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January 6, 2011
11:23 am

Bob Steele

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Jenine and I own a 2006 Fleetwood Southwind and do a coule of "big" trips a year. We love the life! I found Geeks on Tour by looking for some help with Picasa, a great product but not intuitively easy to understand. Your videos brought it all together. Thank you very much!!

We are going on a 30 day caravan to The Canadian maritimes this summer and Im trying to decide the best plan for staying in touch on the internet. Any ideas?

January 6, 2011
12:15 pm

Bob Brown

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Bob Steele said:

Jenine and I own a 2006 Fleetwood Southwind and do a coule of "big" trips a year. We love the life! I found Geeks on Tour by looking for some help with Picasa, a great product but not intuitively easy to understand. Your videos brought it all together. Thank you very much!!

We are going on a 30 day caravan to The Canadian maritimes this summer and Im trying to decide the best plan for staying in touch on the internet. Any ideas?

Welcome to Geeks On Tour and the Forum, as Good sam members we have enjoyed geeks on tour for about a year now.

Jim and Chris have done a lot to help our "Picnic Table User Group". If you in the new england area be sure and look us up http://massgoodsam.com just email the web master.

Chris and Jim have many great video on staying connected I find the campground FREE connects fit my budget well.

Enjoy will watch for your travel photos.

Bob

January 9, 2011
10:18 am

MrsGeek

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Hello Bob and Jenine.

So glad you enjoy the videos.

We hope to get to the Maritimes sometime ourselves. We look forward to hearing from you when you're there. As for Internet connections – we usually recommend Data Cards from Verizon … but that's a problem in Canada – *major* roaming charges so we hear. I don't know if there is a month-to- month cellular provider available in Canada .. haven't heard of any yet. Hopefully the parks' Wi-Fi will suit your needs. Or, maybe the caravan will include someone with Internet Satellite willing to share!

January 9, 2011
10:52 am

Barbara Dalderis

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Dear Jenine and Bob,

We spent over a month in the Maritimes last summer. At that time we had a Verizon phone. We didn't use it. I beleive you can change your phone plan to include Canada, but we didn't.

We used local WiFi which was widely available at campgrounds and public locations. When on WiFi we used Skype to call home. I also used my Apple iTouch with Skype to call home. Skype to Skype is free, but we paid about $10 whice enabled us to call non-Skype phones.

Have fun,

Barbara

January 9, 2011
11:15 am

David Cross

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Hi Bob and Jenine,

Welcome to this forum. Chris and Jim have been helping us figure out how to use a number of products for over two years now. They are the best. As for Internet access in Canada, we found that most libraries and Starbucks locations had Wi-Fi available. Also, many motels have it. You can usually just pull up close to the building, in the parking lot and get it right in your car. Some parks had it also, but nowhere we went was it real convenient. We found a directional antenna also helped on several occasions. We found out the hard way about using a Verizon air-card. My wife is not really aware of how things work and I'm not very forthcoming with information that she isn't really interested in. I neglected to tell her not to use the air-card and while I was out hiking one day, she uploaded a bunch of pictures to a Costco Web site. The pictures were all full size. I got a call from the fraud department of Verizon, letting me know we had just run up over $8,000.00 in charges from St. John, Virgin Islands. When I explained that we had visited Saint John, New Brunswick and were now in St. John's Newfoundland, we had never been to the Virgin Islands. The gentleman said he would call me back and when he did, the bill had been reduced to about $880.00 but I had to pay that. Be careful. This is a true story. Don't use your air-card outside of the USA and not to close to the border either. You may be getting a signal from a Canadian tower if you are close to the border. We haven't been to the Maritimes for about three years now but you are going to love it.

Day after day as I try to remember, I find my forgetter working better and better.

January 12, 2011
11:17 am

Paul Goldberg

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I have been a Picasa member since the FMCA Rally in St Paul. Just joined today. To take advantage of the Guld's knowledge and contribute some of my own. We have traveled winters since 2002. I continued to work as we traveled and relied on cell phone and whatever connection I could make to maintain my practice as a Financial Planner. I started using campground modem hookups and eventually switched to PDAnet with my Motorola Startac. In a variety of upgrades I now have a DroidX with mobile hotspot and I take advantage of any free campground WiFi, DairyQueen, etc that is made available. With two laptops and the boss being a photographer, 2 GB of traffic does not last a month!. Surprised

As for Canada, we have our stix & brix in Rochester NY 30 miles across Lake Ontario and my wife has family in Ontario so we maintain NorthAmerican Plan on VZW which enables all the phone calls we want to make to Canada and from Canada when we are there. I need to look into the data rate for my DroidX once I cross the border later this year to go to Alaska.

Paul Rambling across the North American continent trying to find the best weather and the neatest things to see and experience. Using Droid X on Verizon to connect when other free access is not available.

January 12, 2011
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Paul,

Good to see you here! I look forward to reading about your experiences.

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