Thursday, June 22, 2023

Water? Check. Power? Check.

 

We moved the motorhome out of the storage unit and onto the RV pad there.  Put water onboard, with some bleach to start the sanitizing process.  I cut back some spiny brush near the pad.  Plugged in the coach and started checking out the systems.  Most important: got the A/C going.  While I worked outside, Joan was busy putting stuff away inside.


 Another blisteringly hot day; the A/C felt good.  Tomorrow, it will be putting more food onboard and hooking up the cargo trailer.  The rest of today will be back at the house, getting it closed down.

I had a couple minutes while Joan was finishing up, and decided to check the data speed on my phone.  Since changing from Verizon to Visible, the only time we got a reasonable try-out was in Buckeye during the winter... and we were right below a large communications tower and some major powerlines.  That definitely interfered with our data signal.  Today, I was connected with 5G and...


258 megabytes per second download speed?  That's really good.  We didn't see 5G at the RV park in Buckeye.  I'm hoping it was stay strong like that this summer.  We'll see.  The limitation with Visible is in their unlimited data usage when using the phone as a hotspot.  They put a 5 mbps cap on the data speed.  I can live with that as long as it is consistent... again, we'll see.  Having good data has been pretty consistent for us with all those years of Verizon.  We took advantage of each speed increase as the equipment got better.

Back at it here at the house.

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Closing up the house, room by room.  And all around the exterior.  By 6:00 pm, we are as done as we can be until it is time to load the last of our personal stuff (including Ruf's stuff) into the car in the morning.  Put down the last of the hurricane shutters, turn down the fridge, shut off water, and lock the front door on the way out.  Alarms and cameras set.  Maybe we can make some miles before the hottest part of the day.

Looks like we will be dealing with triple digit high temps for days.


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