I had been expecting a parcel and it arrived today, so off to the office I went to pick it up. When I got there, the couple we met the other day were there, so we got talking again. Turns out I must have met the lady before as we both had week-end jobs at the same chemist shop at the same time! It then transpired that she went onto work full time at the same place Dad worked at!!
Once the nattering was over, we came back to the trailer, and I started to play with the new toy! Simply put it is a WiFi router that can “seek out” WiFI signals at a campground and rebroadcast them within the trailer, plus it will allow connections to be made via Ethernet cable. The last part is what we needed to allow us to plug the phone system in. The other neat trick that the box does is to allow the 3G stick to be plugged in to it, and distribute its internet connection via WiFi. So far it’s partly working!!
This afternoon we headed off to the Florida Aviation Museum, about 30 miles away in Lakeland. On the way there we passed a school that proudly boasted it was 100% drug free….. I should bl**dy well hope so, it was an ELEMENTARY school.
Further along the road we saw the products of a non drug free school. Florida has this great idea of putting its prisoners to work, this group was clearing garbage from the road side. What was really neat, all the prisoners were wearing the old prison uniform, grey overalls with black rings on them, just like in cartoons!!
The museum, with a couple of notable exceptions was oriented towards light aircraft, many of them home built single seaters that you strapped on! There were also many replicas of the old wire and canvas planes from the early 1900’s that people had built just for the fun of it.
We left the museum and headed, where else, to the fabric store and then back to the trailer just in time for a cold front to go through, and dump a couple of inches of water on us.
Tomorrow we’ll be up exceedingly early as the campground has it’s weekly breakfast.