Happy New Year!

Stephen C Foster Culture Center & State Park, White Springs, FL

Happy New Year!  We spent about five days traveling from Markham State Park to Gulf Shores State Park in Orange Beach, AL.  We spent New Year's Eve in White Springs, FL near the Stephen C Foster Culture Center and State Park.  We decided to visit and found a nice state park with museum and campground.  This park has nice hiking and mountain biking trails plus there's also a couple of places to launch kayaks

or canoes to paddle the Suwanee River.  Oh, and the museum has a boat load of old pianos of which a few photos are posted below.

Our actual over-night campsite for New Year's Eve was in a campground called Lee's Country Campground.  It's a great over-niter campground on I-75 just north of the I-10 interchange.  They had a small get-together on New Year's Eve for those of us staying  in the campground.  What we were told when checking in was that there'd be finger food and a gathering of those staying in the park who would like to attend.  Turns out it was a full spread and a full  

house.  And it was good - just like the great company of all the other campers - most of whom were continuing further south.

While the calendar may have changed over, our disgustingly poor luck with purchasing electronic equipment that actually works continues.  We were never able to get satellite TV to work at Markham.  After a lot of trouble shooting with DishTV and Winegard,  

it was determine that our receiver was bad.  No problem.  We thought we'd wait until we got here at Gulf Shores and get a new receiver.  Well, we have the new receiver, and we still have no satellite TV reception.  You know, you have to be retired to have the time to put up with all this crap.  I now know why DishTV always wants to send a tech out to trouble shoot everything.  They're the only ones who'll put up with this junk.  A normal, sane person just wants to bust it to pieces on the pavement.

Oh, and while this may be Verizon 4G territory, I only had to restart our little Verizon 4510L MiFi twice to get tonight's blog written and posted. Yep, that's reliability you can count on (that is, you can reliability count on it not working!) 

I'll stop now before someone - usually me - gets hurt cleaning up busted electronics.

Later, electronics-slammin' David