Out of Touch

It's the weekend, and as usual in campgrounds, more people have arrived. Evidently they are all trying to use the internet. We haven't been able to get a connection most of the day. This is especially problematic since there's also no Verizon signal.

Somehow Ken's phone was able to display that he had some voice mails. We decided to drive out to where we had a reliable Verizon signal--over eight miles. It turned out that Hawaiian Airlines was trying to reach us to change part of our itinerary. Because of schedule changes, we had only about 50 minutes to make our connection in Honolulu. We thought that would be plenty, but the airline wants an hour and a half. Guess they know best, so they re-booked us on an earlier flight out of Lihue.

Meanwhile, we're still trying to make a reservation via Airbnb for a place in Seattle for a couple of nights while we visit with Blake and Terri and Molly. Two places have declined our request, saying the dates we wanted are already booked. Guess they don't update their availability calendar on Airbnb. Now we have another request out. We really wanted to get out to where we could get our email to check if we had a reply from the host. After waiting all day for a reply, we're feeling discouraged.

This evening we were able to get on wifi again. We are acutely aware of how important having an Internet connection is to us, especially with no phone signal. It's a trade-off, of course, and we do enjoy rustic campgrounds so ....