Apparently Dennis Rice didn’t have as good a road trip with his technology as I did. His power inverter kept over heating for starters. I’ve found power inverters to be flaky too but I use one every day in my car so that’s the one we took on the trip. I understand it’s flakiness!
Then of course there was little or connectivity. Little or no 3g. Little or no wireless. Lots of the country isn’t there yet and the problem is economics. It’s tougher to built out the infrastructure with fewer customers. That argument works for 3g. It doesn’t work any more for wifi. My hotel experience was different from Dennis’. They had wireless Internet in the rooms but they didn’t tell you that. You had to figure it out for yourself.
Dennis’ experience mirrors past experiences of mine. That’s why I’m a nut about testing everything before I get in the car. I was testing our DVD players, GPS and PS2 in the car the night before we left for about a 1/2 hour. The PS2 in particular was a lifesaver. It gives the illusion of activity versus passive DVD watching. Thank God we don’t own a Wii. Someone would have been unconscious in the back seat trying to play that on the road!
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