Quick Update

We are now in Murphy, NC, and will leave later today to move down to Blue Ridge, GA, before we really roll on down to Florida.  I don't think I mentioned it previously, but the campground we liked so much outside of Franklin, NC, Deer Springs, had no cellular service at all, not even a glimmer, so the way the park handled it was with Starlink, the business version.  We were anxious to give it a try, and for the most part were very pleased.  We are seeing more and more "Dishy's" in our travels.  The Dishy is the current rectangular antenna that picks up Elon Musk's satellites and provides internet service.  We have been fighting internet service for years, and manage mostly with a Verizon hotspot, and tethering our phones, one on AT&T and one on Verizon.  It has met most of our needs, except we have been to many places out west particularly, but this year even here in the east that have been marginal at best, and streaming is always a challenge.  SL is now the new kid on the block and we are finding most folks are very pleased.  We were too for the most part as I said, but we had an entire morning when we couldn't get any service and another day with on and off service.  Now we have no idea if it is usual, or just an anomaly at the park or just on that one unit.  We have started doing some research to see if it might be a solution for us, with a large caveat, we would have to change our way of watching TV if we did it.  We use DirecTV and mostly it is okay, although the service is going downhill and the prices keep going up.  We pay about $180/month for Direct, and approximately $75/month for our hotspot.  SL is about $135/month, and to watch TV we'd need to use something like YouTube TV which is about $65/month, could we do it, would it be superior, all questions we are going to try and figure out.  BTW, any comments or suggestions on this subject would be welcome.

We have spent the last week here in Murphy at one of our favorite campgrounds, Peachtree Cove.  We love it, it is small, quiet, has large sites with a pretty little stream running through the middle of it.

It is close, 20 miles, to the Nantahala River, an excellent trout stream, so we ran up to see what was what, found the water very low, but Jan gave it a go, and got several bites, but no fish.  It was a gorgeous day, so it all was worth it:-)

We had another errand to run and that was to go back to have Cuban food in Blairsville, it was yummy, I had shrimp, and Jan had pork.

We had a couple rainy days, but for the most part the weather was wonderful, we were able to go walk along the river path in Murphy several times, sit out almost every evening to enjoy a fire, drinks, and cigars, but one of the most important things we had to do while here was drive down to the Atlanta area, 100 miles, so Jan could go to the oral surgeon to see if she would be able to get another implant while we were here in the area.  This for one reason or another has been plaguing her for over 3 years, part of the time issue is just the process, you have to give it time for the bone to heal and the implant to be firm enough for a crown, then there is the impression and the time it takes to get the permanent.  And in her case she went through all of that, but for some reason the implant loosened, so she had to have the implant removed, a bone graft, and the time then to make sure all was well for another implant.  Well we got that done and she got a passing grade!  So next week, this time from Blue Ridge, 20 miles closer, she has a 715am appt to have the implant put in.  Yipes, that's early for a 1 1/2 hour drive, but after all this time she is welcoming it.  So after that, she will have to wait again for the impression and crown and we are hopeful we can get all that done next year when we come back out of Florida.  We ran a couple other errands, picked up some Amazon packages, and finally got back at 7pm.

We went back up to the Nantahala yesterday and found the river even lower, in fact we talked to a local that fishes it more than 200 times a year, and has been for years, said he has never seen the river that low, oh well, maybe in the spring, we'll see.

So last night Jan outdid herself again, this Asian cooking is wonderful, prepared Spicy Korean Stir Fry with beef flankens, and OMG, was it good!

We'll be in Blue Ridge for about 10 days, and we have several projects, and a lot of things to do while there.  We intend to fix our entry step once and for all, install a new sensor for our black tank, paint the roof of the coach, more on that later, get Jan's hair cut, run to Gainesville, GA to get a new circuit breaker for the generator, more on that later also, make 2 trips down to Atlanta, one for dental cleanings and doctor appts, and obviously the one to get Jan's implant, so needless to say we'll be busy.