Connected at last!

My fantasy was to log on every day on tell of our travels and show pictures of trains. I thought every RV park and coffee shop would have quick Internet access. Wrong... We signed up for a week stay at the only RV park around Dallas. I also enrolled in a week of WiFi access. Last night after three hours of logging on and getting bumped off they gave me a refund and suggested I go see AT&T. After finding out the phone companies wanted a 2-year contract in order to provide traveling wireless for the next three weeks, I came back and humbly requested that we try again.

I found that if I'm patient and type in one or two words at a time Tengo (name of the RV wirless) will not bump me off line. Tonight I'm working on two computers. One for routine paperwork and the other for extracting molasses type words to place on the blog. Personally I'm of the opinion Tengo should be Nogo.

Yesterday was a travel day with no stops. Today we drove in to downtown Dallas and visited a beautiful display of trains at the Museum of the American Railroad. They are crammed into a small site with so many trains that you can barely walk around. The good news is that later this year they are moving the entire exhibit to Fair Park, Texas where they will have five times the space.

This museum has two great cabeese that date back to the days of wooden cabooses. One has three bench seats for passengers and an old wood-burning stove. It is the first caboose I've seen that was designed haul passengers rather than crew.

Tomorrow we are scheduled to spend the day at the Ft. Worth Stock Yards. This is restored cattle feeding and shipping area that now houses lots of ole' time stuff including an operating steam engine. They claim to get over 2 million visitors a year. Either it's something to see or Texans just like to look at cows.