Day 13- Pahrump, NV

Whoopee! We're back on line with the blog again! It required nearly an all day effort and the purchase of a new laptop computer, but here we are! Let me tell you how the day went. We all slept a little late, I didn't get up until Geri did; don't know why, just felt like sleeping. Don took me for a nice walk around the lake, including some duck encounters that went OK. They boarded the truck then, and Geri tells me that they went to the Verizon store in Pahrump to find out why our computer couldn't get on the internet with the Verizon modem. The guy there told them there was a problem with the modem, and they should get the customer service people to get them a new one. He also told them about a computer store in Pahrump that sold refurbished computers very cheaply, which intrigued Don, 'cause the old Toshiba has been around for five or six years. So, they visited the place and Don found a Dell that he liked, so they went home with it.

Once they got back to the rig, they spent half the afternoon on the phone with Verizon people, talking about their problems with the modem, but not getting very far. They finally wound up linking the new laptop with Geri's iPhone, and getting back online that way. Boy, am I glad my paws are too big for the computer keys; I don't think I could put up with the complications involved in getting my observations published. Anyway, so far Don has gotten the text of the blog transferred from the old laptop and published on the blog. Photos yet to come.

After dinner, which was all warmups from the fridge, they had to return to the money machines to see if they could do better than they did last night. They came back pretty early, and again Don seemed pretty pleased, Geri less so. Travel day tomorrow, down to our old home in Vegas! See ya then!