Verizon Woes, Naps & Foggy Morning

Tuesday April 3, 2012
Lithia Springs Site #38

  

It’s been a few days since I’ve posted because we are having nothing but trouble with our Verizon Samsung hotspot.  David decided in his wisdom after a fancy sales pitch at the Tampa RV Show Verizon Booth that we needed to upgrade from our air card to 4G.  Not that we had pretty much ever stayed anywhere there is 4g mind you.  We have had nothing but trouble with this device ever since.  We are about 25 miles from Tampa  but somehow this thing cannot keep a connection.  So we spent even more money on an amplifier and an antenna but now the sim card installed in the pantech uml290 will only receive, it will not send.  Yes I know it will only do 3G, I don’t care.  I just want a reliable signal when I am this close to a major metropolitan area.  What good is 4G if you have to amplify it and you can’t??  If Verizon can’t provide decent service in a metropolitan area, why are they constantly advertising 4G and attempting to get even more customers I ask myself.   Calling them every day for 4 days has not resulted in anything but too much time on the phone and the run around.  So…….while we still fight with them over this issue, the blog is being brought to you by the local Brandon office of The Florida Cancer Center.   <rant ended>

 

With the week-end warriors here on Saturday and Sunday, we didn’t do much around the park.   They had taken over the spring and the picnic grounds so we stayed around the coach and by the river. 

 

I spent some time sitting on the bank just beyond Winnona.  There were a number of canoes going up the river but pretty soon they’d be coming back down as the water level gets so low you have to get out and walk.   I even had a beagle spotting.  He too could have walked down the river.

 

 

 

 

 

 

David was practicing his “nap in any position anywhere you are” technique.  He’s preparing for the  instant napping Olympic event.   He’s sure to place at least at the Bronze level.   If he keeps it up he may make gold in  “pretend you are not napping” or “statue mode” categories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When not enjoying the river, napping or explaining the problem to yet another Verizon tech, we were having fun with Turbo Taxing.  Not sure I think this program is worth the money any more.  We seem to have no deductions that amount to anything and owe more with a fixed and smaller income.  How can that be?

 

On Monday I had a lovely early morning walk in the fog.

 

Foggy mornings always look so other worldly.  I feel  like I’m in Camelot or some other fairy land.

 

With the Warriors gone, no one else was out but us early birds.

 

I did run across one rather scary looking creature.
Looks like whoever he chewed up ate nuts.

 

 

The fog lifted and I took the very narrow and rugged non official path from the spring along the river bank to Winnona.

 

I felt like I was passing through the gates to get on the path.

 

 

 

I’ve never been in Florida for the spring before and its flowers are very different from the wildflowers which appear in Virginia.  At least here where I have found no spring ephemerals.  I did see these along my river walk.

 

 

 

 

I also found these interesting.  Wish I could tell you what the names of the flowers are and what these are but my knowledge of natural history and of this area isn’t good enough.  Still I thought they were lovely and worthy of note.  All identifications from readers are very welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to Home Sweet Home.

 

Hope to post next time from my own internet device.  Wish me luck!