My Ugg slippers ... Paul gave them to me for Christmas ... warm sheep's skin with the ability to slide on and off easily ... and rubber lug sole for walking outdoors ... with the temperatures that we've experienced camping early in the spring, these have kept my toes warm and comfortable with the ability to slide on and off and to go outdoors ...
The Verisimo coffee machine ... expensive coffee capsules and a bit hard to find (might have been better to try a Keurig machine) ... but wonderously easy to make a fresh cup of coffee (or two or three) in the morning (when we're connected to electricity ... draws to much to use when we're dry camping and running on battery) ... and so easy to clean up ... a real joy when compared to dealing with coffee grounds from the French press ... however, Paul does not feel that it makes a "ballsy" enough cup of coffee, even with dark roast ...
John and Paula gave us this spice collection ... it is a bit like having a spice cabinet in a single metal container ... gives Paul all the spices he needs for culinary creativity (except the bottle of fish sauce) ... and travels so well, so compactly ... and, they gave us a backpacking spice container for all of the other spices that we might need ...
We've nicknamed this device "Jeti" ... it is a portable Verizon hotspot ... the carrier for our mobile phones is ATT (not the greatest coverage in the West) ... and we both have iPads and laptop computers ... this little MIFI allows us to connect up to 10 devices ... it is lightweight and easily portable ... we can turn it on in the car if we need to look up something (like a camp ground) ... and we can use it when our campground (or hotel) doesn't have WIFI access ... we do purchase an amount of data per month, and there have been a few months when we've not used our allocation of data (unused data does not "rollover" from month to month) ... it has made posting of this blog possible when we did not have WIFI through the campground ...
Perhaps the most amazing technological achievement has been Paul's effort to connect his Surface (portable computer) via HDMI cable to our flat screen television with an integrated sound system (surround sound in our speaker system) so that we can stream HBO Go and Netflix directly to our television. Yes, a luxury, but one must keep up with the intrigues in Westeros (Game of Thrones) ...
I am sure that there are many other items for which I should have an "attitude of gratitude" ... and many other people who have in part supported this trip ... but I wanted to take a moment to recognize some things that have made this adventure a bit more delightful ...
1 comment:
Brent has a Keurig in Poway, but we report the same problem - no cartridge packs that we have yet discovered that brews a cup strong enough for our liking...Not even Pete's.
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