I want to spend several months (at least) on the Baja peninsula. Cell service is spotty and net access is iffy and of unreliable quality. Some campgrounds have wifi, but for a fee and for limited hours of operation. The same for net cafes where they exist. Starlink would be a solution, but I refuse to give any money to Elon Musk. So, it looks like my choices are:
2. Stay in larger towns with better service instead of secluded areas
3. Don’t go to Baja
None of those are appealing at the moment.
Vince Distasio - iconoclast extraordinaire - rode his bike to spite the oil companies.
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He'd recently had his 1972 Hornet repainted a spiffy two-tone orange and white a year before he died. His vitriol and unwillingness to Keep Up w The Joneses went unnoticed.
I've accepted that I'm willing to pay more for most things to avoid shopping at The Martz (Walmart), but it's mostly cuz of how the place *feels.* Kinda creepy, yuh know? As if the place is friendly to "pussy grabbers" and those kind.
After two too many winters on Darby Wells Rd, I'd suggest biting the Starlink bullet. He'll not notice your boycott and you'll have a better time. But you may be more principled than I.
Maybe Two Happy Campers have a suggestion? It snowed last night & today was COLD. It finally daened on me: the advantage of a van over an SUV is "indoor plumbing!"
As encouragement:
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For what it's worth, #1 is sensible! We enjoyed life just fine before "Can you hear me now"
ReplyDeleteDo what you want to do & deal with the problems as they come up...just like everything else.
ReplyDeleteBeen down Baja twice in the past 3 years, once with Starlink and once without. I'm still working so I need to connect, and Starlink allowed me to sit on the beach and work. But I also took a Garmin Inreach both times and used that to text with my family when I was out of signal and couldn't be bothered to set up Starlink. Also had a cell booster which made a difference a couple of times on beaches where the signal was marginal. My general experience is that campgrounds don't charge extra for WiFi, but of course if you're not wanting to stay in any towns, there's generally no WiFi on the beach campgrounds. (We tend to stay in campgrounds at beaches even though we're in a van.)
ReplyDeleteCampgrounds with WiFi that are also pretty places / in pretty places: Romanita in Loreto (walking distance to town), Don Huerto in Mulege (camp spaces in a fruit orchard), the cafe at Campo Archelon in Bahia de Los Angeles (beach campground in a place with zero cell service), Pariso Misonal in San Ignacio (walking distance to the square).
Good info. Thanks.
DeleteI can get along without ya for a few months if going to Baja is that important to you. Got to do what is best for you, after all.
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ReplyDeleteI took my own advice and checked w Two Happy Campers; they like Starlink. Their answer is next to last in this list.
https://twohappycampers.com/all-your-questions-answered-a-qa-with-us/