Anyone tried the new 2720?? It looks awesome.? Also looks like they omitted the 2710 version, and offer only the preloaded maps now.? Works for me!? But I will stick with the 2620 for now.? Especially as I had to buy a new laptop today.
Which leads to why I have been "off the air" the past week.
We are now in Rapid City SD and having a grand time.? We decided to stay here at Happy Holidays RV Resort for 8 days.? We will depart for Sam's camp this coming Sunday.? Have oodles of photos of Rushmore, Needles Highway, Deadwood, etc but will have to wait to upload them until we get the new laptop going.? Goodness how I hate the conversion process to a new pc.
We lost Internet capability when we ran out of Verizon digital coverage in SD.? We can still talk on the Verizon phone network, but they will not allow any form of Internet connection in the non digital areas or areas where they use third party carriers.
Our campground does have a kickass WIFI, but this week our old laptop decided it would NOT allow wireless internet access even though it shook hands fine with the WIFI server.? I could have spent this week wrestling with that problem, but decided I had had it with the "aging" (only 2 years old) laptop.? I cannot believe how fast pc related stuff becomes "obsolete" and begins giving problems.? I am also angry at how the software companies have managed to make it very difficult to move software from one pc to another.? I tried for several hours to reinstall my MSFT Office to the new computer and finally gave up and used the 60 day pre-installed trial version, which means I have to buy another package.? I am sure I will run into similar problems with Norton and Quicken and other stuff.? I may end up keeping the old laptop just so I won't have to buy so much new software.? Got a great deal on an HP ZV6000, with the 64bit Athlon chip, 100 gig hard drive, 2 MHz processing, and lots of other goodies.? But the good deal will get eaten up by the forced repurchase of software.? Ugh.
We love this area and never realized how beautiful the Dakotas are.? I had always pictured them as dreary and drab.? Wrong!? 8 days will not be enough, but we have to move on.
We cracked the big passenger side MH windshield on the way here.? A call to the dealer was discouraging, as they said they would have to inspect it and our warranty would not cover stone damage.? However a call to Newmar gave us a different story.? They said when we reached an area that had a dealer where we would stay long enough to get on their work schedule and also allow 4 to 5 days for shipping the large window, they would cover it under warranty.? I asked about inspection.? They said, "What?? On a coach you just bought 2 months ago?? Don't worry about it."
This is a big reason we bought Newmar.
We also are getting a lot of dings and scratches on the Taurus toad.? So today I bought a used Blue OX shield that mounts on the hitch.? I would also like to find a place that sells those vinyl windshield covers.
It is still early in our young fulltiming life, but so far we can't imagine why we did not do this sooner.
Smoky
