Most of Yellowstone does not have wifi. Neither is there any cellular phone service through most of the park.
When we want to publish posts to our blogs, we prepare the posts in advance. Then, as we are exploring the park, we include in our plans for the day a stop where there is cellular phone service and where we can use our phones’ mobile hot spot feature.
We found a really good spot on the second floor of the Old Faithful Inn lobby area.
The cord to the phone is not necessary for mobile hot spot use. It is a USB cord that is being used, in this case, to provide power to the phone from the computer battery.
Since we are away from internet access so much this trip, we are using Windows Live Writer to prepare our posts and are scheduling some posts to automatically publish in subsequent days.
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I am constantly amazed at the ways we use to stay in on-line touch these days. It is a far cry from the phone that weighed half a tonne and was connected at the shortest distance from the front door. Calls were considered expensive and needed an operator to connect them, so we talked for THREE minutes! I am enjoying my armchair holiday with you>
I’m glad that you are able to keep us updated while on the road.
I am off on a five day trip from tomorrow and if everything goes well, I may just get myself a laptop for future jaunts. I can access email from my mobile phone and that should suffice for the trip but I wish that I could blog and visit the blogs I regularly visit, while on such trips.
Have I told you that I envy you, your mobility?
Grannymar – Before Karen and I got married (in 1972) we rang up $75 in long distance phone charges, which we had to pay in installments after we moved across country. A couple of years later, we had one phone call that should have cost that much — I was in Scotland and she was in Connecticut — but the bill got lost. Yellowstone National Park still has phone booths because most of the park is a no cell phone zone.
Rose – It’s been interesting trying to keep up. Karen has been doing a better job of updating her blog that I have mine.
Ramana – I hope that your trip went well.
We went to laptops in 2007 for the express purpose of being able to get online while traveling. We also got a satellite dish system at the same time for internet access, but we had a bigger camper then. With this small one, we have made every effort we could to limit the quantity and size of things that we take with us and the satellite system had to go.
No you had not told me that. Our traveling has been something that we have always done to one degree or another and it was part of the plan for early retirement that we continue to do so.
I think that we may have to do it more often, though. We don’t have scales with us, but I am almost positive that I have lost some weight on this trip and I wasn’t even trying.