Daily Archives: July 17, 2015
Hot Dogs and Catfish . . .
About noon Jan and I headed out for hot dogs and shopping. We’ve both been jonsing for a good hot dog, and that usually means Sonic. We both went with our usual, Jan’s Chili Cheese Coney, and my New York Dog, with mustard, sauerkraut, and onions. Along with their fresh-squeezed limeade, it’s a really tasty meal.
Then it was on down the road to the Best Buy, where I was looking for a new 3G aircard Wi-Fi router. My Cradlepoint CTR-500 that I’ve had for about 8 years has gotten very flakey, sometimes working, but mostly not.
I can of course plug my aircard directly into my computer and it works great. But then I not longer have any Wi-Fi in the coach to connect our Galaxy Tab and Kindle Paperwhites to the Internet. That means I then have to hotspot my Galaxy S5.
The first thing I did was to check with Cradlepoint to see what they had. But as it turns out, they’re out of the small, portable Wi-Fi router business, and only sell big routers for businesses.
So next I checked with the local Verizon store and also struck out. They no longer have anything for a 3G aircard. They would however sell me a 4G MiFi. Of course I would have to give up my 3G unlimited data aircard. Yeah, right!
Verizon referred me to Best Buy and said they would have one, but Best Buy didn’t have any idea what I was talking about. So now I’m back to square one. I found a couple on the Internet but the reviews weren’t very good, so we’ll have to see what else I can find.
Rudy Legett and his wife Carolyn showed up at the site right across from us around 4pm. After catching up for a while in their Foretravel, we all headed out for dinner at Calico County Restaurant.
With 4 stars on Yelp, and the promise of good country cooking, we thought we’d give it try. The place turned out to be Black-Eyed Pea doppelgänger, and very good in its own right.
Jan, Carolyn, and I all had the Catfish,
mine with the Baked Squash and Fried Corn on the Cob.
Rudy, of course, just had to be different, and went with the Smothered Steak.
Don’t know if this is a chain or not, it did have that look, but we’d certainly go back again if we come across one.
We had a great time getting to see Carolyn and Rudy again and hopefully we’ll be able to do it again soon.
Tomorrow we’ve got a 280 mile trip over to West Memphis, AR and the Tom Sawyer RV Park right on the Mississippi River. We’ll stay there for a couple of nights before moving on to the Cherokee Landing Thousand Trails for a couple of weeks.
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Thought for the Day:
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not the sufficient capital to form a corporation.
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