Debbie got a phone call from Tampa last night, so this morning we packed up and headed out from Mobile to Tampa, Florida. We arrived here around 7pm, grabbed some food, and are now enjoying our upgraded, manager special "suite." It's really not a suite, just a double-sized room with separate areas for the bed and sitting area. Still; a long way from shabby. We expect to be here for a couple days, maybe longer, depending on what happens tomorrow. Weather is very unstable right now; it's been gloomy and raining since we rolled into Florida this morning, and it doesn't look like it will be changing anytime soon, so it's a good thing we have an internet connection and cable in our room.
While we were in Mobile, we discovered something rather interesting: we have more and better options for high-speed internet connectivity in little Prescott, Arizona than we did in Mobile, Alabama. We thought we would have wifi where we were staying, but it turns out that it was just some people running open connections that they secured when they figured out other people were swiping their bandwidth. McDonald's advertised wifi, but it seemed to be non-functional when we tried it. The public library didn't have it and the PC's in the library were so locked down that we couldn't even get to this site. We ended up not being able to do anything other than check e-mail once the entire time we were there.
Observation: If you are driving in the most remote place on earth (say, west Texas) and there are only three cars in a fifty-mile radius, one will be you, one will be in front of you driving 10 mph under the speed limit, and the third will will be parked in your blind spot and you won't be able to shake him without performing some sort of Jason-Bourne-style driving maneuver.
Well, it's been a long day of driving, so we're going to bed.
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