This months RVing adventure was a short 4 days in Parke County Indiana home of 32 covered bridges. Covered bridge may conjure up images of New England but Indiana's Parke County has more in a compact space than anywhere else. They have 5 driving routes of about 35 miles each that take visitors to all of the bridges. Some are still in use while others are just along the road side as tourist stops. Many are from the 1800s with other from the early 1900s and all are in fairly good shape. Visitors can at least walk over them all as well as photograph them in the rural settings. Each fall they have a huge outdoor festival that draws thousands of tourists. Our visit was a week after the festival so things were quite. It is worth a visit if you are in the vicinity with your RV. Turkey Run SP offers great camping for all types of RVs.
Other topics this month include numerous topics presented by listeners via email including reports from Australia.
This months feature is about the changing landscape of wireless internet. Data access is important to most RVers these days for at least email and usually much more. With the vast increase in the demand for data (anything beside voice communication) by cell phone users (all of those Apps), cell companies are struggling to keep up. How does this effect you, what types of service is and will be available, which carriers are best, and alternative to cell phone are all discussed in this feature.
Finally, we would like to invite listeners to follow us on Digg.com. Digg is news source with a difference. I regularly find interesting articles about RVing that I would like to share with listeners. The once per month format is not conducive to sharing breaking news so I have been looking at Digg as our option. I am sure that you don't want to get Tweets or Facebook updates from us, but by using Digg, listeners can get the latest RVing info in a very non-intrusive way. I regularly "Digg" stories that I find interesting. You visit the Digg website and become a "rvnavigator" follower. From then on, the stories that I find interesting will be on your opening screen (along with any others that have been dug by people you follow). This is a very nice way to see what someone else is reading without being obtrusive. No emails or other notifications, just links to interesting web based content that you can choose to read/view/listen. There is no personal information shared. You’ll never have to read that I am at a Starbucks for breakfast or how I dressed for Halloween.