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Date:         Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:07:42 -0700
Reply-To:     Dake Collins <wuwe423@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Dake Collins <wuwe423@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Notes on traveling, internet access and rv parks
Comments: To: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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Just back from another great adventure - a 5,000+ mile meander from Maine to Florida and back in Wu-Wei my '84 Westy WITH NO MECHANICAL PROBLEMS - NONE! Back to the subject at hand - I almost always set the Garmin to avoid highways and toll roads and use the Ultimate Campground site (http://www.ultimatecampgrounds.com/uc/index.php) that Loren mentions to identify campgrounds, usually with good results. On this trip I came across a few places with no cell phone service for miles at a time; a bit disconcerting, particularly  when late in the day I was 8 miles up a dirt road in search of a campsite outside Beckley, WV. I found it thanks to the Garmin. I got out of there a day before they got hit with over a foot of snow.   I carry a good set of paper maps as a back up to my GPS, I also have the LiMBO, Roadhaus and a couple other lists of helpful shops and people. A wise man once told me (on another subject) "It's not the system that counts - it's the back up." Redundancy is good. Dake Wu-Wei '84 Westy ________________________________ From: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 11:39 AM Subject: Re: Notes on traveling, internet access and rv parks RE: Traveling Across The US Great write up Ken, great information. Let me comment on a couple of things.  Ken's experience with cell phone GPS mimics mine.  The cell phone requires data connection for the GPS applications (most of them that is, at least one does not) to work.  The answer is to go to a dedicated GPS unit, all map data is onboard. Another solution for Internet access, assuming yhou have data connection on you cell phone, is to use a small, free program called PDAnet.  A simple Google search will find it.  Downloaded and installed on your computer and smart phone and with the phone connected to the USB port on the computer you will have Internet access.  I was amazed to find this working in the middle of the Mohave Preserve where I had no voice connection at all and just a weak data connection. And for those seeking campgrounds (other than commercial RV parks) there has emerged an incredible file of around 16,000 campgrounds across the US. Free to use online or you can buy the file to load into your GPS or Streets & Trips for $6!  Check out <http://www.ultimatecampgrounds.com/uc/index.php>


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