While in Tennessee visiting my Grandmother, we took a side trip and took a tour of the Jack Daniels Distillery. Great tour. Somehow I managed to walk away with a case. Not sure how that happened, but I blame it on getting intoxicated just smelling the stuff as we took the tour. Kids slept good that night!!
Kevin, I have been to the Jack Daniels plant and it is located in a dry county of Tennesee. How did you get that case or should it be a secret??
Gary
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2002 Honda CRV Toad
Lolly the Wonderpup (Miniature Aussie)
Satellite Internet is really not practical anymore. You can get excellent internet coverage using air cards from your cellular provider. I happen to use Verizon, which I REALLY like. It's rare that I can't get on the internet. I'm paying $59.99 for unlimited data service.
Satellite requires you to purchase a dish that takes 20-30 minutes to setup each time or you can purchase a auto-tracking dish, similiar to what you use for satellite TV, except it cost a few thousand $$$$.
My recommendation is to purchase a air card service either from Verizon or AT&T. I prefer Verizon.
BTW, you can also do like I do and purchase a broadband router, like the Kyocera KR2 and plug the aircard into it. Now you can share you internet service to multiple computers either through Wifi or by cable. I have 3 laptops, network printer, and my kids xbox and Wii that all connect via wifi to get internet access. Cool stuff.
Kevin & Angela Behrent
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2006 Corvette C6 Convertible - Toy
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Laura is being a bit easy on herself. I noticed a definite crease in that sidewall where she kissed the sign. Not deep you underdstand but enough of a crease that she has taken the pressure off of Bigdog.
Honey, I didn't "kiss" the sign. I went right up to it and gave it a good whack. Get it right. *laugh*
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'04 Skyline Nomad 250LT
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Umpteen sheep who don't travel at all
Kevin, I have been to the Jack Daniels plant and it is located in a dry county of Tennesee. How did you get that case or should it be a secret??
Their legislature passed a bill allowing Jack Daniels to sell collector bottles. I was able to purchase bottle of their 1954 Gold Medal from Brussels, Belgium and their 1981 Gold Model from Amsterdam. The bottles are the same as they were when they won these awards.
Yes they are a dry county, but only because they don't have a large enough population to overturn the prohibition. I believe it's Federal law that a city needs to have a minimum of 1,500 registered voters to appeal. They unfortunately only have @300 people. That is why the Tenn Legislature passed that law using the loop hole of collectors items. They are only able to sell these two bottles.
Well, the Mini Rally was so much fun, I was wondering if those of us who are somewhat local to the Seattle area would be interested in getting together more often than twice a year. I'd be willing to organize something around New Years if anyone is interested then. I know many of us go down to Arizona at that time but for those of us who are left behind, it is kind of a slack season. Of course, I'm open to suggestions if the New Years timeframe isn't appealing. I just think it is sad that we only get together twice a year. We have such a great bunch of people!
Oh, and not to leave out our Oregon friends, we could even hold it somewhere near Portland, like, say, at the Columbia Riverfront Park or something.
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We would be interested in more rallies. We're never able to go to the mini rally because we are usually traveling at that time. New Years or other weekends would be fine with us.
Our Northwood Owners Group RV rally has technical seminars at the Northwood plant. I vote we have Kevin do an electronic/communication seminar at our May 2009 rally! Not too technical for us dummies--just info on how to stay wired with stuff that doesn't cost more than our RV.
Linda and husband Dave (retired US Army) W7DDW
Jake, the 86# Black Lab "kid"
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2003 DODGE 3500 SLT Quad Cab, 4x4, SRW, HO CTD, 3.73, 48RE, Jake Brake
kbehrent wrote: Satellite Internet is really not practical anymore. You can get excellent internet coverage using air cards from your cellular provider. I happen to use Verizon, which I REALLY like. It's rare that I can't get on the internet. I'm paying $59.99 for unlimited data service.
Satellite requires you to purchase a dish that takes 20-30 minutes to setup each time or you can purchase a auto-tracking dish, similiar to what you use for satellite TV, except it cost a few thousand $$$$.
My recommendation is to purchase a air card service either from Verizon or AT&T. I prefer Verizon.
BTW, you can also do like I do and purchase a broadband router, like the Kyocera KR2 and plug the aircard into it. Now you can share you internet service to multiple computers either through Wifi or by cable. I have 3 laptops, network printer, and my kids xbox and Wii that all connect via wifi to get internet access. Cool stuff.
We went with an AT&T aircard, mostly because AT&T has a stronger signal than Verizon at Lake Easton. My understanding is that as far as number of towers are concerned, AT&T has slightly more than Verizon, with Sprint being in third and T-Mobile trailing far down the list.
The other difference I've been told, although Verizon's EVDO coverage area is larger than AT&T's 3G coverage, the Verizon fallback is much more precipitous dropoff than AT&T's EDGE network.
Which is better for you depends on where you're spending most of your time.
We got the Cradlepoint CTR-350 router to provide access for both laptops simultaneously.
rvlady wrote: Our Northwood Owners Group RV rally has technical seminars at the Northwood plant. I vote we have Kevin do an electronic/communication seminar at our May 2009 rally! Not too technical for us dummies--just info on how to stay wired with stuff that doesn't cost more than our RV.
Great idea, I wouldn't mind doing a little demo on how our internet is setup. Maybe David could do a demo on how to get that map to appear in our signature block.
We have John, David, Tom and Kevin that all I believe make their money to support the RV habit with the new age computers and all that other technical stuff. I bet between them they might be able to make us a bit smarter than we are at this time. Many of you probably do what I do and eventually get things to work by many long hours and then finally get your 13 year old grandson to fix things. We did that this weeknd at the mini rally and by golly he solved the problem.
Since we are on the road quite a bit its hard for us to say if we can or cannot make a gathering but if one is planned we will sure give it our best shot at attending.
Laura, you have a PM coming....
Bob
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