Trip to Modesto

It was decided that we should take the trip into Modesto to get a few much needed things at Costco and to make an attempt to resolve Josie's phone problems. It was just over an hour away and it was a very pretty drive through farmland with green, rolling hills and lots of cattle. There were also many orchards along the way. Some were grapes and some were fruit of various kinds. The distance was 54 miles which isn't too bad for an occasional trip - especially if we can keep these trips to once or twice a month.

The first stop was the Verizon store that was in the same shopping mall complex as Costco. We finally convinced them that Josie's phone had problems and they replaced the phone - and the charging cord. This was after three tries at other Verizon locations. Maybe they just got tired of seeing us for the same problem.

After our stop at Costco, we left Modesto and got home around 5 PM. It was great watching the Olympics yesterday with all the medals that were won by the US team. It has helped us to keep up with them with the Distant Network Feed option that costs us a few dollars a month. DIRECTV has this option that provides east coast feeds for the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX) in addition to the west coast feeds. That means that we can watch the games 3 hours earlier on prime time TV so we can see the results before we go to bed. It is one advantage that full timers have since this option is only available to mobile users. I guess somebody could figure a way to beat the system and get it anyway.

It's back to work today at 9 AM so we will have to put off our play time until at least Sunday. Take care...