Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Note to self and others - update maps


Our trip to Wisconsin’s Peninsula State Park was supposed to take 6.5 hours. I was driving pulling the rPod so 7.5 would have been more realistic. Everything went well - we loaded up and departed without incident. The only problem we encountered was getting through Green Bay. I thought I had mastered traffic circles, but these had two circle lanes and one continuation lane. The extra circle lane was intimidating. It is bad enough if you are using the continuation lane to watch for someone coming from one circle lane, but the additional lane was more than I could process safely. We did navigate the many roundabouts without a problem. The difficulty was that the sections of the intersecting highways must have been redone since our car GPS system was loaded and we made multiple passes without finding how to get to where we wanted to go. An hour lost and much stress. Cindy came up with a solution - turn on avoid expressways. This left us with older roads and a longer route with many stoplights, but a workable solution. Update your maps,


No wifi in the campground except at the concession stand which I have yet to locate. I also can’t get a cell signal which kind of makes the emergency phone number in the camp brochure of little value. Cindy has one bar and gets text messages. Maybe she can send a text if we have an emergency. 




Desperate wifi people



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