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From: Ted Heise <theise@panix.com>
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.rv-travel
Subject: Re: Utah Day 1
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 13:35:07 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: My own, such as it is
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On Sat, 3 May 2025 17:04:46 -0500,
  sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
>  We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of 
>  Cannonville, UT at an RJourney park.  I believe these RJourney 
>  parks used to be KOA places, but I'm not entirely sure.  It's 
>  right on Utah 12 and is only a 10 minute drive or so to Bryce 
>  Canyon.  I thought the place was just fine.  Reasonably priced, 
>  with clean bathrooms and showers, laundry, and firewood 
>  available.

I'm curious if you intentionally passed on camping at Kodachrome 
St Park?  It is maybe close to 30 minutes beyond the highway, so 
that could sure be a factor.


>  The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet 
>  service they had.  I've had similar things happen in hotels 
>  with an older laptop I have, but it just would not connect my 
>  laptop.  I contacted their support and they were unable to 
>  assign my MAC address for some reason or another they couldn't 
>  explain.  So I could not use the laptop, wife could not get her 
>  Android to hook up, and I had to log back in with a new Iphone 
>  ever 5 minutes or so.  The hook up to the network was just 
>  fine, but the damn provider they had with the ridiculous sign 
>  on to get to the internet was horrible.  Trying to plan routes 
>  and do all the things we take for granted these days become 
>  very apparent when you can't get on the internet.  Oh well. 

I keep active on my cell phone plan an option to use it as a 
hotspot for just this reason.  It's not optimal, but better than 
nothing if I need to plan routes (car or bike), campgrounds, or 
activities.  My Acadia came with a data plan, so I can use it as a 
hotspot if my phone isn't getting enough signal (two different 
carriers).

I'm a little jealous of your visit to the Escalante Grand 
Staircase.  That's very much on my list, but we didn't have time 
to see much of it when we were there a year ago.  We did get 
distant views from Bryce and Kodachrome, but distant.

Thanks for the reports and the pics!

-- 
Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA